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As I See It: Past, Present and Future
As I See It: Past, Present and Future
As I See It: Past, Present and Future
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As I See It: Past, Present and Future

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I write for pleasure and when I feel strongly about something I find it much easier to be articulate writing my feelings down than trying to explain myself vocally. Some of the poems I wrote when my marriage broke down after twenty years are quite dark and depressing, but there is always the golden thread of hope running through which lifts the spirit at the end.
It would be nice to think that readers of my work could relate to some of my sentiments, especially the humour in poems like The Ironing Pile and The Driving Test.
Those of you who are grandparents could well feel the same as I did when my grandson was born in 1996, he was the inspiration for For Leo/
And for all those of you with military connections, please look for Falkland Malvinas, To Keep The Peace For You & Me and Thanks To Wootton Bassett.
Actually having my poetry published at last is a lifetime dream come true for me, and it will make me very happy indeed to have a few readers and for my poems to make them laugh, cry and think.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris UK
Release dateAug 20, 2010
ISBN9781453552094
As I See It: Past, Present and Future
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Jane Willis

Jane has always written, ever since she was a child at junior school, but it wasn’t until the mid-70’s, when she was a wife and mother, that she discovered her talent for writing in verse, and since then she has penned over 150 poems. Sometimes there are long, non-creative periods of time, when, in her own words “my brain goes into standby mode” and nothing is forthcoming, then, for no apparent reason, something happens to kickstart her creativity again. She writes from the heart about her own life experiences and how she feels about past, present and future newsworthy events, local, national and worldwide. She has been inspired to write poems about her family, friends and pets and they all have their own personal favourites, the majority of which are published in this, her very first book.

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    As I See It - Jane Willis

    CONTENTS

    Childhood Memories

    Falklands—Malvinas

    My Plea For Ethiopia

    The Driving Test

    Sweet Crazy Love

    The Light

    Five Years On

    Hanging on in There

    When Words Are Not Enough

    The Alpha Male—

    Protector of his Tribe

    Unashamedly Hippy

    In Sight of Heaven’s Gate

    Putting the Past in Order

    Greathouse

    Shining Through

    When the Chips are Down

    Amazing

    Searching

    Recovery

    The Good Life

    Treasure Withheld

    Christmas Spirit 2006

    Answers to Prayers

    Happy Christmas Gosh 2006

    Love’s Evolution

    The Final Countdown

    Chippenham—

    A Better Place

    Time Passages

    Wishes Hopes and Prayers

    It Must Be Love

    Thanks to Wootton Bassett

    Against All Odds—for Greenpeace

    Biodegradeable Bottles

    Wishes

    The Return—Thanks

    Appreciation of a Father’s Love

    Save It

    Not Enough Love

    Fortress of Love

    Lest We Forget

    It Is Time

    Interval

    If—The Unanswered Question

    Hope for the Future

    Gladly

    Friendship

    For Leo

    Fantasy

    The Day Before the War

    A Child’s Prayer—Those Who Wait

    Choose Love

    Breathtaking

    Blessed by Love

    Bitter Harvest

    Life’s Merry-Go-Round

    Because of Love

    Another Day

    Children of Tomorrow

    The Dimensions of Love

    Love’s Elasticity

    Not Knowing—Marking Time

    Patience

    Star Wishing

    Wishing Star

    Surviving to Live or Living to Survive

    Unite a Nation—

    Bosnia, Ireland, Africa

    The Ironing Pile

    To Keep the Peace for You and Me

    A Woman in Love

    with a Man

    Childline—Lifeline

    The River Of Life

    The Women Of

    Greenham Common

    Is It Any Wonder?

    Love’s Shattered Dream

    The Memory Of You

    Tomorrow’s World

    CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

    OH WHERE ARE THE SUMMERS OF YESTERYEAR

    I REMEMBER SO WELL AS A CHILD,

    WHEN THE SUN SHONE ALL DAY FROM A CLOUDLESS BLUE SKY,

    AND MY FRIENDS AND MYSELF ALL RAN WILD.

    ON HOT SUNNY DAYS WE WOULD SWIM IN THE STREAM,

    THEN ARRIVE HOME JUST AS IT GREW DARK,

    AT NIGHT WE SLEPT SOUNDLY, AND WHEN MORNING CAME,

    WE AROSE WITH THE DAWN AND THE LARK.

