Poetry

About the Book

You ask me what is my book about, well as a seventy-year-old sentimentalist, my poems are a collection of the many thoughts and impressions I have formed over the years, I find nature cruel but incredibly beautiful. I would say my poems reveal my deep affection for human frailty and the close bonds we share with animal and plant life.

Nothing is more fragile than the spirit of mankind,
as good and evil battle in each subconscious mind.
Change is hardly noticed until friend or lover dies,
then we weep and fear mortality whilst saying our good-byes.

Roan.

About the Author

Roan is the pen name for Ann Beard, born in South London, 1944. Her father was killed in a tragic accident whilst working in Battersea Power Station in 1948. Completing a basic secondary school education, Ann left school at age 15 to work for a local pharmaceutical company. She married in 1967 with three children, two born in England and one born in New Zealand, after immigrating in 1972. She is a keen gardener with a passion for arts and crafts, novels, music (easy listening and light opera), and easy-to-read poetry that simply takes one’s breath away. She finds inspiration from life nature and poets such as Australian Henry Lawson (his poem “Black Bonnet”), Australian David Lewis Paget (his poem “Daughters”), Sara Teasdale (her poem “Only in Sleep”), and so many more. Ann writes purely as a form of self-expression and hopes her poetry (never previously published) will provide others with as much pleasure as she received from gathering her thoughts.