Literary Works

Happy Birthday IAN – 2021 Today is a time to rememberwhen mother’s love sprung into my lifethe day when I held my son Ian, my eyeopenerthat led me to my truthful inner strife a love that has been so innocently flourisheda mother’s infinite love naively nourishedpure and so simple, so far awayfrom unkindness and any …

Christmas 2020 Dear Ian, Oh what a year!I close my eyes and tryImagine you’re hereHa! Wide smile, I sigh Free spirit as you!How would you confine?Better not here WHOO!then make yourself in line Restrictions, regulationsfor us to know and doto avoid infectionsless deaths and pain come true So incredible my dearhow things have suddenly changedall …

Ian’s Birthday – 5th June 2020 Sitting on a sofaTears down my eyes who would have thought-aamam has still her cries Days pass, weeks tooYears follow throughMum’s still here with youIn her mind and heart too. Time changes altogetherHabits can now be pastSeasons change the weather But mam’s love remains at heart The void you …

A Christmas message from my son My dearest mum, CarmenWhen you see the lights twinkleDon’t let your heart darkenBut feel my kisses sprinkle You watch people smiling and always so grinningKnowing one guy is never there presentDon’t miss me no more but feel our twinningThe love between us is surely incessant Many meet and greet, …

Happy Birthday dear Ian – 31 Happy Birthday my dear IanWe’ve done now thirty-oneAnother year rolls over repeatedly With so more tears than just one I remember you so tinySo stubborn from the startI try so much to guide yeYou charmingly always rise up Growing up you always made sureYou try everything in your short …

Spirit of Love at Christmas Lights twinkling here and therePeople bustling everywhereMany faces beaming with smilesFill the air with love across the miles Love spreads all down the yearsNever weakens or ever disperseChristmas comes as Jesus dwells Touching so many various hearts as well Life has stripped me made me bareLeft me painful and full …

Happy 30th Birthday my dearest sonIan Thirty years ago I held you in my armsThree years ago we’ve been torn apartHow many threes do I need to countSo we meet again once more at last. When I look at the buzzling life around meYou’re missing! My eyes water and my heart beatsThen I wonder if …

Love rules forever Again the shining lights aboutLight up the dark black clouds aboveAgain I walk this brilliance withoutYet my love keeps burning inside alive. I look back when this love began alightThe moment I felt you within so charmsDoubt, fear, selfishness tried to fightBut triumphantly lost with you in my arms As you flourished …

Feelings … to my son, Ian, on his 29th and 2nd year away I close my eyesI feel you freeI feel your gleeBut I’m your mum, I want you mine. I close my eyesI feel you peacefulI fee you blissfulBut I’m your mum, I want you mine. I close my eyes I feel you serenceI …

I Am On The Sofa (2016) I am on the sofa where my son used to lie Back from the jungle away from it all I switch off my smile And can be myself again once more. My eyes start to water as I feel my heart in pain. Why aren’t you near me? Why …