We all need stars to guide our way

Across the sea of life,

To lead us to that sheltered bay

Away from hate and strife.

When we first start out in our boat

We leave the stars behind.

From where we sit they seem remote -

Not what we seek to find.

We need to chart our unique course

And do the things we want,

We never get to feel remorse,

So focused on the jaunt.

But over time we get the sense

Ther...

I cannot seem to get this right,

I’ve been up trying half the night.

It seems there is no end in sight,

I think I’m pulling it too tight!

I tried to learn it from a friend

But that just drove her round the bend.

The start got mixed up with the end,

Her time with me she did suspend!

I saw some lessons on the net

I do not feel I’ve got it yet,

This is something I regret,

I think I’ve tangled up m...

I’m sat hunched over my desk as I stuff my face between checking personal emails on my phone . This is standard behaviour for me so no one comments as I’m usually back to answering work emails within a few minutes.

We’d got a lot on today as we were a bit behind after yesterday when Fiona left the office in floods of tears. She’s back in today but we still don’t know what’s happened and Steve (the...

I emerged from the small office kitchen, life giving caffeine in hand, and into the main office. It was like a shed full of battery hens, all of us in our little cages, pecking away ar our computers. Cage after cage the same…ok not quite, Sally (two back, three over) had her cubicle filled with plastic toys with zany hairstyles, Cristal (three in front, two over) had numerous photos of her expandi...

You are always there.

I know I can count on you.

You see all for me.

I know I can trust in you

To guide me through, every day....

“The hotel? Well I knew it was old, it had been a big stately home at some stage. I’m sure it was the “big house” of one of the “rich folk” in one of those costume dramas in the eighties”

The phone signal was terrible so I only got the gist of my friend’s response. I guessed it was about the tv show, she’d really been into them back when we were at school.

“Oh I don’t know which one but it must ha...

We’d been hunted all our lives. It was the fate of our kind to be considered freaks useful only for sport or clandestine entertainment. Most “normal “ people shunned us so we never settled long in any place. If it wasn’t for the occasional sympathetic individual we would have been wiped out long ago. Just for being different.

My sister, Efra, & I come from a long line of survivors. Each generation...

The window

Will not close,

I feel cold

Down to my toes.

The window

Must be stuck.

How I’ve tried

But still no luck.

The window

Still ajar.

Now I feel

Quite below par.

The window

Will not move

Just like me

Stuck in a groove

The window

Will not shut.

Is my work

Fixed in a rut?

The window,

Open wide.

Do I try

From the outside?

The window

From this view

I can hear

A plaintiff mew

The win...

Where is rabbit?

I can’t find rabbit !

He’s not anywhere in my bed

I’ve lifted up all the covers and he’s not hiding there

Where is rabbit ?

I can’t find rabbit!

He isn’t in the bathroom

And I did go there to brush my teeth. Honest.

Where is rabbit?

I can’t find rabbit!

He isn’t in the lounge

And it’s too late to watch my cartoons now. Mummy says so.

Where is rabbit?

I can’t find rabbit!

He isn’t...

“ I need to confess something…I did it. Now, can you pass me the wine?”

The conversations round the table suddenly silenced for a moment then Frank threw back his head roaring with laughter.

“You almost had me for a second”, he wheezes, tears streaming down his face.

The rest of the dinings joined in with the laughter apart from Susanne who gave me the weirdest quizzical look.

For my part. I felt ...