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 […]
Month: December 2002
Edmonton Miracles
by Godfrey J. Ellis – October 2002 My brother and I shared an emotional time doing work in the Edmonton Temple for our deceased father who, to say the very least, did not accept our Church during his lifetime. Did he later? We believe he did…. Defiling? Is Veil renting? Is Temple quaking? Paper in […]
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 […]