Reibus

I wrote this originally on 30 December 2012, as a part of my It’s Okay to be Angry blog about violation. I’ve re-posted it on Reibus. Please read...it probably relates to you, too. Anger can be a debilitating emotion.  It can also be a very motivating and inspiring emotion.  The challenge is to know whether your anger is de structive or con structive. Most anger management instruction I have read tells me to "forgive".  Well I can't forgive the action that made me angry.  It was a violation of the very essence of my identity.   I've had to live with it my entire adult life.  Why shouldn't I be angry?  Why should I forgive? I read that "repressed memory" was a load of crap, but I know different - I suppressed memories of what happened to me for 19 years before they flooded back to haunt me.  Now I can't get rid of them, no matter how I try.  I often wondered why there were so many books and articles written by women who had been...

 

Title:              Pitcairn - Paradise Lost: Uncovering the dark secrets of a South Pacific fantasy island Author:           Kathy Marks Pages:            383 Publisher:       Fourth Estate, Harper Collins, Australia Date:               2008 I bought this book before my stroke – in fact, before my ex walked out more than a year before that – so I had nothing happening which could encourage me to read it. I finally read it during the lockdown for COVID-19. I wonder if I should have. Kathy Marks wrote a long true tale, but it told of paedophilia, incest, violence, youth, older men, women who would never believe their young girls, and just so many more stories leading up to the court case of rape and sexual assault. Pitcairn was a ve...

Have you read the Three Little Pigs in your childhood? How about Red Riding Hood ? You know, of course (don't you?) that they have been around for years . Roald Dahl and Jon  Scieszca knew the real  tales, and the're available on You Tube or published. Have a look at the You Tube videos  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or   Revolting Rhymes - Three Little Pigs . Or look up the real books in Penguin Random House or in Angus & Robertson .  I wrote a ... sort of ... review of these books. Enjoy! Wolf vs the Pigs – and Red Riding Hood @ Louisa Reid When Jon wrote the tale of wolf vs pigs The teller told of himself Who was, as he said, A hero and kind (*cough cough*) You can meet him from your bookshelf! In this tale he said he would sneeze Which, we now know, let him down If you’ve ever sneezed Then maybe you would know That sneeze became his breakdown He couldn’t trap the pigs while he sneezed at them He trie...

Poetry is inspirational. It is magical; lyrical; metaphorical; figurative imagery; tension, rhythm and emotion. It is all of those and much, much more! If you love poetry, you understand it. Years ago I became entranced with poetry. As a child I had learned children’s poems like Baa Baa Sheep and Jack and Jill . As I grew up I began writing my own poems. I fell in love with the ‘cats’ poems written by T.S. Eliot: Andrew Lloyd Webber used the poems for his Cats musical, and to sing them and see them on stage hooked viewers. I have recently read a poem by Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) written in his class at school in 1970 that seemed to sound so good (read it yourself!). My personal poetry changed from enjambment to villanelle to free verse to rhyme, yet I wrote my poems as stories, comedies, songs, feminism, environmentalism and politics. For me, poetry tells my own tales. This one I wrote in 1975, and it told just how I had felt after I ...