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Monday 8 January 2024

RIVER OF TEARS by Janelle Erin Elizabeth Peters

"RIVER OF TEARS" by Janelle Erin Elizabeth Peters

So many moments will pass by

Everything lost in the blink of an eye

We long to get these moments back

Moving forward on a one-way track

Don't look back, please keep on going

As the river will continue flowing

Without ever even knowing

Just which way the wind is blowing

As we feel the breeze upon our face

This journey we travel is not a race

Trickling down with gentle grace

While we look back at our mistakes

Like water flowing down the river

Or the wind blowing through the sky

The love we give is our forgiver

While the river fills with tears we cry

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A SMART WOMAN by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"A SMART WOMAN"
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

How many men have I heard that they want a "smart woman" in their life ! ..

I would encourage them to think about this...

Smart women make decisions for themselves, have their own desires and set boundaries.

You will never be the centre of her life because it revolves around herself.

A smart woman will not allow herself to be manipulated or blackmailed, she takes responsibility.

Smart women question, analyse, argue, are not satisfied, move forward.

Those women had a life before you and I know they will continue to have once you are gone.

She warns, she doesn't ask for permission.

These women are not looking for a leader to follow, a father to solve their lives, or a son to save them.

They don't want to follow you or mark someone's path.

They want to walk beside you.

She knows that life without violence is a right, not a luxury or a privilege.

They express their anger, sadness, joy, and fear in the same way, fear doesn't make her weak, the same way anger doesn't make her “masculine.”

These two emotions and others, all together, make her only human.

An intelligent woman is free because she fought for her freedom.

But she is not a victim, she survived.

Don't try to tie her up because she will know how to escape.

The intelligent woman knows that her worth does not reside in the appearance of her body.

Think twice before you judge her by her age, height, volume or sexual behaviour because that is emotional abuse and she knows it.

So, before you say you want a "smart woman" in your life, ask yourself if you're really willing to join her.

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CHASING TOMORROW by Becky Hemsley 2023

"CHASING TOMORROW"
by Becky Hemsley 2023

Today I woke and found myself

With less than yesterday

My life was missing things

I had assumed were here to stay

Things that had seemed little

‘Til they left a giant space,

Left an empty silence

And a longing in their place

And I began to understand

That when push came to shove

I longed for what I’d had

When I’d thought that was not enough

I’d always looked ahead

Was always chasing more and more

Growing so complacent

Of the things I once wished for

Running to tomorrow,

To the weekend, to next year

Forgetting I was lucky

For the things already here

And all this made me realise

That my life can’t buy more time

So maybe I should spend my time

Loving this life of mine

And maybe I’ll be grateful

For the little things I’ve got

That seem inconsequential

But which mean an awful lot

So, tonight I’ll thank the stars

Instead of asking them for more

And I will hope to wake with all

The things I’ve thanked them for

‘Cause now I see that my todays

Are filled with time I’ve borrowed

And I shouldn’t sit around and waste them

Chasing my tomorrows

******

Becky Hemsley 2023

Gorgeous artwork by Rachel Blackwell Artist & Illustrator

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POISON THAT KILLS MEN

"POISON THAT KILLS MEN" (author unknown)

Once upon a time a beautiful girl got tired of her marriage life and wanted to murder her spouse.

One morning she ran to her mother and say to her " mother, I am tired of my husband I can no longer support his nonsense. I want to kill him but I am afraid Law of the land will hold me responsible, can you please help me mother?"

The mother answered:

- Yes my daughter I can help you, but, there is a little task attached.

The daughter asked "what task? I am willing and ready to assume any task attached in order to get him out"

OK, said the mother,

1..You will have to make peace with him, so that no one will suspect you when he is dead.

2.. You will have to beautify yourself in order to look young and attractive to him

3.. You have to take good care of him and be very nice and appreciative to him

4.. You have to be patient, loving and less jealous, have more listening ears, be more respectful and obedient

5. Spend your money for him and don’t get angry even when he don't give you money for whatever

6. Don’t raise your voice against but encourage Peace and love so that you will never be suspected when he must have died.

Can you do all of that?

Asked the mother.

Yes i can. She replied

OK, said the mother.

Take this powder and pour a bit in his every day meal, it will slowly kill him.

After 30 days the lady came back to her mother and said.

