The titles and a one line description of some of the poems are shown below. They appear in alphabetical order of title to make them easier to find. All the poems are about people even if one seems to be about a bed sheet The characters range in age from a 7 year old remembering when he was three to an old guy struggling with a jigsaw puzzle and reviewing his life. Some are philosophical but in a folksy rather than academic way. Je ne Suis pas Charlie was written against the tirade of hatred that followed the Paris killings and was originally simply called Respect. Many are sentimental, some just written to make you laugh, others to make you think again by considering a new perspective. THE POEMS Always Remember -A reminder not to lose ourselves in life A Mind Disturbed -Three short phases of a worrying life An Intimate Relationship -Re-establishing links with a son A Rosy Glow Returns -Memories of a grandfather Beer-on-the-Jetty Philosophy -A Caribbean father’s reflections on life Bordering -A long life reviewed as a jigsaw is completed Breaking Through -A plea for a return to a complex love Community Servant -A drug dealer to kids defends his role Dialogue with a Teenager -A mother and daughter discuss midnight Drought -A brief dystopian view of the future Easter -A secular family’s light-hearted holiday story Empty Space -A brief chilling scene First Experience of Warmth -A memory of a childhood event First Toy, First Love, First Loss -A sad account of childhood loss Getting Spliced -A short formal poem about the act of marriage Graham Greene -A tribute to a favourite author Hands -Images that tumble into a story Hostess -Four lines of character assassination Je ne Suis pas Charlie -A response to the outcry about the cartoonist Lament -About not liking the loss of English Lifelong Love -A tribute to parenting Lives Change -A child recalls a day at the zoo Lost at Sea -A boy on a beach with his dad Lucky Billy Taylor -A Lancashire monologue Massaging Expectatio