Make Do and Mend
Please don’t be nice to me, I don’t think I would cope, I’d burst into tears, and lose all my hope. I’m back of the queue, I’ve placed myself there, I won’t move forward, with...
View ArticleDublin
Apologies for my lack of presence – I am very busy with work and a room refurb – I hope to be back soon!! Watch this space! In the interim time, another oldie – one of my readers reminded me of this...
View Article…and the Clock Struck Twelve
The clock struck twelve and you were gone. No family home, I had no Mum; why did you leave me on my own? You should have known, I should have gone. The days went fast and slow, time...
View ArticleSatsuma Tears
I am the festive lodger, pushed from pillar to post. Always someone else’s Christmas, fake smiles to a congenial host. I’m as shafted as the fairy, stuck on an artificial tree;...
View ArticleBlack Rose
The last of the summer rays blush gently on my cheek. Tears fall like dew from the morning rose. The flower blossoms, the flower blooms. Slowly it fades as petals fall one by one the...
View ArticleSilhouettes and Soliloquies
I’m hiding in the shadows, it’s where I long to be, drifting into dreamscapes, singing sad soliloquies. I have my other life, you see? I’ve lived it since a child; It’s not quite real...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Me
Do you know, the other side of me? Where the grass is greener, and the soul is darker. Do you know only, my second face? Not like the rest, the one I keep for best. Do you know, if this is...
View ArticleDeath of a Minor
I remember the daily grind through the Peaks; from Hillsborough to hospice. Morphine induced twilight hours, brittle brown heather hair, cascading watery cataracts, crashing, weeping, winding....
View ArticleLily
I kick the dishwasher door shut with my right foot. Slam the mugs into their rightful place without a backward glance, click the washer onto spin. Will it never end? Then… pulled up...
View ArticleRumi
I said what about my eyes? “Keep them on the road” I said what about my passion? “Keep it burning” I said what about my heart? “Tell me what you hold inside it?” I said pain and sorrow He said: “Stay...
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