The Stranger In My Kitchen Poems By Lynn Barany I CAN'T FIND MYSELF I'M NOT SURE WHERE I AM, MY HUSBAND TRIES TO HELP ME IN ANY WAY HE CAN. I KNOW WHEN HE IS HOME HE'S ALWAYS WATCHING WHAT I DO, HE NEVER SAID A THING TO ME WHEN I THREW OUT HIS BRAND NEW SHOES. I CAN'T REMEMBER NAMES OF THINGS LIKE BUTTER, EGGS, OR JAM, IT'S EMBARRASSING FOR ME WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. ONE DAY A TOTAL STRANGER WHO SAID HE WAS MY SON, POURED HIMSELF A GLASS OF JUICE AND INSISTED ON CALLING ME MOM. THE STRANGER IN MY KITCHEN SAYS HIS NAME IS SAM, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. HE ASKS TOO MANY QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT'S HIS MIDDLE NAME, THE STRANGER IN MY KITCHEN THINKS THAT I'M INSANE. A LADY CAME TO MY BACK DOOR LATE ONE AFTERNOON, SHE SAYS SHE LIVES NEXT DOOR BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE. ALL MY CLOTHES ARE PACKED I AM SITTING IN A CAR, THERE ARE TWO NICE LOOKING GENTLEMEN BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.

Hi, Thank you for coming to my poetry site. I hope you've enjoyed reading my poems and will come back again to this humble poet's home -- Island Poetry. Every poem is original and is derived from my daily encounters, thoughts, experiences, relationships and contacts with family, loved ones, friends, nature, the world and people at large. My poetry is simple, uncomplicated, straight-forward and honest coming from the heart, soul, a spiritual presence and obviously God -- Her/Himself. Thus, once the idea and first line of a poem "pops" into my head, the balance of my poems "arrive to me" more or less complete requiring only my immediate and total attention and focus in its writing down, with minimal additional work or effort thereafter. While belonging to the International Society of Poets, I have also been fortunate to have had the support and publication of many of my poems by local community newspapers, faith groups, charitable organizations, and in various anthologies published by the National Library of Poetry and catalogued in the U.S. Library of Congress - Publication Data ISBN 1-56167-256-4 I now live on lower Vancouver Island, off the Canadian west coast. Although originally from the Canadian province of Ontario, I have over the years also lived in the province of Manitoba, as well as Germany. Once again thank you for reading my work, hope you enjoyed and found it relevant also to your own experiences of the living, loving and challenges of everyday life. I truly would appreciate and love to hear from anyone with comments, critiques, suggestions or what-have-you. Email Me - lynnbarany@islandpoetry.com Regards, Lynn Barany (Hanna)