Hello all, after a really long gap between posts. Yes, life has gotten a bit in the way again, mainly due to being on holiday over the Easter period, and generally spending it socialising or crashing after socialising… … More NaPoWriMo 2022: Poem of the Day – ‘The Garden’
Life has a funny way of getting in the way sometimes. It really does affect our dreams and the things we want to do. Sometimes dreams don’t always work out, or sometimes they work out but not quite how you expected. … More NaPoWriMo 2022: Poem of the Day – ‘Dreaming’
This International Women’s Day – and for life in general perhaps, here’s a poem about rising. About women, about humanity, about the essence of life itself.
Have a read and share your own thoughts and feelings about the words. But also feel free to share links to your own creative outlets, be it words, art, drama, or however you are creative. … More Poem of the Week: ‘Rise’ – Celebrating International Women’s Day 2022
I’m not sure where this poem came from, but the words sort of dangled in front of me and I put the words on the screen like they were trembling things, waiting to be released. … More Poem of the Week: Live to Learn
Isn’t there something about reading a book? It’s one of my favourite pastimes. Something that delights and inspires me, sends me off to sleep and dream wild dreams and sometimes unnerving nightmares. … More Poem of the Week: The Book
I feel summer’s truly on the way, even if at this present moment in time, the weather’s a bit miserable. I know it won’t stay for long. I know summer is rising every day at the dawn, so I’m counting the hours until I wake up to another sunny day… … More Poem of the Week – Summer Days
As you may know from some of my previous posts, this week is ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’, as well as May being ‘Mental Health Awareness Month’. I quite like that there’s a whole month – and a week as well for good measure – talking about mental health. … More Poem of the Week: Stand Sure
Today’s word prompt was ‘sleep’, and ironically I felt quite tired when I wrote this! I blame it on the weather as it was fairly wet and miserable most of the day. … More Poem of the Week: Sleep Falls
As you may well know, I’ve been writing poetry every day for April Poetry Month. I have a word prompt each day and write a poem that is either about that word or includes it in the words. … More Poem of the Week: The Journey of Money
I’ve been writing poetry every day now for about two weeks, posting to my Instagram channel @ kandidchronicles, and it’s been amazing seeing what I’ve come up with. Each day I have a different word prompt and I try to create a poem from that one word. … More Poem of the Week: Riding Waves
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