Kathleen Bayer

Richmond, KY, USA

Pen-name: Kathleen Bauly Bayer
A senior - wrote first poem 1948
Born Bury St. Edmunds, England
Educated: Methodist International School.
Trained Childrens’ Nurse - for Medical Missions.
Worked In Agriculture - family’s land during WWII.
Married: Kentucky lawyer - late John B. Bayer
Worked for Greenpeace, took active part in Girl Guides.
Currently fighting ten year justice battle in Kentucky Courts.
60 poems published by National Library of Poetry.
Poem - "Neat Shirring In The Heat" published by Poetry Guild, Bath Ohio.
Poem - "Usha’s Censor" read on "Poetry Today" - Florence Henderson’s Show.
Poem - "Love" read on WICV Cleveland, chosen second from their internet.

Churchill - Our Catalyst

Beloved Bulldog, cherub faced,
Cigar and brandy connoisseur, impish with the victory sign,
A super guy - changed the color of the sky.
Proud and plodding - diplomatic, always tough
A Rock indeed he was for us.
This hovering plover in the rain - made the sun come out again.
When our blood ran cold with fear, he warmed us right back into gear.
As we traveled on anew - the days took on a brighter hue.
Speaker, writer, painter too - many things that he could do.
Our politician, leader, friend
He Spurred us on right to the end - of WWII
A rainbird fluttered round the bend - to victory.
(but broken necks never mend)
His booming voice, taught us to rejoice
in work, in toil, in tears - to shed the canopy of fears
All through those fateful wartime years.
This Anglo-American combination
Turned out to be a real salvation.
Who led us o’er the crooked stile?
Our Winnie with the winsome smile!
Throughout the conflict staged to win
Never, ever should we give in.

Thomas Paine - The Emancipator

Thomas Paine - shall we see a man like him again?
A messenger for rudiments of freedom, our thane.
An eighteenth century fighter - diligent,
A life well spent, bent on denting tyranny.
His "Commonsense" and "Rights of Man"
are paragons to span the human race -
His lament for banishment of despots,
A signal from the commonplace.
His blazon stature stands for right
with arms outstretched beside the river Thet.
His light for all - a golden glow by day
a silver shimmer through the night.
Paine - a quaker, yet a tyrant shaker,
A onetime corset maker.
A nimble figure, full of vigor,
Smasher of an onerous veil.
Guarded by the plying swans, their sails unfurled.
This distinguished Norfolk " Liberty
enlightening the World"
By his star he traveled far - vied and died
to set men free.
His freedom ribbon trailed across the ruthless sea
in the eighteenth century.
His Independence Declaration
spawned spontaneous acclamation -
A man of all time, a star for every clime.

Today

This age of anxiety
a ‘so what’ society,
exempt from propriety.