Maybe it was the grey, you know The grey that made me buy you so Adrift among a sea of blues A raft of overbearing hues Your slate-grey top, those golden crescents Slowly drew me to your presence Your rigid shape defied finesse A beacon of middle-agedness I swept you up, I looked both ways […]
LIFE: Two Battered Shoes – a poem for the end of term
Two battered shoes sit in the hall Bereft after a year at school The right one sighs, the left one slumps Comparing scuffs and scrapes and bumps A year of battles, playground pacts A year of daydreams, whispered chats A year of friends, a year of foes A year squeezed round ten growing toes A […]
Life: A Poem For Mother’s Day: Every Bath Interrupted
Every bath interrupted, privacy gone to shreds, Fielding intimate questions while shaving my legs. Every lie-in abandoned, every elbow to the head, THE SUN IS AWAKE! Everyone’s in my bed. Every trip to the toilet is private no more, When two sets of eyeballs appear at the door. Every meal time thwarted, the riot act […]
Family: Tomorrow you start in Reception (a poem for my son)
Tomorrow you start in Reception, The calendar tells me it’s so. It’s been scribbled in red for months now, But wait: where did that time go? I bought your uniform, your shoes, your PE kit; Spent hours labelling all of your clothes. We’ve tried them all on in the front room, But tell me: where […]
Life: Why I’ll Never Be A Proper Blogger (A Ballad For Bloggers)
It’s been a weird few weeks. Since being nominated for a couple of blogging awards (which is obviously both amazing and astonishing in equal measure), I’ve been thrown head-first into the world of Being A Proper Blogger, having mainly been making it up as I went along until now. It’s fair to say it’s been […]
Family: You Are Enough (A Mantra For Mothers)
It’s a learning curve like no other – The day when you become a mother. The days are long, the nights are hard, A sleepless stare’s our calling card. A thousand voices chiming in, It’s hard to hear above the din. But this I know – this much is true, This time is yours, it’s […]
Family: The A-Z of Modern Motherhood (A Poem For New Mums)
A is for alcohol – remember that stuff? You’re now a lightweight, so one glass is enough. B is for birth plans that don’t manifest, And ridiculous battles over bottle or breast. C is for Calpol – you’ll raid all the shelves, For teething and fevers and everything else. D is for dignity, rapidly lost, […]
Family: On Leaving The House (A Poem)
When your day starts off wrong and you don’t even know Where the car keys have gone when you’re ready to go Your coffee’s gone cold and your hair looks like sh*t You can’t find a comb and the toddler’s got nits You forgot the packed lunch and the milk’s all run out He can’t […]