More than a woman – Deb Hawken

How

Before my friends panic, I wrote this years agoand have only now got round to tidying it up.HowHow has it come to this?How have I arrived in this place?A space where I’m scared to be myselfWhere I must hold backMainly because I knowThat no one is to blameOnly timeOnly youthOnly lack of understandingAnd trusting inContinueContinue reading “How”

Daring!

I come home really late (It must be nearly 10 pm) I wear my skirt short, short (A good inch above my knee) I go to a club (Darby and Joan were really nice)I listen to loud music (The Band of the Coldstream Guards) I dice with danger (Cautiously) I live life to the fullContinueContinue reading “Daring!”

You Should Have Seen Her

You really should She may have wrinkles now – and stretch marks She may frown more than she laughs She may not see you as a gift from God No longer be moved by your youthful charms She may appear to be yesterday A mere trickle of the fountain of youth A faint memory ofContinueContinue reading “You Should Have Seen Her”

Me

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com Do you want to know what I’m really like? Deep down below this life Beyond the education and the parenting The schooling and the working The loving and the crying I’m as free as the wind And as light as the air As happy as the sun And asContinueContinue reading “Me”

Ode to Hormones

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Why are you crying? I don’t know (I do but I’m not telling you) Is it something I did? Of course not! (Not half, but you’d think I was daft) Do you feel alright? I do (but that’s no thanks to you) So what’s the matter? I wish I knewContinueContinue reading “Ode to Hormones”

I Am What I Am

Photo by Jeffrey Czum on Pexels.com I tossed up whether to include this poemas it’s far from being one of my best. I decided that I would as it representsnot just the discovery of poetry, but howoften poets begin and hone their skillsworking out what’s going on inside them.I would have been desperate when IContinueContinue reading “I Am What I Am”

Enigma

Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com Darkness that is cold and lonelyWords that keep the past aliveEvoking dreams of once and onlyA verse to help our language thriveLiving through a world of rhymeReleasing souls once trapped by barsFreed by stanzas line by lineSo they can dance among the starsA poet’s jobTo plumb the feelingsEmotions areContinueContinue reading “Enigma”

Tell Me Your Psyche’s Song

Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com I wrote this poem whilst observing the very public break-up of a couple who had generated such hope for the future. The woman appeared to becoming progressively more lonely, isolated, and eventually lost. I felt for her. I just wanted to understand how she might be feeling. Was itContinueContinue reading “Tell Me Your Psyche’s Song”

Deciduous Waltz

Photo by Dasha on Pexels.com This is one of my favourite poems. It was written at Bath Spa University whilst doing the Creative English degree that I then abandoned for History, on the advice of my tutor who said that these degrees were for people trying to write, not those who could write. In theContinueContinue reading “Deciduous Waltz”

Winners and Losers

Photo by Jill Wellington on Pexels.com I thought you had me beatenYou didn’tI thought you’d broken meYou hadn’tI thought you’d diminished me to nothingExtinguished my lightRendered me powerlessYetYou made me worthless in your eyesNever my ownSomehow I held onInside me there was a small but powerfulNoA tiny part standing backObserving youKnowing that you were wrongButThereContinueContinue reading “Winners and Losers”