Month to celebrate the older person: “Cockroaches”
COCKROACHES By Joan (Watler) Wilson I saw a cockroach crossing the road As fast as his scrawny legs could go Without fear of being squashed to death He didn’t even attempt to go slow * And it wasn’t an ordinary…
Month to celebrate the older person: “That Olde Cat Look” & “Togetherness”
By Joan Wilson You get two poems today for the price of one. The first one is about a dear friend of mine (see if you can guess who it is) and the second is about love for one another….
Month to celebrate the older person: C-H-S REUNION
To celebrate Older Persons Month C-H-S REUNION By Joan (Watler) Wilson The C-H-S as it was known in 1949 Came about at a very crucial time When the Island was full of children galore Yearning for knowledge and ways to explore….
Month to celebrate the older person: “The Goldfield”
Introduction to The Goldfield From the turn of the last century to the start of the Second World War, shipbuilding was a major source of income for the Cayman Islands. Between 1903 and 1950, more than 283 vessels were built in…
Month to celebrate the older person: PARKING
To celebrate Older Persons Month PARKING By Joan E. Wilson We’ve got a real problem with parking Especially right here in George Town I mean, this tiny town is so very busy We can look for ages and not a space…
Month to celebrate the older person: “Month of the Older Person”
In case it was thought I haven’t written a poem really suitable for the ‘month to celebrate older persons’!!! This was written a long time before Miss Olive Miller sadly died and I have now updated two of the verses….
Month to celebrate the older person: Debby or Debbie
I wrote this to celebrate the event when Hurricane Debby on August 24 2000 took a different turn and missed our Islands. As a result we benefited from the ships that were to visit, Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Trinidad and Tobago,…
Month to celebrate the older person: Why I write poems for you…..
By Joan Watler Wilson I find writing poems good for one’s ego Once I get started I just can’t let go Even though sometimes it’s really tough going Most of the time my thoughts are flowing. * But if I…
Month to celebrate the older person: “Idle Thoughts of Yesteryear”
To celebrate Older Persons Month Idle Thoughts of Yesteryear By Joan Wilson (from her book “Buried Treasures”) Sometimes I let my thoughts run wild when I’m sitting idleMy mind just wanders and wanders going back in timeAnd in the middle of my…
The Editor speaks: Dark days
By Colin Wilson But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the…