Badly

How do you manage screen time for yourself? I may be a wrinkly but if it’s modern it fascinates me. As soon as mobile phones appeared my fingers started to itch. I needed to know what this was about. Plus I did live in the country having moved from London, where there was a telephoneContinueContinue reading “Badly”

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”

Just ‘Hangin’ Around

Gustav Klimt “The Kiss” – Belvedere Museum Vienna I don’t know when this slightly crazy departure from my normal poetry came to me, but it did. I found it the other day when I was finally keeping my promise to myself to get all my old writing, handwritten, word processed, typed, up onto a modernContinueContinue reading “Just ‘Hangin’ Around”

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”

Choices Choices

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself? This isn’t an easy answer for me as there have been many challenges in my life, mostly emotional which affected my mental wellbeing. Originally I set myself the task of moving on from anxiety, but the problem I had was that I didn’t know whatContinueContinue reading “Choices Choices”

Badminton Plus Plus Plus

What is your favorite hobby or pastime? There are too many wonderful things to do in life for there to be just one favourite thing, and we should all do our utmost to feel and be that way. Firstly we weren’t born to struggle – who actually invented money, Government, and work? The latter beingContinueContinue reading “Badminton Plus Plus Plus”

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”

Happy Things

What details of your life could you pay more attention to? Focusing on happiness whenever and wherever you can find it changes your vibration. Looking on the bright side of life attracts you to those things. We’re not made to live in the darkness of a troubled mind, unfortunately that’s what our society focuses on.ContinueContinue reading “Happy Things”

Reclaiming My Life

What’s your #1 priority tomorrow? Life can become all about others, a place where you fit in where you can, wherever you can, but don’t seem to appear very often. This isn’t good for you, it isn’t good for those around you, and it definitely isn’t good for the younger generation. Be careful what youContinueContinue reading “Reclaiming My Life”