Light at the end of the tunnel…a poem for New Year

31 Hello and welcome to the last blog post of 2017! It’s that time of year when so many of us take time to reflect on the year that is almost over and we begin to plan ahead and think about things to come. What has made you happy and brought joy to your heart […]

A Cup of Conversation with Poet and Author Rebecca Lynn Bardelli.

45 Welcome to A Cup of Conversation with the wonderfully creative poet and author Rebecca Lynn Bardelli. I connected with Rebecca when I read one of her poems on Twitter and subsequently downloaded her poetry collection Dancing Through the Flames which I found to be warm, heartfelt and very real poetry I could connect with […]

Suddenly everything became clear…

1 My heart has been clouded for too long     by my sensible frowning head But then music and my favourite song     came and spoke to me and said,   ‘Do what you are meant to do     you have one life and one life only Don’t muddle day by day […]

I smile through my tears…

💜 Sitting here Thoughts going round and round I think I’ve lost a part of me And I don’t want to be found Once you were here Real and true Now I turn round and you’ve gone I feel like we’re through. I smile through my tears Remembering your smile The sparkle in your eyes […]

In the summer July air

You came We met We laughed We talked I undressed You touched I lay myself bare Not like me at all To open up A stranger to me We said goodnight Feelings reeling To show we care But no drawn out kiss And I left you In the summer July air #POEMSC a Poem by […]

Awaking from the nightmare…

A splintering strike echoes through the night-time woods A growling beast as somber as the curtains falls Burning paper and mistaken questions catch in the wind Alarm bells, a rising resolute ring heard a hundred times A torch radiates elation, a row of delightful smiles No longer unfounded conviction or problems abundant Forget it happened, […]