Honary metion

ALLPOETRY.COM = Awarded an Honary Mention in a contest for 'The Man You See'.

Gold Award

ALLPOETRY.COM = Gold Award in Contest Achieved with 'The House On The Hill'
on 20th August 2011

Love's Light Shining

I’ve found dark places,
in my mind.
But I’ve seen the
light there too.
You’ve been the light
of my life.
Since the day I
first met you.


You shine your light
in my heart.
So I’m never lost
in the dark.
And I can just
look at you.
To see love's light
shining through.

If you’ve dark places
in your mind.
I will do the
same thing too.
And shine a light
from my heart.
Of all of my
love for you.

I’ll shine my light
in your heart.
So you’re never lost
in the dark.
And I will just
look at you.
So you see love's
light shining too.

BRONZE AWARD

ALLPOETRY.COM = Bronze Award for 'A Friend In Me' 5/8/2011

Children Of Our Time

They look up above to the skies
with their young and innocent eyes.
Little children not really knowing
where their young lives are going.
Some are born of kings and queens
others just of people with dreams.
Some are born into families so poor
others destined for riches and more.


Adolescence will arrive out of the blue
their bodies will change, they will too!
Many will become technology slaves
and adopt some rather strange ways.
Boys will see girls, in a different light
and dream of them deep into the night.
Boys will wear clothing with a hood
girls will say they’re misunderstood.


They’ll be arrogant, just wanting fun
a bit like us, when we were young.
Some may learn from what they see
in the ways of people like you and me.
But they all deserve a chance in life
even just to be a good husband or wife.
To find happiness in whatever they do
and to know success and humility too.

Anthology

Both 'Just To Be Happy' and 'Strolling By The Sea' to be in Forward Press Anthologies to be published in 2011

Poem of the week

POETRY RETREAT.COM voted 'The House On The Hill' as -Poem of the week- 30th July 2011

The House On The Hill

He remembers their first time, in the evening chill
near to the cornfield behind the house on the hill.
Where the old folks live who are lost behind its door
and don’t know where, or who they are any more.

He visits her most days, she often doesn’t know who he is
at the house on the hill, where she now needs to live.
Sometimes she looks at him with a certain look in her eye
and he knows that look and he tries hard not to cry.

He wonders if somewhere behind those troubled eyes
the woman he loved so much somehow still survives.
And just occasionally in a moment of lucid thought
she remembers the times when her life was less fraught.

The time they were young lovers, passionate and free
and so happy to be married in the spring of fifty three.
The children they raised and all their cute little ways
and the sounds of Sinatra and Minnelli, on the airwaves.

He sits in his chair gazing through the window each night
up to the house on the hill, until the last moment of light.
Wondering if she looks down at the place she called home
and if she really knows he still lives there, all alone.

SECOND PLACE

Achieved 2nd place in April Monthly Poetry Contest at Voicesnet.com with my poem
THE OLD VICAR.

A Lifetime Together

How quickly the time has passed
since the day you became my wife.
After all this time it feels as though
we’ve been together all of my life.
They have been mostly good years
the difficulties have been few.
And the best thing I have ever done
is to fall in love with you.

Now we have reached a special time
a celebration of a lifetime together.
We just want our life and love
to go on and just last forever.
You know how much I love you
and what you mean to me.
So I just want to wish you now
a happy anniversary.

(for our ruby wedding)