    QUITE OFTEN WE WALKED TO THE WOODS ON THE HILL,

    WHERE THE TREES SEEMED TO SING IN THE BREEZE,

    MADE BELIEVE 'TWAS AN ISLAND WITH CASTLE SO FINE,

    SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS AND TURBULENT SEAS.

    ALONG NARROW LANES, WHERE THE HEDGES GREW HIGH,

    WE WOULD CYCLE FOR MILES ON END,

    STOPPING OFF FOR A PICNIC BENEATH A TALL TREE,

    THEN DISCOVERING WHAT LAY AROUND THE NEXT BEND.

    LAYING BACK IN THE GRASS WITH THE SUN BEATING DOWN,

    ALL OUR TIME WAS SO EASY AND FREE,

    WE TALKED OF THE FUTURE, OF DAYS YET TO COME,

    AND THE WAY THAT WE HOPED THINGS WOULD

    TURN OUT TO BE.

    WELL THE YEARS HAVE FLOWN BY, IM NO LONGER A CHILD,

    MY TWO SONS ARE BOTH GROWING UP FAST,

    HOW I HOPE THEYLL HAVE MEMORIES AS HAPPY AS MINE,

    WHEN THEY STOP TO REMEMBER THEIR SUMMERS GONE PAST.

    This was one of my very early poems, written in the late 70s

    FALKLANDS—MALVINAS

    YOU CANT FIGHT A WAR WITHOUT LOSING A LIFE,

    FOR THERE STANDS A WIDOW, WHERE ONCE STOOD A WIFE,

    AND A MOTHER WHOSE SON HAS GONE MISSING AT SEA,

    THAT YOUNG GIRL OVER THERE WAS A BRIDE SOON TO BE.

    A FATHER, A SON AND A HUSBAND, NOT QUITE,

    ALL DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY, AND KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT

    TO STAND UP TO AGGRESSION, AND NOT LET IT WIN,

    IF THE DOOR ISNT OPEN, YOU CANT JUST WALK IN

    AND THEN TAKE WHAT YOU KNOW MUST BELONG

    TO ANOTHER,

    DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THIS WITHOUT CAUSING BOTHER?

    AS THE CONFLICT GOES ON, OTHER LIVES WILL BE LOST,

    BUT WELL WIN IN THE END, WHATEVER THE COST,

    WELL PLAY ≈FOLLOW MY LEADER" AND

    ≈GOD SAVE THE QUEEN",

    FOR THIS COUNTRY IS GREAT, AND IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

    SAY A PRAYER FOR THE WIVES, DAUGHTERS,

    SISTERS AND MOTHERS,

    THE FATHERS AND SONS AND THE HUSBANDS AND BROTHERS,

    GIVE THEM STRENGTH TO GO ON AND TO OVERCOME SORROW,

    TO FIGHT AND TO WIN, SO THAT MAYBE TOMORROW,

    THE FIGHTING WILL END AND THE DYING WILL CEASE,

    AND WELL END WITH A VICTORY, A VICTORY FOR PEACE.

    1982

    MY PLEA FOR ETHIOPIA

    PLEASE HELP TO SAVE A COUNTRY,

    PLEASE HELP TO SAVE A LAND,

    HAVE PITY FOR THE PEOPLE THERE,

    AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND,

    HOW A TRAGIC SITUATION

    IS CREATED OUT OF GREED,

    WHILE LITTLE CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH,

    PATHETIC IN THEIR DESPARATE NEED.

    A MAN HAS LOST HIS BROTHER,

    AND A FATHER HAS NO SON,

    A CHILD HAS LOST HIS FAMILY,

    NOW HES THE ONLY ONE,

    AND ‘THOUGH RELIEF IS POURING IN,

    YET STILL THE PEOPLE DIE,

    THE SMELL OF DEATH IS EVER NEAR,

    AND EVEN GROWN MEN STAND AND CRY.

    SO KEEP DONATIONS COMING IN,

    TO FEED THE WORLD TODAY,

    LETS GIVE TO THEM THE GIFT OF LIFE,

    LETS HEAR THE LITTLE CHILDREN PLAY,

    LET FEAR AND HUNGER FADE AWAY,

    AND LIKEWISE DEATH AND SORROW,

    SO THEY MAY LIVE IN HAPPINESS,

    AND HOPE TO COME FOR

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