Month: December 2002

Cupcakes

Cupcakes

by Godfrey J. Ellis – October 2002 Mum (“Mom” for you Americans) had a friend who threw my little-boy-cupcakes in the trash! What? Oh, the tragedy of that, as this poem expresses. Nine-year old Godfrey, baking cupcakes. Mum helping; very complicated. “Read that, add that, stir that!” Blind faith mixes the pasty mud of sugars […]

The Camper

The Camper

by Godfrey J. Ellis – December 2002 This is another poem about a childhood memory and the emotions surrounding my relationship with my dear mother. Somehow, some way, we were at a fair,An auto fair, a truck show,With cycles, and racing cars, and polished antiques.Chrome everywhere.Why were we there?  I don’t know.It was in an […]