Monthly Archives: September 2014

So I wanted to write about (gasp!) national identity…

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

…or rather my fractured relationship with it. Inspired, in part, by my job, by my past and by the media… the results were the poem below – ‘english’.  

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English

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

A curious accident of birth, it seems bizarre, and all my days I limp and trip in sensible shoes that never did fit; I breathe a foreign air, I cry too much, I sing for goodness sake there’s something broken … Continue reading →

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Love Poems

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

So I figure if it’s good enough for Donne it’s good enough for me… I’ve been writing love poems for as long as I’ve been in love (with my wife) and that’s a while now; typically these have been little … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 3 (Orbit)

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

falling always hurts or so they say and I fell hard the instant that we kissed and yet we were so high that winter’s day we fell beyond the world and into bliss   in orbit all is calm and … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 2

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

…and so you need to know a thing or two which makes me smile for I have things to say of joy and light and fun and hope and you and why my love grows stronger every day   it’s … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 1

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

A gift I give to you whose life I share Although aware that nought could pay my due Unrivalled joy compels me still to dare And here unwrap my heart, my soul, for you   No loneliness remains, nor stain … Continue reading →

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Splenderous

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

More fabulous and wonderful more luv-er-ly and beautiful more funny, kind and generous more sunny, wise and splenderous more Gillian more Gillian that’s you   kiss kiss

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Film-Star Shades

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

There she stands, film-star shades atop her perfect brow and so she moves and style and grace exude she smiles and all will stop and stare and see – what joy – such beauty; rare and rarefied the air in … Continue reading →

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A Song (Gilly is Better than Everything)

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

A little song I like to sing Gilly is better than everything! she’s better than cake, she’s better than tea she’s better than holidays she’s better than me! she’s nicer than kittens she’s better each day she fills me with … Continue reading →

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Twenty-Six

Posted on September 21, 2014 by juakaliandy

So what does this day entail but more? Yes more of you and more of me and more of us and more of she!   and more of; well… too soon to tell but if… if twenty-six is this (this … Continue reading →

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