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
So, this week’s poem is rather long. It sort of ended up that way because I couldn’t stop writing it. I needed to get all my thoughts and feelings out, and it morphed into the poem you’re going to read. … More Poem of the Week: A New Evolution
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
I moved down to Devon a year ago now. I live by a pebble beach in the south east of the County, and come the summer months I’ve found settling myself down on the beach after a walk is the most beautiful thing. … More Poem of the Week: Ocean Peace
I am a day late on publishing my poem for this week, as I usually post every Wednesday. But maybe I did that on purpose – unintentionally, subconsciously on purpose, for today is the 1st of April and the start of Poetry Month. … More Poem of the Week: Dream
I’ve mentioned a few times my thoughts and feelings over the past several months. I had a really bad time a few months back, in October to December, but I’ve been coming out the other side of my poor mental health since then, and feeling better each day. … More Poem of the Week: Whispering Sea
It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Now, ok, I have a very small amount of Irish in me – miniscule probably – I’ve got far more Scottish in me thanks to my dad and a mix of northern European from a long way back thanks to my mum doing one of those ancestry tests. … More Poem of the Week: Green
Linking in with my theme for this month, this poem is all about hope. I was sorta inspired by my blog post earlier this week, and the words just came to me after thinking of the quote “Hope is the thing with feathers”. … More Poem of the Week: Hope
