My Poetry
LIKE THREADS IN A LACE
Our life is a journey that we travel through
Meeting
and leaving many as we do
People and places
including where we grew
As children of country that we once belonged to
It was our choice to leave our own land
And reach out to Heaven for a helping hand
As we get settled in our new found land
Integrating
ourselves and joining the band
It is nice to integrate in the harmony
And enrich the land with diversity
Of culture we bring with such ceremony
As we celebrate our festivity
As plants uprooted from original ground
People too
feel the shock of new found
Land, until they feel
that they can be proud
Citizens and plough back to
enrich new ground
As a group or as individuals we all can do
Our part
to enrich and bear new fruits too
That can be enjoyed by the citizens of two
Countries
that link through this union so true
The culture and traditions we have are so rich
They
need to be nurtured and kept ready to switch
As and when needed to show and enrich
The place we now call home while on or off pitch
As a group that is committed to enrich this place
Let us all now unite irrespective of race
And creed that we follow in our own personal ways
Yet blend in the beauty
like threads in a lace
let us blend in the beauty, like threads in a lace
Anne Perera© 15 August 1998
A GREAT CUP OF TEA
Nothing in the world can match a great cup of Tea
Made from the leaves of the Camellia tree
Grown on
the slopes which are beautiful to see
In the Central
Sri Lanka surrounded by sea
Though the country name changed the Tea is the same
Known around the world, ‘cos Ceylon is the name
Loved by so many great people of fame
Oh how I wish I can sip like a Dame
So relaxed do I feel when I sit down to sip
A cup so divine, of Tea on my lip
The aroma and flavour as my cup when I slip
Between
my lips with a light gentle grip
Some people like it with sugar and the milk
Hot is
more common though some like it chilled
Especially
as black and so light as the silk
In a fine China cup, with a gracious rim gild
The benefits of health that Tea seems to kick
Are
becoming well known as journals we pick
Of Health and Nutrition, which form a great nick
In well-being of people who hate to be sick
The tannin of the tea can be a great one to slim
while polyphenols act as the anti-oxidant rim
That
protect from the illnesses that make people dim
Of the great future, with part time in gym
Let us all enjoy a great cup of Tea
Nothing like Dilmah, unblended and free
From
anything that distracts but fresh as can be
Coming
from the island surrounded by sea.
There is nothing in the world that can match a great cup of tea ....
Anne Perera© - 18 June 1998
THE FOOD WE EAT
The food that we eat is a great cocktail we know
Of nutrients which exist as both high and so low
Depending on the needs they will vary as we grow
We select these to suit us with less or with more
Proteins are needed for body building they say
Babies depend on mum’s milk as their way
As adults we need proteins for repair and delay
The loss of our muscles as healthy we stay
CHO stands for carbohydrates, both types
Simple and
complex where each one complies
Where sugar, starch or fiber with energy supplies
For all of our work as day to day comprise
The fats as we know there are the good and the bad
Depending on acid that they form can be clad
Into
saturated, mono and poly-unsaturated fad
They give too many calories that make us not glad
Next group of nutrients is vitamins and more
A D E K
are fat soluble and so
Need fats to supply them while the other group is more
Soluble in water as the C and B grow
B complex vitamins have names of their own
Thiamin,
riboflavin and niacin so on
Pantothenate, pyridoxin
and folacin goes on
The twelfth one is
cyanocobalamin on its own
Minerals are many and they vary a lot
Calcium protects teeth and bones from being rot
Iron as we know makes our blood red, if not,
We end up as anemic and a lethargic lot
Water is also very important for us
As there are many functions that only it does
Excrete our waste through our kidneys no fuss
Cleansing our system and hydrating it does
We need all these nutrients every day of our life
Cereal, fruit and ‘veggies’ plus meat cut with
knife
Cooked into a meal by dear husband or wife
With
variety, moderation and enjoyment of life!