by admin | Mar 15, 2025 | Poems for NHS Workers
March 2025 marks 5 years since our lives were turned upside down. I’d like to think we are now right side up again but on reflection, it feels more like sideways and still spinning. We needed the NHS then, we need it now and we will need it in our times to come....
by admin | Sep 8, 2024 | Poems for Carers
if at times people and their ways confuse her mind and use all her spoons, she thought for a time,she could consider them as foodshe discovered sweets, for the occasional high, yet the so sweet / too sour is unpredictable, her body tells her she has had too muchshe...
by admin | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hi Mississippi Bye Mississippi is way she views time each second sweeping in to the next curtain callHi Mississippi Bye Mississippi the self same second bowing an exit asshe crosses the stage Hi Mississippi Bye Mississippi
by admin | Aug 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
It is not lost on me that as a poet who loves words and relies on metaphor has become tired by the overuse of terminology in the workplace. Perhaps it is that these terms are banded about with such high frequency across all the sectors that it’s become another noise...
by admin | Jul 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Roots are everything. They draw you back. When the sap runs back down it returns to the roots, looking to be nurtured, seeking renewal. Memories draw up overlapping lines of time, merging, criss-crossing across the landscapes of Bristol and Somerset and bringing me...