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If Only

a woman looks back at her life and realises she has over come her problems

IF ONLY If my mum was different If my dad wasn't sad If my sister didn't tease me Then I would be glad If the war hadn't happened and my Uncle Archie didn't die My Dad would be happy And so would I If my sister didn't talk so much and take over each day T...

Fear of the Sea

A family finds the sea in Acapulco unwelcoming

One Sunday afternoon Claire and Llago hit the road to Tlaquiltenango to visit Guillermo Manon and his family who lived close to nature in the woods. Their only source of water was a well. The children loved the spontaneous hammocks that Guillermo made the...

Across the Sea to Egypt

An exerpt from my novel Allauddin.

 A wanton breeze blows o’er the sea,Far away from his place of birth;A colt unbridled, roaming free,A reckless child of sun and Earth;Forsaking gloom and winter rains,Fleeing the lands devoid of light,Across the lapis tinted plains,O how exuberant his fli...

Sonnet on an Ionian Cove

A piece written in Greece in 1996 at the Bay of Pheia.

 Every pebble in its placeUpon the quiet shore,Every bloom I see does graceThese hills a little more.Every tree its fragrance lendsTo scent the summer air,Every bird its sweet song sendsWhile perched I know not where.All this below a cloudless sky,Before...