I had a fella that I loved very much
Sweet in his manner and soft to the touch
With a big wide smile and a bigger heart still
And tenderness that seemed to trite to be real.
I have a dog breed...
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I had a fella that I loved very much
Sweet in his manner and soft to the touch
With a big wide smile and a bigger heart still
And tenderness that seemed to trite to be real.
I have a dog breed...
Prince Andrew's at Balmoral
and quite bankrupt, morally,
hiding where the law's arm
must retract and leave him be -
out there in old Scottish grounds,
highlands owned by English crown,
shan't...
A distant relic of time..
The now romantic-seeming, domestic landline.
With your parents' Filofax of contacts to its side,
in a place of household pride.
Contacts acquired throughout one's 20th...
Bombay, 1973.
Jayavardhini -
The heroine's name that you will see
on every oil painted billboard
at the road side,
and every cinema hall
strung up outside
a six foot canvas
30 foot wide -...
Dearie me, oh dearie me
how sensitive you are my dear
and yes, I'd known you formerly
to be strung a little high, mon chère -
but now I cannot so much as wink
lest you should think
that I...
Through centuries, society women have refined a code
to drag through mud society men -
and yet...
To ensure, still, these infinite scandals are told
in ways best discerned only by their 'set'.....
In a high rise apartment building,
with coveted coastal city views
and luxury amenities
occupied by the
moneyed few...
A tremor is felt -
as if the earth's core yawned and stirred -
and to...
There are people who like pepper
and put pepper on their meals,
people who think it's better
to eat something they can feel
that tingles and that spikes up
on the tongue
and tonsils too...
A society man of stature
and historical pedigree
fathered an illegitimate son
and that son of his
was me.
He raised me as a 'patron',
though what we were was known.
Sponsored my years at...
I particularly like the simplcity of this little sentence, there's something freeing about it.
Man who mourns his hair,
you are allowed to care
and grieve.
Vulnerable to,
this new you
you didn't want
or need.
Thick and full,
youth framed your face,
abundant and
He had built, for her, a country home -
for she had borne, for him, a son
and she expected compensation
for a duty so well done.
An heir for him,
a home for her -
to roam at whim
fields winds...
Someone you've loved -
and who dearly loved you -
journey here has come to it's end..
there are veils of time and space
to pass through
to where
you'll both be united again.
They come to know...
She met Matthieu in France,
who embodied in look
every French archetype
in film or in book -
tousled brown curls,
a frame athletic and slim,
a dark mole by his lip
and sleepy way of speaking. ...
There's a city the world's called 'The Pearl of the Coast'
since the days of parchment and quill
and those born to it, to good fortune still toast
it should be their luck - and God's will.
Its...
I'm a troublemaker
I'm quite unashamed to say
I trouble and I torment a new target
every day;
Oh, I cause some train-wrecks
with my wicked,
wicked way
as a true troublemaker
tries to do.
Who sent the cough around the kingdom?
Who sent the lurgy round the land?
Who's been about the place carrying on -
and not washing their hands!
Who sent the nasty round the nation?
Who sneezed...
I am Guyana.
Land of rolling brown waters and low, wide plains
of pregnant, perspiring forests
and, perhaps, El Dorado too
..but that's for me to know,
not you.
I am Guyana.
Of table...
The Dictator and First Lady have been deposed.
A 23 year reign cut down in a deftly executed military coup that stormed the National Palace at 3.17pm this afternoon - and now holds them in the...
'Cheveux en Soie' reads the name on the box
famed symbol of this Black business dynasty;
Wealthy for wielding a magic on locks
African in nature - before applied gratuitously -
is the heavily...
In the quarter of the city with the prime real estate
women pull up in town cars, instruct chauffeurs not to wait -
the apartment building canopy shields visitors from rain
a gloved and capped...
The Third Wife
He's much older and wiser now...
so why is it her sense, somehow,
his proposal was just to placate,
put her head at rest that his was straight
and his third attempt would be...
In a little town in Paraguay,
where peach rose dusks rot into the night -
a white and terracotta ranch sits on the Ypacaraí
where an old man waits out the end of his life...
His hair had been...
1030 Melrose West..
At lunch, one hostess and familiar guest;
early March afternoon,
Suburban sun -
sat on the patio to the lawn
he'll walk up and kill them both from.
A pretty, sprawling...
Prosperidad, 18th Century Sudamérican town
Iron-cast balconies, quaintly wound streets - cobblestoned
Campsis radicans creep up it's buildings, burst, shower down
In the breeze off outlying...