NaPoWriMo day twenty five. Here is poem number twenty four, it’s called New Baby… Once they were a couple who stayed out late and drank in bars when the mood took them. Once they slept late and whiled away weekends pursuing hobbies that gave them pleasure enough. Now they are parents. Late nights areContinue reading “New Baby”
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Lullaby Lady
NaPoWriMo day twelve and here’s poem number twelve. It’s called Lullaby Lady Hush Baby hush, no more tears. You’ve cried enough to fill the day. Shush Baby shush, prick up your ears the Lullaby Lady is on her way. She’ll rock you gently in your bed singing to you low and sweet and softly kissContinue reading “Lullaby Lady”
The Bird Watcher
Day Six and poem number two . This poem is called The Bird Watcher Picking through the thicket he stops at the sight of beating wings close-packed at the feeders. Chaffinches; Great Tits; Yellowhammers.
Second Chance
NaPoWriMo Day 27. Is it really Day 27 already? What will I do with my evenings after Wednesday? Anyway today’s poem is called Second Chance. Second Chance Holding her grandchild for the first time she thinks to herself this is a second chance. Maybe this time, I will do things better. Maybe this time, IContinue reading “Second Chance”
Let me sit by the canal side
NaPoWriMo Day 26. Today’s poem is called Let me sit by the canal side. I am quite fond of a nice canal walk & we have many canals in Birmingham as a result of our industrial heritage. I thought I’d make it extra difficult for myself by writing in rhyming couplets which I have toContinue reading “Let me sit by the canal side”
Sleepless
NaPoWriMo Day 19 and today’s poem is called Sleepless, actually written at roughly three-thirty this morning. Is the NaPoWriMo thing beginning to get to me I wonder? Sleepless It’s one-thirty in the morning and I’m lying here eyes open trying not to think about things I shouldn’t think about two-thirty in the morning and theContinue reading “Sleepless”
Hazel Ward 