THE CORNER 4 WOMEN

Sunday 24 March 2024

I FOUND MY PEACE by Joanne Boyle

"I FOUND MY PEACE"
by Joanne Boyle

I heard that awful news today

as you stood beside my bed.

Although I had prepared myself,

for all the things you said.

I just sat there numb.

I wanted you to go away.

I wanted the life I'd known.

I wanted yesterday.

Yet still you stood there screeching,

scratching at my brain.

Running over my ever after

with the wheels of your steam train.

I am not sure if you saw me cry,

or did I wait for you to go?

I tried to cover my ears,

because I didn't want to know.

I heard everything you said.

I just didn't comprehend.

So I played my childhood game.

The one where I pretend.

I thought a thousand thoughts.

I wondered what I'd done.

I looked towards the door.

Maybe I could run.

Then I thought of my family.

My children of the Earth.

So I looked you in the eye,

and remembered my self worth.

I was not afraid of anything,

as much as leaving you behind.

Who would be there to guide you

when something was on your mind?

So then I found my peace

with the life I got to own.

Cancer will not defeat me.

This illness I disown.

*****

Joanne Boyle Heartfelt

art by Steffi Krenzek

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WHEN YOU by Joanne Boyle

"WHEN YOU"
by Joanne Boyle

Don't forget ... I love You! (share the love)

With so much to remember,

and so many things to do.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When your days are dark, and

you think you can't get through,

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When you feel you are alone,

and there's no one to talk to.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When you look out of the window,

and don't like the view.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When your head tells you stories,

and you don't know what's true.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When you feel your dreams are over,

and too late to pursue.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When you feel you are forgotten

because of pastures new.

One thing to never forget,

is how much that I love you.

When you look in the mirror,

say "I love you,"

and one thing to remember,

is that I love you too.

*****

Joanne Boyle Heartfelt

art by Steffi Krenzek

A LETTER TO CANCER by Joanne Boyle

"A LETTER TO CANCER"
by Joanne Boyle

I can't bring myself to write

the word 'dear' on this paper.

So, I'll Start my letter by asking,

"why you would want to break her?"

I never thought I'd be the person,

that I am since meeting you.

You introduced yourself to My father,

and now my wife too.

You care nothing for your victims.

But do you know what hurts me more?

To see the ones I truly love

crumbling on the floor.

The treatment gives us hope,

that you will disappear.

Still your dirty seed is planted

and we will live in fear.

I'll keep on writing you letters.

I don't suppose you will reply.

But along with our country,

United we will try.

*****

Joanne Boyle Heartfelt

art by Steffi Krenzek

THE ONLY CONSTANT THING IN LIFE by Becky Hemsley

"THE ONLY CONSTANT THING IN LIFE"
by Becky Hemsley

Where light exists, there’s shadow

Where a rose is, you’ll find thorns

And where the dusk descends at night

The sun will rise at dawn

Where fear exists, there’s courage

We are free to be controlled

And where there exists a secret

There’s a story to be told

Each end’s a new beginning

Sometimes lies reveal the truth

And where there is growing old it’s ‘cause

At one time there was youth

If you fail repeatedly

There’s more chance you’ll succeed

But the only guarantee in life

Is nothing’s guaranteed

‘Cause life is contradictory

Where less is often more

It’s a paradox, it’s opposites

A constant upward fall

In a world where silence deafens

And where there is icy heat

Where sometimes things are awfully good

And sometimes bittersweet

So when life’s playing up

Try not to let it get you down

‘Cause sometimes we must lose ourselves

To finally feel found

And you are not alone

So many others feel the same

‘Cause the only constant thing in life

Is that it’s bound to change

*****

Becky Hemsley 2023

Gorgeous artwork by Olga Cuttell

This one is from 'Letters from Life' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9MZC1...

Wednesday 20 March 2024

OUR THREE LOVES

"OUR THREE LOVES"
(author unknown)

We fall in love with 3 people over the course of our lifetime. Each one has a specific reason. Let me explain...

First loves often occur during youth, and as time passes, we may grow apart or end things due to trivial reasons.

When you get older and more mature you look back and think it was not love. But it actually was.... It was love for what you knew love to be at that point in time.

You have to always remember there are different depths of love.

Now our 2nd Love and this is the hard one....

You get hurt when you fall in love with this person. This one teaches us lessons that we learn from and makes us stronger as a individual.

This love includes a substantial amount of pain, betrayal, abuse, lies, and emotional damage.

But believe it or not, this is the one where we grow the most. We realize what we truly know about love and what we don’t know about love.

