Thank you all of you for your kind and encouraging words. I'm not even sure of how to respond to comments yet as it isn't obvious?
I have hundreds of poems already written and hundreds to come I am sure. Feeling lucky to have found a platform with like-minded lovelies ?

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Bless you, Child! You are among FRIENDS who know exactly where you are now. And who cheer you on with lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes. Such honesty becomes a woman who has much to say. Let the poetry begin again, with unbelievable sources of material to draw upon, past, present and future. Keep everything! Notebooks and pencils might be better than computers/phones because they travel so well in pocket or bag, and they become a separate, special 'place' for thoughts. Besides, it's still the finger to pencil to paper 'thing' that has a hint of magic in it. Your own 'writing'!

Hope the GCSE's are going well, and the teething.

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Start breaking up those lines about shoes and love creating worry into a poem....... I managed a few poems when my lads were young, they may not be my best, but they heartfelt and bring it all back now!

My youngest is doing GCSEs right now too.....to me, being the support as they do exams is FAR worse than the middle of the baby night feeds. No wonder you are tired.

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Hello Candi, do you know that Write Out Loud is currently running a poetry competition on the theme of Milestones? I wonder if you could take some of these thoughts - the frayed shoes perhaps - and write them up in a more poetic form. Here's the link if you're interested in submitting something:

https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=65658

btw, I enjoyed your sample poem. Hope you find some time in your exhausting new Mum schedule to post some more of your poems.

all the best,
Colin

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