MEMORIES One simple word, yet, for anyone & everyone that can go through their life without the cruel two-letter one, “dreaded dementia” or the equally bad three-letter one ” Old-Timer’s Disease” (Alzheimer’s), this one, rather beautiful word is super-important in it’s ability to help one to “recall” past experiences, and even though these experiences may sometimes be sad ones, as this particular original song of mine, suggests, more often than not, helps you to get-over a previous love, who, perhaps walked out on you, and because, as they say ” Time wounds all heels” oops!!, sorry folks, but they WERE “high-heels”. Anyway, cut the chronic phrases Des. & get on with the lyrics of this song which could be well-recorded by YOU.!( my reader). Call me, if you are interested. D.K.F.C. “MEMORIES” (that haunt me). MEMORIES THAT HAUNT ME, MEMORIES OF YOU WITH EACH ONE I WONDER COULD YOU BE ...

CHILDREN WITH CANCER 2 by Desmond Kelly Following my recent “story” on the sad, BUT hopeful subject above, I now send out this very important plea to each & every one of the readers of both the Lanka Times Newspaper and our “on-line” eLanka website. The ” new wing’ of the Monash Hospital in Clayton Vic. dedicated especially to children with this dreaded disease could be classified as “sad”, perhaps, BUT, more importantly hopeful, because I do believe in “phrases” & especially the good ones “where there is life, there is hope. My plea to all our readers is this. While “Cancer” does not discriminate between men or women, hits primarily the adults of both sexes, is either terminal or can possibly be “cured” but only after months of drastic treatments of chemo-therapy and/or radium, from personal experience, (I have had, & beaten the big “C” twice), I can tell ...

” THE REASON BEING “ I loved you dear, right from the start Why did you leave and break my heart How could you share your love with someone new But I won’t ask you to explain If you come back to me again The reason being, I’m still in love with you I’m still in love with you & you know it But without you, honey, how can I show it Won’t you give our love a chance to start anew So, come back darling, ease this pain I need you in my arms again The reason being, I’m so in love with you. Lyrics & Music by Desmond Kelly. ...

” POACHERS’ PENALTY” by Desmond Kelly “the Star of elanka ” It has finally happened.”The boot is on the other foot” Entire “species” of animals are on the brink of total extinction. It is now an established fact that in about a decade( and that is but the “blink of an eye”), African Elephants will no longer be seen in the Land that gave them birth, such is the wanton slaughter of these great beasts. The huge ivory tusks will finally be only “wishful thinking” on the part of the “mongrel bloody collectors” & poachers who do the dirty work for these “money-hungry bastards”. Rhino-horns will soon be unavailable to be “powdered” and used as an aphrodisiac & dozens of other beautiful animals & birds slain with no thought given to their possible extinction in the near future. This has happened recently in Zimbabwe. A confirmed “report” has been circling ...

OF ALL THE FOOLISH THINGS I’VE DONE Everyone of us have done some silly things from time to time. Not all of us, however, can “detail” them in “rhyme”. Especially for my Lankan/Aussie readers :- “OF ALL THE FOOLISH THINGS I’VE DONE “ Of all the foolish things I’ve done I had to fall in love with you Now, that you’ve had your share of fun It’s left me feeling sad & blue And I can’t sleep a wink at night My dreams still haunt me when I do Of all the foolish things I’ve done I had to fall in love with you Of all the foolish things I’ve said I had to swear my love for you But you just laughed at me instead And proved that you could be untrue You’re cheating heart will have to learn And then you’ll cry the way I do Of all ...

THE “PRESIDENT-PAST” by Desmond (Kelly from Colombo). “The Star of eLanka” Not for another couple of months, thank God, but the more I see of the “ones” up-coming, (personally, I don’t care for either of them), the more I feel that Barak Obama has certainly been the BEST PRESIDENT of the United States of America. This writer is not the type who “jumps on bandwagons”, I have already written a couple of articles on this President who is about to bow-out, in November, this year. Barak Obama has been, and always will be, an extremely intelligent guy, charming, in his approach to people, both officially and unofficially, caring, about the Country he loves and “Presides” over, careful, with the “POWER” that he possesses ( exactly as President John F.Kennedy was during the Cuban Missile Crisis), & altogether, a President with an unmistakeable”presidential bearing” every time he walks in to “give ...