NaPoWriMo day 19
Another rough draft. I really should make more effort to polish these poems up before I publish them. I suppose it’s the nature of something like NaPoWriMo, the purpose is, for me at least, to stir my...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo day 23
It’s been a few days since I felt able to write poetry but I think I’ve got something forming. I will leave the house today I could leave the house today, It’s lovely outside. The sun is bright, It’s...
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I’m not having a lot of success with this poetry thing.
Not that I want to make excuses, but I’m knackered. This new work schedule and my infection has knocked me for six. I don’t think I was ready to go from two to five days a week. I’m nodding off as I...
View ArticleInterview cancelled by migraine. A poem.
I wrote a complaint in verse, because I felt like it. Damn it! I was supposed to be at an interview this morning But, my body is a bitch. Two weeks in to a cold, still feeling awful. Too hot, and last...
View ArticleYule
The first night is here; The first of twelve days and nights when the world stands still. The candles are lit, the house aglow, paper chains and trees decorating my home. While we wait. Outside it’s...
View ArticleMiddle of the night
I get poetic when I can’t sleep, apparently, so here’s an acrostic poem about anxiety. Can’t sleep. Anxious and twitchy. Not sure what’s going on in my head. Thinking, thinking. It’s too much, my brain...
View ArticleFriday morning
Bin day And I forgot to put the recycling boxes out again. I think I might go back to sleep.
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2016 has begun
And I’m not doing it this year. I want to focus on finishing my novel and editing the first two if I get the chance, plus I’m helping a friend by editing her novel and I have that MA to study for....
View ArticlePoem: I should have known
I should have realised Long ago There’s something a little off About me. Everyone knew how To act To react To interact Inate instructions calling time Picking up the rules and the rhyme. No one told...
View ArticlePoetry written at Autscape 2023
I only got home from Autscape at 5.15pm on Thursday. It was amazing. I learnt so much from the most amazing people. It was a wonderful experience, among autistic people being themselves. People...
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