Mother, I have no intention of killing my husband again. As of now I have grown to love him more because he has completely changed, he is now a very sweet husband than I ever imagined.

What can i do to stop the poison from killing him?

Please help me mother

She pleaded in a sorrowful tone.

The mother answered;

Do not worry my daughter. What I gave you the other day was just Turmeric Powder. It will never kill him.

In reality, you were the poison that was slowly killing your husband with tension and dispassion.

It was when you started loving, honouring and cherishing him, you saved him

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Sunday 7 January 2024

DATE NIGHT by Becky Hemsley 2022

"DATE NIGHT"
by Becky Hemsley 2022

I met the moon for coffee

It was Friday night I think

When she watched me hardly sleeping

And invited me for drinks

We found ourselves a table

In the middle of the night

And the constellations twinkled

Like a thousand fairy lights

She asked me how I’d been

As she poured coffee from a pot

For she said she’d watched me

Waking up at midnight quite a lot

I said my brain was far too full

My mind was always on

And when I woke it felt as if

I was the only one

The only one who lay awake

Whilst I sat on my bed

With thoughts that raced at lightning speed

Around my busy head

The only one who watched the clock

Tick one and two and three

Who laid awake and worried

Whilst the world was fast asleep

My thoughts were stuck in orbit

And I couldn’t pull them back

As they preferred to swim against

A sky so vast and black

The moon said simply nothing

But she opened up a book

And I saw it was a diary

So I took a closer look

And listed there were names of people

All around the world

And all the thoughts and worries

That the moon had overheard

Just then, my eyes were drawn towards

The name that was my own

And that was when the moon said

“See, you shouldn’t feel alone”

And then she pulled me close

Using the night sky as a blanket

And said “I know you sometimes feel

So lonely on this planet

But when you cannot sleep,

Get up and watch me from your room

And you’ll see so many others

Having coffee with the moon”

********

Becky Hemsley 2022

Artwork created with Canva

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TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY by Mother truths

"TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY"
by Mother truths

You will eventually relax into this. I promise.

One grey afternoon, you'll be making dinner, whilst your ridiculously cute three-year-old sous-chef sits atop the kitchen counter, crumbling Oxo cubes and sniffing thyme.

With one arm cautiously holding her in place and the other haphazardly grating cheese, you'll finally feel at home in this not-so-new skin of yours.

You'll hand her a secret slice of cheddar and jokingly whisper "Shhh!", the same way that your Dad used to.

She'll look up at you, face beaming, delighted with her unexpected tit bit.

It hits you. You're enjoying this.

Finally, all the other stuff that once felt so immediate, will start to leave you. The tiredness. Oh, the tiredness that you thought would haunt you forever. The constant doubting of your own ability, that you thought would never leave you alone. The fear that you will never, ever, get the hang of this.

Because you will, my love.

Not every day. But some of the days. And that is a welcome breakthrough.

And all the rest will slowly fade into the deep recesses until the enduring feeling you're left with is,

"I love you. I love you. I love you".

Today was a good day.

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Art : Leanne Crowe https://www.instagram.com/leannecrowe?igsh=MW1vZXN3NWE0ZWF0OA==

Words: Mother Truths

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BIRDSONG by Becky Hemsley 2021

"BIRDSONG"
by Becky Hemsley 2021

She walked along the pathway

And she hadn’t walked for long

When she met a little bird

Who sang a melancholy song

She listened for a moment

To his sad, enchanting sound

And she asked him why he sang his song

When no-one was around

“I sing to tell the forest

That the day has just begun

And I join the morning chorus

As we’re welcoming the sun

I sing so all the other birds

Will know they’re not alone

And I hum to all the trees

To help their leaves and branches grow

I sing for all the creatures

As they go about their day

And I whistle warnings to the sky

That clouds are on their way”

“But why,” she asked him gently

“Is your song so bittersweet?

Why does it sound like longing

And like yearning when you tweet?”

“I sing to feel less lonely,”

Said the tiny, little bird

“And I tweet into the quiet

Just so I can feel heard

For when the sun is busy,

When the other birds have flown,

When the trees are climbing skyward

Then I’m left here on my own

And I sing to ask the questions

That are tearing through my mind

But I don’t know what I fear the most

Silence… or the reply”

*****

Becky Hemsley 2021

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