REFLECTIONS and RHYME

Saying Goodbye
Looking back over my life, I have always found saying goodbye really hard to do and I am sure this is the same for many of us to varying degrees.
Perhaps a little sad at times, this poem looks at those occasions, but finishes, as ever, with a more upbeat and positive slant, because after all, where there is darkness, there is always a place for the light to fill.

Oh! the angst of teenage years!
It's such a pity that when you are a teenager and probably in your prime physically, you don’t have the wisdom to accompany it. That always comes a little later.
Had I then had the wisdom which I have now, I would not have gone through the worries and stress which I felt back then. “ C’est la vie” I suppose.
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I suppose that this short poem is a cautionary tale for life and of how sometimes things are not quite as they initially seem.
It teaches us to be cautionary and to not assume that we know what we are looking at or experiencing.
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I think the main message in this poem is the importance of ensuring that you build a good relationship with yourself as surreal as that may sound to some.
At the end of the day, the only person you will be with all of your life is likely to be you, so it’s worth putting the effort in.
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This is a poem about that sense of something bigger than ourselves which we all feel, if we are honest and open.
It speaks of the many others down the ages who have also felt it during their time here.
It is about not disregarding it, but instead learning to respect and include it in our everyday world.
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Sometimes smells can be so important. They can immediately trigger happy nostalgic memories and also some sad and bitter/sweet ones too, such as people we have lost and times gone by. We immediately recall a poignant moment, where we were, who we were with and the feelings as well as the images, can come rushing back.
This poem is about some of the special scents and smells which linger in my brain from my life thus far. 
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This poem is for those listeners who have left the UK to live elsewhere.
It takes a walk down memory lane at the kinds of things they my think about when they look back at their earlier years in the UK..
I guess in a way it is really a poem for us all, no matter where we have put down roots. Home is, after all, where the heart is.

I wrote this poem when I was eighteen. It is a simple children’s fairy tale story about a little mouse and her adventure with some fairies.
It is descriptive and I hope, takes you back to those childhood dreams and fantasies.

Do you find that things just suddenly go missing in your house?   
Do you spend ages looking for them, only for them to suddenly appear a few days later, often in a different place?
If so, then this one is for you. These happenings are explained by the potential existence of Clutter elves.
Scoff all you like, but it's an explanation when you cannot find any others and those elves seem to be everywhere!
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This poem is about those wonderful furry best friends who come into our lives.
The ones who are always there, no matter what, who empathise, sympathise and just know when you are out of sorts or sad, but are also  always there to share the happy times. They are loyal and have no hidden agenda other than to love and be loved. Thank goodness for our furry friends.
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