Sitemap - 2024 - Mother of Hope

The right to remain silent

Fire

What sort of a person are you?

Gift

Depressing Poems

Roots and Wings

Selected

Cell

Doctors and Orders

Poems that pine for

The Cunts of Red October

The Art of Parties

Poems for the first week of October

Baggage

Poems about ‘real’

‘Tis the season to avoid being brainwashed

The law is no longer an ass, it’s a clown show on a cliff edge

Poems from the edge of black

Ramblings from a brambled lane

Flame

Summer is a hammer

We need to talk about…….no PLEASE not THAT again, it’s all been said.

Exit through The Gift Shop

Hypothetically speaking

The rights of being wronged

One Enduring Sky

What is left?

Get in the ring, LOSERS!

A message to my fellow human beings following the violence in Southport

When they bite the hand that feeds

Let the games begin

Poems born of the parallels of inner and outer worlds

My 2 year anniversary on Substack

The ‘Covid Inquiry’

In appreciation of the form of nature

Don’t Open It

July Lied

Poems from a British Summer state of mind

When winning isn’t *really* winning….

A Proud Non Voter

In appreciation of ‘Alright’

I Kissed A Day

Everyone’s gone (back)to the movies

Center parcs - a love/hate relationship

Poems for a Midsummer full moon (and other stuff)

An alternative Father’s Day message

Farewell, Louise

Reflections on Elections

Post holiday poems

An Education

Return to Quito and heading home

Little Fluffy Clouds

Snorkelling, sharks and a glorious sunset

Morning Calm

Tortoises, Iguanas and bays of blue

My trip to Ecuador - Arrival in Galápagos

My trip to Ecuador

Poems and reflections from a birthday week

Journey

The Rise Of Self Censorship

A Coastal Walk (with seals!)

The Deep End

Owning my dark poetry

Madam

Dips, Crevasses and Hope

Fair

I’m so over the rainbow

Born to be Golden

Poems of contemplation

A Spring Morning In Yorkshire

A Misguided Nostalgia

Some recent poems

International Women’s Day? Let’s start with the basics!

Leap Year

Pisstaking

A poem about Shetland, as requested by a friend

Tiger’s Tooth

A single Crocus

1999

Deer on the hills

The Great Royal Variety Performance

Snowdrops

A heartfelt tribute to Melanie Safka

Remembering Iceland

An Owl for Sunday

Poems from the heart of winter

Cocktail

On The Bus

Poems about Love and Sky

In It Together

The Hall of Mirrors

Advice From A Train