Klishmaklaver

  I'd be lying, If I said, I don't care About what I wear! I am honest, When I say, I notice your shoe, Before I see you! What I expect, Is bigger than your gift, Valued in money, Not your love honey! It's the truth, Nobody can deny, This world is materialistic, Judgemental and plastic. Am I wrong, In blaming society, For the twisted and fake, Facades that we make. Isn't it true, The real self, We don't ever show, Nobody will know! The tongue speaks sweet, But the eyes don't smile, The friends we make, Are for company's sake. A thousand secrets and a million lies, To live one life, How terribly brave, To carry it all in our heart to our grave!

    Book Title:  Mashenka Author:  Agnia Barto Translated from the Russian by Avril Pyman Drawings by  Willi Trubkovich Publisher:  Progress Publishers 1976 Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics My Rating:  ***** 1/100 MASHENKA by Agnia Barto With this book my 6yo son + 3yo son (Together known as 'Udhishu'!) + I have set off to complete the  ‪#‎ 100bookpact‬ . This book is a Russian publication- a 1980 EDITION! So it basically means this book has been in existence even before I was born. The whole of December carries the mood of Christmas for me.(Its also my birthday and hence the celebrational mood is in an overdrive! Teehee.... ) So what better time than this to let my children-Udhishu, inherit this book? I clearly remember Pa gifting me this poetry book among a huge pile of other great books for my third or fourth birthday and then mum would pick out one book for me and read from it. *Nostalgia* I am immense...