by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems for Healing
the year we wished we could pack up banish into the loft or post off and discard to a distant land how to make sense of a time where the only gift was darkness the forest whispers ‘do nothing’ the next year will come will always, steadily, reliably wrap...
by admin | Jan 16, 2022 | Poems for Healing
We got matching yellow hats that day. From Wilko’s I think, plus a hand towel each. Oh, and we dropped by a charity shop, rummaged hastily… ‘There must be a couple here somewhere?’ – emerging exuberant with our finds! One over-sized, simply enormous,...
by admin | Jan 16, 2022 | Poems for Healing
The cavalry is not coming. I remember telling myself this. Distress can do that to you. Give you falsehoods. Make you forget. In the end though, I found a way to ‘find my own grit, in my own time’ (a beautiful phrase in Katherine May’s book ‘Wintering’)....
by admin | Jan 15, 2022 | Poems for Healing
There came a day when I was driving and for no known reason, and rather embarrassingly, I thought of the 00’s song ‘Hero’ by Enrique Inglesias. (https://open.spotify.com/track/24Gxm7Eh7tO83E26LG0CsY ) Or at least a few lines from it. Almost against my better reasoning...
by admin | Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
What takes up space in our homes? In our lives? In our time? How do we know when we have run out of space? Or when a little space makes itself known? From time to time I run out of space and I only realise when a little has been clawed back, when I catch myself...