Out There!

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Photo courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

Save your life

Including files

Where you can't

Hold them 

Keep them safe

Locked away

Within a cloud

Out there

Let them all

Float about

So very  safe

In cyberspace!

Barbara M Lake ©

Trinidad WI

July 2013

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Indentured Labourer

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Image by Musin Yohan

Courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales on Blogger

From a far off land she came

Rolling across rough seas

With promises of 

A better life

In the West Indies

Days and nights meld into one
The routine just the same
No one cares
About her life
As she cuts the cane

Now the rains are fast in coming
Falling now until December
And all the 
Time she toils
She refuses to remember

Barbara M Lake  ©

Trinidad WI

July 2013

Birthdays!

It's my daughter's birthday today!  

Last Week.

First passport photograph  - aged two years!

It was my son's birthday last week.

Taken on his Wedding Day December 2010

Aged two years

I am blessed to have two wonderful children. They are a joy.

Eight years apart and born in  the same week.  Wimbledon was a no-no for me the week of their births as I was somewhat preoccupied!  

Birthday parties which of course had to be separate, were a challenge!   He  didn't want the clowns and the little children but she wanted to roller blade and barbecue  with the big boys!!  Happy days!

1986