children (Remove filter)
Mum guilt
Woken up Rudely by a wide awake kid
Her iPad starts blaring , that one that you hid,
It’s 5 in the morning , but she wants to play,
But you’ve hardly slept, not ready for the day ,
You’ve been up all night , on the edge of her bed,
While she sleeps so soundly, sweet dreams in her head,
8 comes round it’s time to get up and go,
But now she is ‘ tired ‘she’...
Tuesday 24th October 2023 4:57 pm
Not By Tony Benn
The Tories treat
our nurses with contempt
our doctors with disdain
our firefighters with derision
our ambulance workers with disrespect
our railway staff with scorn
our carers with despisal
our armed forces with antipathy
our sick with neglect
our elderly with indignity
our teachers with ridicule
our children with condescension
our pensioners with contempt
...Thursday 10th August 2023 9:37 am
Recent Comments
Nigel Astell on June 2025 Collage Poem: You Watched the Trains Come, You Watched the Trains Go
2 hours ago
Tom Doolan on Poetry Is Pain
7 hours ago
David RL Moore on Too late too late
22 hours ago
Rolph David on Love The Light, Embrace The Rain
23 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on The roads taken
1 day ago
Red Brick Keshner on still, the Earth breathes
1 day ago
Marnanel Thurman on The roads taken
1 day ago
Red Brick Keshner on where shadows do not drown
1 day ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on The Empty Streets of Ego’s March
1 day ago
Larisa Rzhepishevska on The Policemen Arrest The Men.
1 day ago