My Mummy

I love my Mummy more than jellybeans

She cuddles me and smells like soap

I even love her more than vegemite sandwiches

A One-liner on Love

Love is yearning and butterflies

Laughter - Laughter by Anne Kahlert

laughter - laughter here I come

to make my friend smile and calm

jump and jump to the left to the right

thru the day time and night



laughter - laughter here I am

to make true all the sweetest dreams

like my friend always has in sleep

thru the very beautiful night

that will never skip



laughter - laughter here we are

my friend and I are blab - blab - blab

and we are happy and careless

cause the better future are waiting for us



laughter - laughter, who are you?

WHAT! you don't recognize me?

I am sorry, I thought I know you

but just let it be

because a real friendship doesn't care who we are

My Poetry Book on Lulu

Hi! there Readers - I'm so excited! I've just self-published my very own book "Goldie's Poems". The first book that is totally my own work. Please see the link to Lulu at the top of the sidebar in this blog...Goldie

Life is a Compass

I wrote this poem at a poetry workshop I went to. The person’s life in this poem is not my own except for one or two points. I won’t say which points they are just to keep you guessing…Goldie

My life is a compass pointing in different directions

North the upward things
My children, happy childhood, carefree


South is downwards
Divorce, depression, disaster
Why does this have to happen?
Do these things build my character?
Make me stronger?
I hope so!
Then the pain is worthwhile


East is sunshine on a beautiful day
A walk in the park hand in hand with my lover
A child skipping on a footpath
Then tottering in Grandmas’s high heeled shoes
Being met at the airport by my Grandfather – a WW1 veteran
The nicest man that ever lived, one of nature’s gentlemen


Finally west is the sunset of my life
The autumn has passed and winter is here

A Dancing Bear

Oh! My beautiful dancing bear
What have they done to you?
I remember when you danced free
Pirouetting through the forest
Like a ballet dancer
Graceful and agile
Thick, luxuriant coat, gleaming eyes
A confident demeanour

Then they came – they took you
You’re freedom gone forever
Trapped in a concrete enclosure
You sway and pace with lack-lustre eyes
My heart breaks

Children watch with fascination
They don’t know what it was you came from –
A paradise where you were free
Now a butterfly trapped in a spider’s web – my beautiful
Dancing bear
In the hands of humans I cry for you
And wish your death to come quickly
You would be better off
Yes, better off!

Reflections

I look in the mirror,
The reflection I see is clear blue skies,
Tiny tufts of feather down clouds,
Sunlight glinting on golden curls
It’s a day at the beach in Sorrento
For a little girl in
Red bathers with a koala appliqué
She proudly wears her mother’s dark glasses
While she soars high on a swing
Then falls onto a bed of wood chips
She’s crying
Her father picks her up
And cradles her in his arms

Now there are two little girls,
Sisters, both golden-haired, licking ice-cream – blue heaven,
From Mr Shapaelis’ ice-cream shop
As they sit in the family car
And watch the seas pound Sorrento’s back beach
Wild, majestic, dangerous

The sisters explore the sheltered rock pools,
Feet sinking into sand
As they venture into the warm water
Searching for shells, starfish, seaweed

Then Mum, Dad, and two little girls climb to the lookout
Up there it feels like the top of the world
The wind howls its mournful cry, seagulls screech
But the little girls are unafraid because
Life is carefree, safe and secure with loving parents

I rub my eyes
Reflecting back at me is no longer a happy family
But an old woman still with golden hair
Her face wrinkled, careworn
A legacy of life’s worries
And in later years, illness
She looks tired and is frowning

Tears surprise me
And glint like dewdrops in the morning on her face
I angrily wipe them away
And turning from the mirror
Am filled with a deep sadness.