Guided tour & welcome

The door is always open, and visitors are welcome.
The picture in the hall that you see as you enter
is a flying pelican that I saw one bright day,
walking hot and happy along a pure white beach
in the Galapagos islands.
May you find the happiness and peace
that I felt on that day beside the pacific surf.
(But ssh… [...]

If your blog is your home, show us around…

The door is always open, and visitors are welcome.
The picture in the hall that you see as you enter
is a flying pelican that I saw one bright day,
walking hot and happy along a pure white beach
in the Galapagos islands.
May you find the happiness and peace
that I felt on that day beside the pacific surf.
(But ssh… [...]

Just the poetry

Here’s a summary of all the poems I’ve posted on my blog, including a note of the structures I’ve used. I’ve marked my favourites in bold.
A quick note on critiquing. I do value frank feedback as a way to improve as a poet, but there are several poems here which are very personal to me, [...]

100 posts and counting…

Post 101 seems a good milestone to reflect on what I’ve been blogging about over the last three months and where I want to go with my blog next… a lot has happened since I started this blog in February.
Loving - When I started this blog I was still very much preoccupied and miserable following the [...]

Songs to heal a broken heart – friendship

As I said in an earlier post, my close friends (you know who you are!) were absolutely vital for me in dealing with the break-up. As one of them said, sometimes it’s utterly crucial to have people whom you can turn to and ask for an outside opinion:
“I know I’d get really lost without outside [...]

Songs to heal a broken heart – the eye of the paradox

I’m constantly amazed by the way in which the breakup, though deeply painful, has strengthened me and given me a stronger grasp on who I am. It’s a theme that runs through this blog, eg. taking a risk, masks and fears, or, on a more poetic level phoenix tears and heartsong.
This song text, another one for [...]

Songs to heal a broken heart – the memory of the feeling

 

“His memory will come creeping back occasionally. Only the other day I found myself weeping over a lost love, only, luckily, to wake up and remember what he was like in real life. But the pain wasn’t really anything to do with him. It was the memory of the feeling of what I imagined we [...]

Songs to heal a broken heart 1 – It is all over

Last weekend I wrote a song, the first I’ve written in over 10 years. I think it’s rather beautiful, in a sad way. Because as well as sadness there is also a strength and a knowledge that the pain will be over one day.
It is exactly the sort of song I had been hoping that [...]

“What a relief” – a broken heart revives!

“Fictional hearts can be broken,
Real ones don’t heal all that well.
Amazing to still be here
And what a relief”
My search for songs to heal a broken heart goes on. Yesterday the CD of December Songsfinally arrived – and although I don’t like the singer’s voice much (an odd mix of harsh and breathy sounds), I love [...]

Finding my own songs

I’ve only written a few songs in my lifetime, most of them for music coursework years ago. But now I really feel the need to write my own songs to my own words.
In my singing technique I am coming closer to finding the voice that is truly mine – but at the same time I’m [...]