Ok I'm half organised
I have three blogs now: This one One where I'll put my poetry (this may take some time) One where I am starting to unravel the years I spent overseas - happy hunting:) HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Watch This Space
I've decided to take the bull by the horns and change my plan to allow me three blogs (I have had enough trouble keeping up with one). It's time to get on with my non-fiction work and to do that I need to separate out all my personal work and poetry. I am going to have to keep an eye on myself... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Never try to reason with a crazy person
It will drive you there too. A simple text message after an abortive telephone conversation was ignored. That was after he had hung up on me, on my mobile at international rates, and I had called him back to try again to be reasonable. He needs the kid gloves treatment, and he has worn out all mine.... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Control
Uninspired, my muse gone flat, My bubble-thoughts erased By your carbolic presence, Smothering my gaiety, as a W ayward child crushes a perfect bloom Waiting gently on the ground, In that special place where once I loved, and life was new... And I cannot find the poetry In my mind any more... I was... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Get practical
Note to self: I have under ninety pounds to last the month. I am going to have to come up with a good idea pdq if I don't want to eat toast every day. Not going to ask my hubby for anything, he's made it pretty clear he doesn't think he needs to, and I will not put myself in his hands any more. The... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Recovery
A book I am reading and really enjoying is 'Women Who Run With the Wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, a Jungian analyst who interprets folk tales and relates them to a woman's psyche. I got hold of it through my local library, after my counsellor recommended it to me. It's about the way women have... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Aftermath
I've been in hibernation, I know. The damage wrought to the psyche in these kinds of relationships is considerable. Have I been so stupid as to devote my love and care to two very powerful men, only to have each of them turn away from me when the pressure they have put on me has brought out my... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Spinning in the Second Circle
There's a kind of panic that grips me every now and then. I don't know which is worse -- being in the marriage with all its volatility, or being out of it and having my new-found peace of mind taken from me again with the kind man deciding it was best for us both if I let him go. I never had him to... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The torrent of longing
It begins when I wake with a song in my head, conjured from nowhere but knowing the gaping chasm of my heart. You are gone from me... and did you ever love me?... Because you hurt me... you hurt me. I endured. I thought we were real. And then you were gone. Was I so foolish? Daily I die, waking to... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
A Widow's Tale
In the chill wind of late autumn We walk, she and I, to the place Her beloved lies, taken in an instant Suddenly, alarmingly, And waiting for her, she knows... Not a week goes by but she Takes that walk, and today I go too and we stroll, chatting, And in the green stillness We pass an old friend or... Sign in to see full entry.