Let me start by saying that cancer defines me. I don’t know if I “let” it define me or if I have chosen for it to define me. Either way, the outcome is the same. My Tumblr and some of my other online profiles are simply a string of self-definitions: Writer. Buddhist. Geek. Cancer survivor.…
Sometimes you need someone to yell at you to get off the internet and stop reading things that are psychologically/emotionally harmful to you. And sometimes you’re by yourself and you have to be that person who yells at you. It’s difficult. But turn off the computer and go to bed.
blue skies reflected in the whites of your eyes in darkness the breeze of your exhale echoes the slowly forming haze of one too many broken days I prise your toes apart to give them each more space – they creak out of place
Send me snail mail Because I’m far too impatient. Give me something worth waiting for, I crave the excitement. Send me snail mail, I’m on the edge of my seat. I’m waiting to be picked up Or crushed beneath your feet. Send me snail mail, Any day now will do. Tell me I’m worth the…
Extract from my first chapbook, Empowerthy. Available on Lulu.com: ow.ly/NE8g1 Free shipping until 4th June with code JUNESHIP and a portion of profits donated to Lynch Syndrome UK. I submitted the book to Amazon today so it should be on there in like, six to eight weeks. Trying to get the word out so if…
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Back in time to a newer me, when I was more of what I chose to be A cleaner slate, a darker sky simpler times a more reachable high A longer lifespan shorter eyesight not noticing days pass living for the night Now present me turning up the track would do anything for a clear…
My first chapbook Empowerthy is now available on Lulu.com! I’m so excited and pleased with how it’s turned out. The theme is empowerment and empathy, with poems about my experience as a cancer survivor with Lynch syndrome. There are a lot of poems I hope will resonate with others, and I hope some uplifting ones…
I love how the friend I mentioned in the latest post basically answered the poem I had written in my previous post. <3
Spending the evening starting to plan my first self-published poetry collection! Exciting stuff. At the moment it looks like it’s going to be around 40 poems/pages, which is sort of a bit longer than an average chapbook and shorter than a typical collection. I think going for a chapbook length would be better, so I…