

Peace
This was just before the pandemic, but still there seemed a need to take a breath...


Missing
I wrote a similar poem about a little girl finding her mother on the floor after a bout of domestic abuse. The idea reappeared with the...


Purpose
I have been tagging lots of my writing by subject in Word. I seem to have something of an unhealthy writing obsession as, by far, the...


Enchantment
Again, these lines were reworked from a longer version of this poem. I thought it worked well for 'enchantment' since music can be quite...


Ritual
I had a piece of flash published along these lines. The concept translated well into poetry. As I was unable to fit all of this into a...


Frantic
I once wrote a fairly long poem about a child escaping the torment of parents yelling at each other. It was difficult to skim it down,...


Sleep
I love what can happen in dreams... anything. The word which inspired this piece was 'fantasy'; I suppose that's what dreams are.


Rosy
Again, I filched a lot of this from a sunset poem I had previously written; it seemed to fit the 'rosy' prompt perfectly!