I received an amazing message today. It might not sound quite so amazing to other people, but it has made me feel so happy and empowered and excited. I was talking to my friend about all the things I want to do – travelling, different and unusual things, spontaneous things – and this was his…
Tell me I’m amazing and strong and how if you were me you’d be proud because you don’t know how you would have coped. Tell me I’m an inspiration, because something good has to have come from this. Tell me something that will make it all worth it.
You know you’ve been playing The Sims too much when you hear a baby cry on TV and automatically think “they’d better go look after the baby in a few seconds or the social services lady will come and take it away”.
Today I was reminded that I’m actually pretty laid back and that most of the time I don’t worry about little things, because the bigger things I sometimes worry about (yanno, like death and shit (sometimes literally shit)) make other smaller worries pale in comparison. Sometimes I forget that’s what I’m all about, and am…
Life has turned you into a jumper and not the knitted kind but the kind of jumper who jumps at the chance to pick up a knife or miscount your dosage and if I had known life was going to turn out this way I would have told you never to grow up but what…
I am awoken by the call of a wood pigeon. I don’t know what the call is regarding, and neither does he. It doesn’t matter. I think he’s trying to tell me that a good day is ahead. I believe him. He should know.
I drove past the Marie Curie Field of Hope today and almost every daffodil …
Hello! I have set up a Patreon account for my poetry! If you don’t know what Patreon is, it’s a subscription service for creators. Readers can pledge a certain amount of money per month (anything from $1 or more – it’s up to you!) and get access to exclusive poetry by me, available only to…
Sometimes it’s okay to write a poem and then throw it away. You don’t need to keep what kills you.