I Am A Plant

  This comes from something my daughter said to me as we were walking along. I said to her we’d turn it into a poem. I Am A Plant Tell your mum, or dad, or auntie or uncle, “Look! I’m a plant!” You’ll grab their attention for sure....
Freedom and the Tree

Freedom and the Tree

Imposing tree at the other side of the fence: You are mine! You don’t know any boundaries I know you have chosen me. When I dreamed that I had stolen you and relocated you to My garden You were already mine! Your roots are under My ground. When the wind shook your...

Lockdown Alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V T V T V V T V (We were singing songs to our new baby cousin/niece and Maisie started singing the alphabet song. Half way through she got muddle and said she had forgotten the alphabet in an “oh, nevermind” way. “ Lockdown has...

A Normal Child

Once I met a child who was normal. But not just normal. This child was the most normal child That I have ever met. Far more normal, in fact, than Any other child I have ever come across. Uncommonly normal. Impossibly normal. And If I’m honest All this excessive...

Chapter 9 – The Escape

Chapter 9 Rowan wanted to curl up under his blankets. He willed himself to remain awake as the shafts of light faded around the door jamb. Again, no one had come to check on him and his door wasn’t locked from the outside. He wrapped his bread in a cloth, tied it with...