Thought I would write a little something for World Poetry Day. The Play It’s the space between the sounds that screams the loudest The pause amid the din The lull in the clanging The silent nagging of shadowy thoughts Swirling in the mind Fragments scattered to the edges of dreamingIsolated in the theatre of worst…
I was honoured to read my poem today at the South Coast Writer’s Centre International Women’s Day celebration (as I have for the past two years) and even more humbled to be selected as this year’s winner of the competition. Wow!! The theme for this year was #balanceforbetter and I wanted to explore the fragile…
I posted a new poem on Instagram this week and I noticed it didn’t get as many likes as some of my previous poetry posts have. Granted, I did post it at midnight (right after I wrote it) and perhaps the folks on Instagram didn’t like the poem (that’s ok too). But I wondered whether the…
My piece for International Women’s Day power voice writing comp 2018 on the theme ‘Progress’. Why #pressforprogress? Why not #pressforregress? To go back before this time, when we had no reason to tag #metoo. When #timesup was simply a call to mark the start of a game, and not the end of hiding out and…