The Killing Fields

MAGPIE 208

Poet's Sleep, 1989, by Chang Houg Ahn

Courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales 

 http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/02/mag-208.html

Inspiration does not come

Easily

When the Muse sleeps

I

Lay down my head

Closing my heavy lids

Hoping

That she will awake

The

Slumber in me

Outside of my window

Staring

Closely in at me

Dancing 

Flowers imitating skulls

Blessed peace must  come

Surely

To colour out the

Images

Of killing fields

Barbara M Lake  

©

Trinidad WI

February 2014

Eleven Years On

Margaretha Gerrard (Nee Tischler) 1925 - 2003

 August 1995, RI.

Today I light a candle and raise a glass to my wonderful, beautiful Mummy who left us eleven years ago today two weeks short of her 78th birthday. 

Glamourous, vibrant, exciting, exotic, volatile, full of fun, generous to a fault, family protector and much loved by the many, many people whose lives she touched in one way or another, Margaretha Gerrard  is still sorely missed.  

The doting Grandma

Trinidad W1 1993

The fun lover

RI August 1995

Here's to you Mummy. 

I imagine you in heaven with Daddy, watching over us and raising a heavenly glass to each other and to those you left behind.

Popularity!

MAGPIE 206

Photograph courtesy of Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/02/mag-206.html

There was a young blonde named Aurora
Who borrowed the boyfriend's Fedora
The problem arose
When she took off her clothes
And now everyone simply adores her



Barbara M Lake
Trinidad, WI
February 2014


( I thought better of writing my first thought for the last line.  I so wanted to use the words explor 'er  but I thought it may be seen as a little more than risqué and I didn't want to be thrown out of Magpie Tales!)

A Piano Flirtation

MAGPIE 205  

Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid

http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/02/mag-205.html

A breve

A semi breve

A minim

A crochet

A quaver

A semi quaver

Demisemiquaver

Hemidemisemiquaver

Flat sharp

Natural

Double flat

Double sharp

Demiflat

Flat and a half

Demisharp

Sharp and a half

Symbols

Written

On a stave

Pianissimo

Fortissimo

Forte

Fortissimo

Sforzando

Diminuendo

A decrease

Crescendo

An increase

So many

Black and white

Piano keys

Describing life

Barbara M Lake ©

Trinidad WI

Jan 2011

I wrote this as The Notes of Life  for Magpie 48 in January 2011.  For Magpie 205, I have changed the title and the  last stanza.