My Published Poetry

I’m happy and honoured to have two of my poems published in this anthology, which is now on the Amazon best sellers list.

Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology – preface by Gabriela Marie Milton

If you open the pages of this poetry collection, you will be mesmerized by the talent of the contributors, and by the range of stylistic approaches they use to recreate the world of childhood.  It must be said from the beginning that this is not a poetry collection for children. The pages you will read memorialize the beauty and magic of childhood – remembrance of love and fairytales – as well as its ugliness – abuses, poverty – that unfortunately still exist in our world. Some of the authors of the poems included in this anthology were brave enough to talk about the pain they endured in childhood. I salute all contributors: those who tell the world that childhood is love, and those who still bear the wounds of a difficult childhood.

Gabriela Marie Milton
author, editor, publisher

When I was four

Hidden behind a chair

So small

Trying to be smaller

Invisible

Trembling

Hands pressed against my ears

Eyes tightly closed

Bang!

The door slams         

The House shakes

Muffled sobs

Silence

Mum?

Tears on her cheeks, she clutches my hand

We need to run

Are we coming back?

Never!

A poem by Sandra Thompson