Child

Starting to learn who I am
The girl I shut down in kindergarten
Is coming back to see me...

Clara Clot is the classroom swat
This lass is always top of her exams
Such an academic ‘...

In darkness, oppressed, null and intrigued,
I know that you’re there, fear and fatigued.
...

son, be safe

please feel loved

and know our creator is good

please understand this...

She is only sweet sixteen
So pure as a fragrant red rose
Unawareness of her future
...

I have been
blackballed
more times
than I can
remember

I guess it is...

"When you become reborn,
A Child of God,
don't let it phase you,
if they call you odd...

Only I have the power to love myself and see the good in me
Yet your actions make me hate myself...

Thirty seconds of static stretching
Tightening her calf muscles & letting go
Then she...

Flat fish are flounder, turbot or plaice
Round fish are not as flat but with a similar face...

I read you ‘Once upon a time’ before you shut your sleepy eyes
I hushed your “Mammy I don’t want to...

Soon after our family settled
into the sprawling estate
named "Glen Elm" approximate
...

Sindy & her sister Patch,
Tiny Tears & my pink plastic watch
The Monkeys book &...

I wish I still had my puppet on a string
Pinochio my favourite toy
My memories of a...

I won't eat that the colours aren't nice
This was said by four year old Billy Price
His mum...

Gone to young
What happened little one
You went out to enjoy the sun

Life ended way...