Hello friends and fellow writers!
It’s International Poetry Month this month and one of my poems has been published in a wonderful e-magazine too! So I thought I would share PRESSURE with you here and say that if you enjoy author interviews, writing tips and poetry you will absolutely LOVE Double The Books E-Magazine too so take a look at the links below to connect with them.
PRESSURE was inspired by the pressure we all feel to do great things…sometimes things we are not perhaps destined to do yet do not realise it under the pressure of others’ expectations, demands, traditions and beliefs within society. And sometimes the best we can do is not enough and we feel the burden and live with that burden unless we choose to free ourselves. Enjoy and huge thanks, of course, for the opportunity to be featured in Double The Books!
A girl sat hunched rain streaking her face
She breathed hard, fast, her mind yelling
In her heart, she was winning the race
Yet at the chalked start line still half dwelling
Barely able to stand in pressured greatness
A random row somewhere inside her pricked
As noise and water once drowning became less
Noticing how her emotions now torn and ripped
Assigned her to what life, one not her own
She fully emptied the glass medicine bottle
No less of sweet wine but poison on loan
Enough to drown her dwindling throttle
Awhile she pendulum swung from fair to worse
The woods closing thick, privet hedge rows scratching
As she swallowed the hated book’s curse
Closing in on her world as it split diverting
Her whether ready or not, neither least or most
The rich wealth of thoughts going quiet
Accented and new, an encouraging boast
Religiously patting her with a colour riot
As she gazed outwards, reflections of an imposter again
Without together, she couldn’t be there
She searched the crowd for strength to gain
Her mother’s tented stare told her she didn’t care
Thank you for reading my poetry and if you would like to read more then please download my Collection of Poetry, Sunshine after Rain here.
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Until next time, Happy Reading, Happy Writing, Happy You and Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate.
