a secret reviled

a secret reviled

Secrets reviled

Eva Braun was a Greenland seal lived in an aquarium Herr
Hitler Liked animals

his dog loved him truly. Dog lovers are supposed to be kind.
Love on first sight.

So perhaps there was a call for a loving word that was
denied in his childhood;

by the fireside and on his lap the dog sat and he whispered
sweet words into

 the dog’s ear a
moment when his mind was not contaminated by Jewish blood. 

In the country I lived in there were many islands most of
them have

a bridge now and no longer feels like islands.  Nevertheless we were standing

by the gangway of a ferry you were going to see your sister,
I knew you were

getting away from me. My love for you were total, yours were
not, you just left

without telling me why. Distances I beginning to feel but my
unhappiness was

an annoyance, you gave me a phone number to but it didn’t
work, gurgling noises

a phone dropped into a fish tank, but I heard repressed
laughter

You were married to a sea master golden rings on is uniform
and that is ok;

you and the master of the sea never got children. Widow a
childless woman

 your dishonesty
bothers me, Eva Braun’s fish tale was as phony as

your loves for me were.    

Burundi

Burundi

Burundi

Burundi

Elusive it is the dream of peace

and the Burundi the president is seeking a third term,

but the people say NO, and fight for

a fair election, in dusty streets.

Africa has had enough of presidents who will  not

 give up power and lucrative ill-gotten gains.

People of Burundi, I salute you.

Kathmandu

Kathmandu

Useless Money

I often get petitioning letters so many people trying

to find a place to live and only receive bitter refusal

and see their children die of thirst and hunger.

I wish to help them all but no money in the world is

enough to stop this flood of humanity seeking a haven

flotsam, the wreck of the unfortunate and we can do

nothing but looks another way.

Overwhelmed by the misery I can do little about, but

the woman from Myanmar who won a medal for her

tenacity, choose not to speak. The friendly Buddhists

are killing Muslims in their midst, they have become

refugees; the woman from Myanmar is voiceless.

 She, the upper-class daughter of a Burmese general

Who aristocratic behaviour impressed us deeply,

But I ask why she is staying silent now.