Some of the Poems and Ramblings of Khulu Chris

By Chris Mandley

I had never written much more than a letter home since I left school,
Then you meet someone special.. It opens the heart and the mind,
The rest is, as people say, history.



Chris Mandley

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466943346

Chris Mandley

I was born in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England ,in May 1955. I left school at fifteen with no qualifications. Everything I have done and achieved I have done by myself off my own back. I have a diploma in management. I have done many jobs in my life and met many people along the way. I started working part time when I was thirteen, delivering papers in the morning before school then papers in the evening after school. I have been working ever since. I have been a soldier, window cleaner, security staff, and I have fixed cars, managed garages and workshops, driven buses. I am white, and my wife is a black African, all good life experiences. People who know me, know I tell you “how it is.” Just ask my previous management, they know I am not a yes-man. I have always read and thought I had a book inside me. When I write, I have no control over what trips onto the page; it just happens. Please read and enjoy. If I offend, I am sorry. If you like what you read, be happy and tell your friends. Some of the writings are poems but could easily be songs or prayers. The ramblings are general observations of life and the things the way I see them; take from them all what you will. Finally, I would like to dedicate this book to my wife Thandi, all my family and friends and especially Brenda who was my catalyst.

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Contents

WARNING LETTER – TO – ALL – WORLD - LEADERS

+++ I LOST MY WAY+++

WHO ARE YOU?

XX - A MOTHER WEEPS - XX

DEEP IN THOUGHT

FAREWELL TO MUM

–-FLOWERS AT THE ROADSIDE–

GOING NOWHERE FAST

HA! CHOVA DRIVERS

I CHOSE YOU

IRONIC ENNIT

—ITS ALWAYS OTHER MOTHERS SONS—

JENI

MY HEAD IS CLEAR

NO FUSS, NO MESS THE END

X-X-X-X-NOT TO BE-X-X-X-X

REG THE EDGE- THE NIGHT HE NEARLY MET HIS MAKER

REMEMBERANCE DAY

SWEET COLLEEN

THAT’S ME!

THE POWER GOES OFF

- -TRAITOR-HERO-TERRORIST- -

WATCH OUT - I THOUGHT I WAS HEALTHY

WHITE COFFINS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I Dedicate this Book To

Brenda Richards

You Unchained and Freed my Mind

WARNING LETTER – TO – ALL – WORLD - LEADERS

Speeches full of brave words, but no action!

Politicians and Governments paying lip service to each other and just Talk the Talk, but, to a man none of them is brave enough toDo! or Say what they mean, applying the usual double standards.

Worried only about their image and careers and not one of them has the courage to seriously consider ever Walking the Walk!

The cries of anguish,