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Sad

by Jan on May 21, 2009

Sad little memory. Sad there’s so little memory. My father returning home from months at sea. Late evening? Maybe the middle of the night. Lights on in the hall, bustling, hushed voices waking me. Excited, but I must stay in bed. I’m 3 perhaps, or 4. Daddy pops in to say goodnight. He shows me [...]

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Poet, aged 10

by Jan on April 15, 2009

I wasn’t that happy in Class 1 at my primary school. I was target of some bullying and was, as always in those days, struggling to find my place. Every Friday afternoon our task was to find a poem that we liked, copy it into our Poetry Books and then illustrate it. If we felt [...]

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