June 13 2007 Front Page

Dunstan Attard Dunstan Attard was born and lives on the Mediterranean island of Malta. A rewarding thirty year career in banking has not dented his enthusiasm for the complex joys of rural frugality, joys that preserve the individuality of the human spirit. His current publication is 'The Island I Call Home', a first-hand poetic testimony of the ongoing conflict between Mediterranean Island Paradise and raw commercial values and how this Paradise looms into sight when the soul withdraws stoically from the indulgence and envy that feed this conflict. featured poem Jasmine boat is that the scent of jasmine my darling that fills this night with moons that floods the virgin maybes with gentle orange tunes that brings to leafy memory the noons in my childhood street full of narrow weightless dreams embracing summer heat among the gentle urban sounds of horses sleeping in their barn remembering the shadows of our tiny footsteps rejoicing in a state of time. is that the smell of jasmine my darling or my longing for those childhood days that to my street i may return through gallant trodden ways knowing that those tiny footsteps lead to your lingering notes where time is forever present in perfect jasmine boats by Dunstan Attard