Poetry

What if we don’t …?’

What if we don’t argue? What if we don’t fight? What if we don’t insist only one of us is right? What if we don’t fall into the patterns...

Sunrise without singing

Black night diminishes. The speck of light we anticipated grows. The uniqueness of each day reflected in the magic of its beginning....

Picture prompt - see image

We traverse the stairway. Visits to the past mingled with steps into the future. History lies at the foot of the stairs. We take the...

If I were invisible ...

If I were invisible, I wonder what I’d do? I would stand on rooftops so I could see the view I’d wander through the park and push the...

The True Spirit of Christmas

Take assorted relatives. Task to gather and wrap parcels of unknown seasonal content and write messages to one another in exchangeable...

The Environment

It's poetry day and our rhyme's being spent Talking about the environment We use things and throw them away We're destroying the world,...

Rainbow's Red Poetry Book

This is my poetic introduction to my book, which is named for my Instagram handle Poetic Rainbow. You will find me in moments of anger I...

Instructions to remember

To mark the 90th anniversary of Brightlingsea Lido, poets and writers were asked to capture the occasion in 90 words or characters in...

The Bungling Blackwood's

Owr Billy’s up for handling he went and lost the swag. When he crossed the motorway someone made off with his bag Owr Mandy shot her...

Imagining a poet

Poets in my head write with quills on parchment, in a room lit by a lantern, a fire in the grate. They pen the words they cannot speak,...

Lily's Writing Life