Depression · mental health · Poetry · Writing

Normal


Feeling normal. Being normal. School run, washing clothes, swimming lessons, food. Normal life just rolling on But everything is wrong. Feeling normal. Being normal. Sleeping badly, crazy dreams, anxious, frightened, tired. Normal life just rolling on But everything is wrong. Finding normal. Adapting normal. New routines, exercises, good days, bad days, change. Normal life just… Continue reading Normal

Life · Poetry

Bad Poetry Day


This might be a crime, It didn't take much time, But what better way To mark Bad Poetry Day?

Just For Fun · Market Drayton Writer's Club · Poetry · Writing · Writing Workshop

I Am Tori, Defeater Of Socks.


It was Writer's Club at my local library last night and we were looking at the poem 'I am Taliesin' by the infamous and legendary bard of the same name (he was real but his story is interwoven with the magic of the Arthurian legends). It is a poem of self-pride and boastfulness and is… Continue reading I Am Tori, Defeater Of Socks.

NaPoWriMo · Poetry · Writing

#NaPoWriMo – The Final Day


April has been a busy old month with the London Marathon, Christenings and Caius was away with work for a lot of it. Through it all I have kept up with writing a poem a day (more or less, I wrote a couple late) and one or two of them are even okay! I do… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo – The Final Day

Depression · Family · Life · NaPoWriMo · Poetry · Writing

Unpacking ~ A #NaPoWriMo Poem


I wrote this yesterday (25th April) after spending a lot of the day sorting through bags and boxes of stuff from when I was 16 through university and up to breaking up with the Small's father. It was a surreal kind of day with lots of emotions floating around and both happy and sad memories… Continue reading Unpacking ~ A #NaPoWriMo Poem