Life

  This poem follows on from ‘Forget me not’.  I went back to visit my old school and my old family home, having missed it […]

  We moved around a lot when I was a child.  After moving from one home to another and starting another new school I was […]

I stood alone, in the sudden silence. The doors had closed and the laughter was cut. I stood alone with the air around me. Inside […]

Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. Behold, I see his face is getting older. His actions speak more loudly than the word I’ve seen […]

What’s the time? The time is now 30 years or so since then 20 years or more till when Big hand dragging little hand Half […]

Nothing with nothing. The Wasteland in a wasteland The nightmare in a dreamland. Dancing and dream, but no land. The letters but no lights. The […]

There’s a sadness now. All the things I always knew I know now. All the things I knew were true They’re true now. When the […]

Ode to Nigella. It is cold in this room There’s a bad a smell of mould It’s the best I can get Nothing for me, […]

A few years ago my husband was critically ill and ended up in hospital full of drugs and hallucinating.  Patrick was in the bed opposite […]