Tag: poetry

  • Snowdrops

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge starting February 4th is To the Thawing Wind, by appropriately named Robert Frost, published in 1913; Come with rain, O loud Southwester!Bring the singer, bring the nester;Give the buried flower a dream;Make the settled snowbank steam;Find the brown beneath the white;But whate’er you do tonight,Bathe my window, make…

  • Ode to my Bed

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    Jane Shaw
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    I feel like I spend, half my life in bed. We’re together so much, we really should be wed It’s not much fun, with a bed for a friend. Lying there for hours on end, sends me round the bend It sees me at my worst, when I hide from the world. Sees my pain…

  • In Sickness and Poetry

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    Jane Shaw
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    I took Emily to a kids poetry workshop earlier this week with Conrad Burdekin.  It was great fun and Conrad showed us how to form a basic poem. Those of you who follow me will know I write about my illness, to give me an outlet for frustrations and to talk about how it makes me…

  • Meet Ros

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    Jane Shaw
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    Ros is a fellow ME sufferer and has kindly written this about how she expresses her creativity which help her cope with the ME. I have been writing poems for a while but in recent years have turned to writing about M.E. and people with other chronic illnesses . I wanted to express how I and other feel. I…