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I write for fun and have secretly enjoyed doing so for over thirty years. I joined a creative writing group within Ayr Action for Mental Health in 2001, and before two weeks had passed, I somehow or another became the Facilitator

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Daydreams: 3 of 47
A five-minute break, to catch my breath,(halfway up a mountain in the Arochar Alps, Scotland):Ahead of me, I see a blue dragonfly,Balancing on the breath of the air,Hovering like a helicopter on a search.Down the glen behind the Bothy,The heathers follow one another,Into the distances of the late afternoon.On my right,In a pa... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Sleep: 11 of 136
Sitting waiting patientlyWhen will it start?When the moon sinks?When the sun rises?There's so much of nothing to complete.Long days, long nightsIf only they were shorterIf only they could combineIf only they would finishThen sleep would be a friendTwenty-four hours stretchSeems like thirty-four!Seems like no tomorrow!Seems li... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Limericks: 8 of 78
There was a young man from AyrWho had unusually styled hair?It came to a pointAnd bent at the jointAnd that's what made it quite rareThere was an old man from AyrWho looked around in despairHe'd lost his dogOut in the thick fogAnd found it by a wing and a prayerWith a hairstyle shaped like a brushThe youth zoomed around in a ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Bad friends: 5 of 46
Who's Helping Who?He walks, he goes to work, she runs!The night is hers to do as she pleasesShe feels old enough to make her own decisionsOf what's right and what's wrongWho are they to say what she should do?She can vote, she can get drunk and,She can damn well do as she pleases and,Whenever it pleases her to do so.Her frien... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: My favorite place: 7 of 53
This is where the thistle opens,where the honeysuckle and the nettle embrace gently,where the ptarmigan cries,where the midges are happy.Whose land is this,that the Gods have chosen to bestow and decorate withthe beauty of living things?This is Scotland, land of my birth.The land my fathers' fathers' and beyond tendedand love... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Depression: 129 of 694
I'm pregnant and terrifiedI'm pregnant and terrifiedI don't know what to doMy one night of passionI've messed up through and throughNow he's not interested in meAnd the baby's in the wayMy one night of passionHas messed up in a big wayThe months are drawing on nowThe swollen lump is thereMy one night of passionIs it only me w... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: If I were young again: 6 of 31
Do you gaze through the window of life?Do you wonder where life has gone?The days of youth, of reckless thoughts,Of times, when time itself, meant nothing!When PC meant Personal Computer,When High Street shopping meant going to town.Not to mention the microwave, where cooking is completed,Long before last nights plate can be ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Rape: 16 of 68
Guilty until proven innocent! :Wrongfully arrested on a cold September nightby eleven police officers, six cars and a dog.Taken into custody and stripped of all clothing,then plucked and probed by a man they called doctor.Four walls of a cell, sat lonely and nakedthree hours, four hours maybe even five.Isolation then broken b... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Feelings: 269 of 818
I am what I am and what I am, is what I am:I try at times to get to gripswith people whispering nasty quips," there's one o' them, they mad folk",yet with me, they've never spoke,I am,you can see, as human as they,difference is, I watch what I say.I can do what they do, sometimes better,when caught in the rain, I don't get we... More..
Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Dancing: 1 of 3
Doin' the Deckchair BoogieThe clouds are in...The people are out...The sky is clearand the summer sun is here.Chorus:I do the deckchair boogie,Shufflin' round against the seat...Doin' the deckchair boogieee,Shakin' my legs and tappin' my feet...The radio's on...The music is cool..My ice cream's meltin'and the boogie-woogie's ... More..