Since retirement, I have begun writing poems and short stories as an emotionally rewarding hobby. The following have been published:

Woman's World, The Woman's Weekly magazine.
"Your Christmas Traditions are so Very Special"

The Abbotsford Learning Plus Society's "Who Will Wind the Watches", stories by British Columbia Seniors. My contribution was "Wartime Memories".

The Langley Writers' Guild Chapbooks:
"Rendezvous in Reykjavik"
"The Case of the Nervous Nun"
"Chantilly Lace"

The following poem is in the form of a Ghazal. The two icons used are a heart shape as a symbol of peacemaker and a treble clef as a symbol of harmony.

On top of the black pot-bellied stove a pot of chicken soup is prepared by "peacemaker"
To bring "harmony" to angry family members who squirm in each other's presence

Like clouds, we hover between the world and the heavens
Between the actual and the void

The soothing aroma of nourishment fills the air and
Softens the mutual anguish around the table

It never did work
But "peacemaker" was remembered for at least trying.

-Ann Robertson