So now we put our walls up because we are extremely protective of what the future might hold for us when it comes to relationships.

And naturally we become closed off, suspicious, very careful and slightly scared. But now we know exactly what we want out of a partner and what we definitely do not want.

Our 3rd and final love.

This one comes out of nowhere. No warning. No sign whatsoever. You don’t go looking for this love. It actually finds you. You can put up all the walls in the world, and they will come crashing down just as fast as you built them up in the first place.

You’ll find yourself caring about that person without even trying.

They look nothing like your usual type, but you get lost when you look in their eyes. You don't see any flaws. You see flawless imperfections. You find yourself telling them everything about you and what has melded you into the person you are today.

You want a life with them. You want slow dances in the kitchen, you want walks on the beach under a starry night sky, you want to marry them and have beautiful children that resemble the both of you perfectly.

And every night when you close your eyes before you go to sleep, you catch yourself praying to God and thanking him for the reasons why it has never worked out with anyone else before.

Tuesday 19 March 2024

SPRING EQUINOX IS HERE by Brigit Anna McNeill

"SPRING EQUINOX IS HERE"
by Brigit Anna McNeill

Spring equinox is here, a point of balance where we stand with one foot in the darkness of soil and inner worlds and another in the gold and green of leaves, buttery petals and blossom.

This can be a time where new life above the earth brings hope to the heart and can reinforce our own wants and needs to grow and bloom.

Reminding us of long held dreams that long to be made into plans.

Honour your seeds, follow natures guidance and eat dandelion leaves and flowers to support you to shift stagnancy and find something wilder and more alive within. Drink cleavers and get things flowing, eat and drink nettles and let them strengthen your bones, your courage and your energy. Let the wild, remind you of your wild.

Step towards the dance of spring and listen well to what wants to grow within you, to what wants to blossom and root into your days.

Speak to the trees, the new shoots and the returning birds singing growth into the air, speak to the soil, speak to your more than human kin, as they are the ones who remember how to grow, alchemise, compost and bloom, let them know what wants to be grown in the garden of your life and how you are going to tend to it. You never know, they may give you some wisdom when you listen and see how they live and thrive.

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• Words Brigit Anna McNeill •

• Art Tijana Lukovic

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TELL ME TOMORROW by Becky Hemsley

"TELL ME TOMORROW"
by Becky Hemsley

Don’t wait til I’m gone

And then stand up to speak

About all the things

That you loved about me

Don’t sing all my praises

Through all of your tears

When I am no longer

Beside you to hear

Don’t leave all that love

Like a secret unsaid

But tell me tomorrow

Or right now instead

And I’ll tell you too

Of the things I admire

About who you are

And how much you inspire

I’ll speak from my heart

Whilst you’re still here to know

“You are” not “you were”

Or “it used to be so”

I’ll speak of your light

Whilst you’ll still hear the words

And not leave that love

In the darkness, unheard

So tell me tomorrow

Or right now - don’t wait

Because we don’t know

When it might be too late

Because we don’t know

When our time might be up

And we need to hear - while we are here -

That we’re loved

*****

Becky Hemsley 2024

https://www.facebook.com/talkingtothewild

Beautiful artwork as usual by Lisa Aisato

‘Tell Me Tomorrow’ is a newer poem so it is not in any current collections (but if you like it, you might like ‘Letters from Life’)

BROKEN AND BRUISED by Becky Hemsley

"BROKEN AND BRUISED"
by Becky Hemsley

If a tree falls in the forest

And nobody hears it fall

They say that we could question

If it really fell at all

Yet sometimes we don’t see the sun

Or feel it on our skin

But we know that it’s still shining

And don’t question it exists

If we see a tree in winter

We could think it’s always bare

But we never doubt that one day

Brand new leaves will linger there

And when we see a fire

We don’t tell it to be cold

And it can’t stop itself burning

Just ‘cause that’s what it’s been told

Yet sometimes people tell us

Of the way we make them feel

And it niggles at our conscience

So we tell them it’s not real

“You’re just over-reacting

There’s no need to cry,” we’ll say

“You’re just so over-sensitive

It wasn’t meant that way”

But though our egos may be bruised

By all the things they’ve said

We can’t say how they’re feeling

‘Cause we’re not inside their head

See, if we’re not in the forest

Then it’s not our place to tell

The tree that’s lying broken

That it never actually fell

*****

Becky Hemsley 2022

Artwork created on Canva

'Broken and bruised' is from What the Wild Replied https://amzn.eu/d/4xNEFUy