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- Poetry & creative work
Me
A poem examines spiralling thoughts and a difficult relationship before claiming responsibility for one’s own mood and future.
- Poetry & creative work
Don’t Give Up
A poem offers encouragement through images of childhood freedom, resting wings and the possibility of beginning again.
- Poetry & creative work
Your Destiny
A poem imagines choice as a key held in one’s own hand and asks what kind of future to open.
- Poetry & creative work
The Poems Take No Notice
A playful meditation contrasts human mortality with poems that refuse to follow their maker into death.
- Poetry & creative work
Beyond the Clouds, with No Known Way
A hospital awakening leads the poetic speaker to question survival, loss and the uncertain path ahead.
- Poetry & creative work
The Bell Cricket Calls
The sound of autumn crickets becomes an insistent invitation, mingling seasonal change with the image of a pilgrim’s bells.
- Poetry & creative work
Ghosts of Sorrow
A poem gives unexplained sadness the form of ghosts from the past, whispering around the memory of someone who has gone.
- Poetry & creative work
A New Me
A poem imagines each morning as a personal renewal, looking toward changing tastes, relationships and possibilities.
- Poetry & creative work
Friends
A poem expresses gratitude for friends’ support and the wish to become strong enough to offer comfort in return.
- Poetry & creative work
A Wretched Fool
A poetic speaker wakes in hospital, struggling with shame and gratitude while words for new poems begin to emerge.
- Poetry & creative work
So it Goes.
A Japanese poem borrows Vonnegut’s familiar phrase while questioning how to live honestly amid uncertainty.
- Poetry & creative work
Hope
A poem urges the speaker to act on personal interests and build confidence through small steps.