This year is a very special year for me. I call it “my year of awesomeness” and one of the things that I have done to make it really awesome, is to surround myself with things and people that really mean something to me and rid my life of things that take away from my…
Read moreNaPoWriMo – Day 14 Yellow Roses
Yellow Roses Don’t give me red roses, They frighten me. I don’t want declarations of undying love And deep passion. So please don’t give me red roses. Their darkness scares me! I’d much rather have yellow roses, That talk of sunlight, And friendship, And all that’s light and bright. So if you have to give…
Read moreNaPoWriMo – day 13 Drunken Nostalgia
Drunken Nostalgia Chilled beer Warm summer afternoons Abba playing in the background. Voulez vous ? Oh yes I would! I would so go back to those days, Of LP records, And yelling out the lyrics at the top of our voices! Of making jugsful of Rasna And suddenly I am running barefoot On…
Read moreNational Poetry Writing Month
I just realised that though I have been writing poems for ages, decades in fact, there is so much I don’t know about the world of poets and poetry. Today, I got a post on Facebook informing me that April is National Poetry Writing Month. And I said, “Wow! Can I do it? Write a poem…
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