Sam Alexandra Rose

Tag: writing

  • “I write songs I can’t listen to”

    “I write songs I can’t listen to.” – Professor Green

    Me too. I write poems I can’t read.
    I want to write poems I can’t read.
    They would probably be my best poems.

  • Discount on my chapbook

    My chapbook is available with 25% off this weekend! Just use code GWW25 at the checkout.

    Here’s the link: http://ow.ly/PfMEh

    And an extract:

    And a big, big hug for anyone who checks it out – you are awesome! <3

  • geography

    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

  • Planning my chapbook

    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 have some cutting down to do. This is going to be tricky.

  • My Patreon Account

    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 subscribers. That’s stuff I don’t put on my Tumblr (https://www.writersam.co.uk) or anywhere else. There are some cool rewards as well for people who pledge $20 or more per month, like a free copy of my poetry collection when it comes out, and more!

    The link to my Patreon is https://www.patreon.com/writersam so please take a look, and if you’d like to read more of my work I would love it if you subscribed. $1 per month is less than a cup of coffee, and the benefits will last like, loads longer. I would love, love, love to make my writing a full-time job, so if you do subscribe, I cannot thank you enough!

    Much love,

    writersam

  • Sometimes it’s okay

    Sometimes it’s okay
    to write a poem and then
    throw it away.

    You don’t need to keep what kills you.

  • sympathy for sciatica

    Isn’t it interesting how we can talk to and sympathise with each other about bruises, broken arms, accidents and so on, but we can’t do the same with things we really need to talk about, like life-threatening diseases? I stepped on a plug last week and spent the following days walking around like a drunk hunchback in slow motion. It hurt. A lot. But I didn’t really mind at all. So that’s where this has come from.

    I don’t want
    sympathy for sciatica
    because I know what it is
    and it’s not much to me 

    and what’s all the fuss over a foot?
    A bruise, a cut, it’s nothing much –
    soon it’ll be nothing to me 

    I don’t need tuts and shaking heads
    for being unable to drag my leg out of bed 

    Anything I can see is no real issue to me –
    a twinge is no big deal
    and pain is okay to feel
    if I know its rhyme and reason 

    But fear is the worst pain
    Fear is the sharpest stab in my side,
    the most familiar ache 

    I would welcome a broken arm instead
    A fracture is just that – a fraction of a problem 

    So I don’t want sympathy for sciatica
    I don’t need support because of my limp
    or anything solved by sitting down

    because none of that will drive me underground

  • Together

    We haven’t even left for work yet
    but already I’m thinking about
    coming back home to you.

  • bouncing

    Yes, okay, I am
    emotionally vulnerable –
    and what?

    I am tired.
    Tired from bouncing from happily
    oblivious to
    diving headfirst into this minefield;
    from straining to ignore this
    and just being,
    to taking ownership and weathering it and
    raising awareness of it. I am tired
    and I don’t know which way I will
    bounce next.

  • Guest Blog Post At IHC.com

    I had another guest blog posted, this time over at IHadCancer.com, musing about the positive and negative effects cancer has had on my life (yes, there are one or two positives!).

    Check it out here:

    http://www.ihadcancer.com/h3-blog/03-21-2015/What-Would-My-Life-Be-Like-Without-Cancer

    Thank you for reading. 🙂

    people keep saying
    how strong I am and
    I’m slowly starting
    to believe them.