It is the end of another year, I feel I have achieve much and hope to continue in the New Year – maybe get some more of those almost finished project out there for you all to enjoy 🙂 Hope you are all having a lovely festive season 🙂 And there is still time to […]
A pressure seemed to clamp down on my head and a strange, clang that reverberated through my bones and awoke me from a deep slumber, I felt muddled and then the horror struck me – we were sealed in. Panic struck me, I couldn’t breath, I felt the panic tighten around my chest, I moaned […]
Charcole (First published on Turquoise Monster) We collect sticks We are refugees We walk miles to make charchole We are employed to carry heavy sacks We are hungry and care not what’s legal We need fuel ourselves We are hoping to feed our children We are stopped We fear We are pushed to the ground […]
Darren Darren sat and watched the sky, he often did. It helped him dream and think of the past times when he was happy, when the world had seemed to be on his side. But that had been a long time ago now and he hadn’t been left with much, just the clothes on his […]
Plasticine [Published on Turquoise Monster and The Oxford International Women’s Festival Anthology] In the beginning I was a new pack of plasticine All rainbow colours in neat rows But People took pieces of me And began molding me as they thought I should be My Parents Teachers, doctors Neighbours, the Church, friends, Bullies and boyfriends […]
Pam looked out of the window as she did every morning, but instead of the lovely view of the hills with the summer grass sawing upon it she saw a horror of mind bending proportions. There were daffodils and green grass with the beginnings of little white clover flowers – this upset her greatly as […]
In October 2009 I made a little book of poems from ideas Jeany gave me and made a little hand drawn booklet – after much pleading of people I produced an electronic copy last year with some added poems. Now there is a physical booklet/book and to celebrate there is going to be a real […]
Pink Flapping Monster (First published on Turquoise Monster) Upon a Welsh Mountain Side Above a disused slate quarry Below a turgid sky In a fine hazy drizzle A monstrous pink flapping monster Perched on the edge About to take flight Fear sticks in the throat Fear jellifies the knees Fear pancake flips the stomach Fear […]
Oggy, Babbit and Bubba were Mary’s special friends, they went everywhere with her. In the morning Mary would wake up hugging Oggy, Babbit or bubba and would then tell them about her dreams. When daddy came into the room she would stretch up her arms and called ‘Daddy! Out! Out!’ and once in his arms […]
Light through the Window (first published on Blue Monster) The room was light in a sort of half gloom that struck Eric as odd; the furniture seemed to melt in upon itself. The light was a pathetic dim grey that seemed to diffuse reluctantly into the room rather than spill or pour as he felt […]