The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, 2008, Mary Ann Shaffer
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Letters, like potato peel pies, feed souls through wartime's occupation ~
Categories:
shaffer, food, life, war,
Form: Monoku
Book About Guernsey Isle
She was an excellent editor and explorer
Which is why we always will adore her
Going through books and then editing
After that to all authors properly crediting.
She had gone to Guernsey Isle one day
To see all of the many books on display
Several were about historical events
And German Occupation making no sense.
It was a lost cause from the beginning
Being so boisterous and always sinning
Each party continues on and never stops
Drinking much beer made out of hops.
Only thing considered to be contagious
Was Guernsey people being courageous
Putting up with each and every party
And Germans being healthy and hardy.
All the days are now over and done
Glad by Germans war was not won
Last thing they did was to rehearse
What must be done when you disperse.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran
Inspired by reading the book
"The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society" by
Mary Ann Shaffer and
Annie Barrows.
Categories:
shaffer, war,
Form: Couplet
that first breath after hearing Beethoven
inhaling life from him
John’s many gifts to me
feeling his tears at La Boheme
hearing him laugh at Carmen
sharing the shock of a trembling “Equus”* audience
Broadway, Times Square, Rockefeller Center
hours of sharing our innermost secrets
strolling through Central Park
John, you opened my eyes, my world
but failed to teach me one thing...
how to live “Without You”*
*"Equus" is a play by Peter Shaffer
*"Without You" by Nilsson was our song
Categories:
shaffer, husband,
Form: Free verse