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A Life Lesson From Soup

Twice A Day

Late night drive on Christmas Eve

The new ‘Neighbourhood Watch’

Social Media guilt tripping - the Christmas ‘gift’ we could all do without.

The REAL Art Of ‘Influencing’

My first poems of Winter

Just a Christmas Card

The Old Lady Who Made Gingerbread

Refuse to be diluted

Dear Santa

Learning to gratefully receive

A Saturday Stroll

AI - The Biggest Lie

Poems of late November

On She Goes

Please be mindful of the gap

‘The Big Weekend’

Poetry

Breaking the taboo of SEND VCB (Violent and Challenging Behaviour) in children.

Memories of a 1980’s Bonfire Night

Poems from a place of strength

A Diamond’s Worth

Patchwork Quilt

Life Raft Syndrome

‘The Hermit’ and a very female search for slivers of silence

Poems from the last couple of weeks

Child’s Play

“Pick a side”

Dealing with Dragons

Make yourself look

A little verse for a glorious Autumn day

My child went to school today

The Blind

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”

A few melancholy poems

The 2 Cheerleaders

A Friday night conversation

A little wander/catch up

A few poems

Congretegate

Wasps and Windows

ULEZ

The Heart That Refused To See

The Greatest Show on Earth

Wear your heart on your sleeve

The world needs diplomats as much as it needs warriors

Poems sensing the end of summer

Stuck in the mud

Poems of strength and love

Flapping

A girl called Karen

Poems for my August state of mind

“End of the Line”

Catch Up

Rain

The Little Boat

Apple

How to Harden

Happy Birthday NHS?

A Capped Abundance

A few poems for the last evening of June

Purpose V Pleasure

My Scottish holiday diary

Travelling Light

Been on my holidays

It’s time to start judging

There’s no perfect time

Poems from a place of love

“Under New Management”

Reflections on photographs of wild flowers I took this week

Three little poems inspired by nature

The Light IN the Tunnel.

The Sandcastle

Poems

The Grass isn’t Greener

“Triggered”

Little People

In celebration of personal power!

Some poems

A little pink flower

Today, I get to….

The inconvenience of convenience

Poems from a tough week

Eurovision, Euro Vision or Eurotrash?

Keep a soft heart

An hour with Ingrid

Corrie

In honour of May

All things must pass?

Poems from this week

Having Principles

One day it rained

Tea, bread and angels

Message from a tulip

The government who cried ‘Wolf’

The unfinished house on Heartache Avenue

It’s just a starling, darling

Quick video catch up

A Wolf named ‘Safety’

Poetry corner

Dancing in the dirt

A pinch of salt

A few bleak poems for Easter Sunday Evening

The soap box gets lonelier

A Spring morning

“If only I could live my life again….”

The value of instinct

A few poems from the last week or so

You have the ‘right’ to NOT vote

An Evil Twin

About a bird

A War on Our World

A poem about Mother’s Day

My Reddest Room

A Spring poem

Auntie Edie

David

Remembering Silas

Melancholy poems for a snowy afternoon

I’m every woman

International Women’s Day

Wonder

Poems for Sunday

The Allotment

The second summer of love

A couple of poems about letting go

It started with a grift

Water

Nine years old

Stop the Spread

A few poems for Saturday Night

One

Carnival of Spring

London

Top of the Bill

Unplanted

My moods this week in poems

Got Brass in Pocket?

‘Banniversary’

My Hair- A Love Story

Bleak love poetry for a full moon

A moth and a butterfly

Ballad of a Weary Winter

Love and Garlic

Andrew Tate

Friday Night Poems

Big Red Flag

The cake you make

A General Update

Poems about people

Little Apple Tree in Winter

The Tiger in the Sky

The wishing well in the woods

January Lace

Poems of January reflection

Poems from this week’s swinging moods

Beware of the cult of ‘My People’

A few words about embracing possibility & a poem

Poems for the emotionally isolated

The Script and the Blank Piece of Paper