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Why is Community Involvement Important for Children?

August 16, 2021 By Ellen

Getting involved with the community provides many benefits for young people. It teaches them a range of new skills, provides them with a sense of belonging and allows them to develop the ability to empathise as they learn of other people’s struggles. With that said, it’s wise for parents to encourage their children to support […]

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5 Wednesday

August 8, 2021 By Ellen

Things there are no words for   The exact exasperation of a fly buzz-by again. Jump-scare daylight after a matinee. The beat-beat calm before bad news bites. And when you see your son as a reasonable human being… and quite like him. Someone put sugar in the tea and didn’t tell you, or salt. Wondering […]

Filed Under: boys, other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, impossibilities, love, poem, poetry

4 Tuesday

August 4, 2021 By Ellen

Why me?   How can it be that I am me? After all, I could just as easily have been a flea, or a pea. How did I get here – to 3.52, right now in this place? And of everyone who’s ever been so far – the eleventy kertrillion former people, representatives of the […]

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3 Monday

August 3, 2021 By Ellen

Squeeze   All of a sudden there’s a squeeze around the heart. Sharp. A wincing intake.   In a photo, it’s not the summery smiles with ice cream ghosts that nettles, but the unspooling since.   I feel it in a sugar crunch, sharp with lemon, in the opening of a Top 40 climber. In […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: creative writing, holiday poems, poem, poetry, squeeze

2 Sunday

August 3, 2021 By Ellen

Downpour   What I love about rain is its sheer bloody toldyousoness its smell, of course the plash, pitter and plop its ’bow a smug waterproof coat strangers talking kaboom, flash thunder storm dry firesides wellington boots with fleecy linings its stopped play lushy swishy grass clouds smearing the overthere hills a single bulging orb […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, downpour, holiday poem, poem, rain

1 Saturday

August 3, 2021 By Ellen

You are an angry woman   Of course, I am. I’m bloody furious. Because my babies ate my time my choices were ridiculous and then I couldn’t go back. Because equality is a big fat sneaky lie and opportunity doesn’t knock it shows its hairy arse through the window then flees. Because while I was […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: angry, creative writing, feminist, holiday poems, poem, women

Poem: I come from …

August 2, 2021 By Ellen

I come from the north, From grey harling, drizzled crags and scree. Dandelion and burdock. Engage low gear now.   Bacon for breakfast. Breaking in your boots. Passing places and bloody tourists. The library’s parquet gleam. Peewits and feral cats.   Toasted arse against the Aga. Wellies and broken veins. Creosote on the fence. Shirt […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, Cumbria, MLitt, poem, writing

Always-On Discount for FeelinGirl Shapewear

August 2, 2021 By Ellen

Shapewear is not always cheap, especially when its quality is very high. And it is very important when it comes to shapewear to have the best and the most innovative designs, to be made out of the best fabrics, so that may offer the best possible results. Of course, when it has all these characteristics […]

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