Courses and Christmas

Completed a Creative Writing course at the Library ( with Lisa Blower) really enjoyed it and got some great feedback

Christmas came and went, much better than last year, here is the poem penned on Christmas Day 2013

Alternative Xmas

Christmas hangs

Like the North Star,

All heavenly cleanliness

Glittering but unattainable

To single hearts, like mine

Stripped bare, to its essentials

Of consumerism & gluttony

The cheap lights, tinsel

And television

Its offence to loneliness

Its jovial monstrosity

Stalking December

 Decked streets

In drizzle hung carols

Nylon Santa suits

And advent

Induced alcoholism

How much the heart

Aches for the joy

Of January

And normal

Solitary

Anonymity