Approximate reading time: 20 min Just warning you, you might need to make some tea….this is gonna be a long one:-) Quite a lot has gone on these last two years so I thought I might do a little catch-up with all that I have been doing with my time. I mentioned in my “The …
Author: Gayle Hill
The Silver Lining
(Written January 2021) Asylum seekers flooding my brain, I’m teaching kiddies in the pouring rain. Mums are phoning me exhausted and overwrought. Crying their souls are lost (perhaps they’ve been bought?) Mrs Shawnigan’s moaning, imploring me: “They said my friend’s negative? How can that be?” “We’ve been friends for years, she’s always had my back! …
The nice-cissists
Estimated reading time: 8 min I feel like 2020 was my wake-up call. I wrote about my experiences in “The stars are aligning” with much humour and jest but those 5 months were anything but fun for me. In hindsight, it was like the universe finally decided ENOUGH ALREADY!! (Oh that one!) A couple of …
Forgiveness
(Written 26 February 2021) Forgiveness A word A feeling A thought So difficult to explain… Forgiveness A word A feeling A thought Intertwines with Insidious shame… Anger seethes Like a dog gnaws a bone I say “I’m okay” In my head, I throw stones Why was I born With a skin of cellophane Words burn …
Tiny Pieces
(Written 25 January 2021) How is it that after so many years, thoughts of you can still move me to tears? Ghosts from the past congeal in my mind, friendships lost through the ages of time. How is it that we play such a valuable role, caring and loving for each other’s souls… Then in …
Red Hot Shame
Oh My God, I’m on a roll!! 🙂 5th post in 10 days!! It’s amazing how much easier it’s getting to click that little (Could the internal angst be subsiding?) Although that being said….I still don’t share my blog posts on Facebook or Instagram. I used to when I posted a couple of years ago…. …
Ts’was I!
(Written 21 Feb 2021) Who’s the idiot who poured hot fat down the drain? 1 am last night (Good Lord was I insane?) All I wanted this weekend Was some peace to write (Besides this stupid poem No pen ‘n paper in sight.) As dirty dishes pile high I’ve plunged with glee Twice to shops …
My Crazy
(Written 6 February 2021) It’s been a whole month of me being a carnivore (Yes, you heard me right fruit and vegetables no more!) It sounds a little kooky (I must agree!) Meat, eggs and butter is all that I see. But hand on my heart this is not about calories but hopefully a simple …
O.r.d.i.n.a.r.y M.o.m.e.n.t.s
I lost my dad in 2010 and my mother in 2016. In 2016, 8 months before my mother past away we lost Anna. Anna started working for our family before I was born and in many ways, she was my second mother. I wrote about my grief in a post in 2018. Apparently, I wasnt …
Processing Grief: Clearing the space for Little Anjezë
(Reading time is approximately 25 min Hello all So I was searching through my 196 poems, trying to figure out which one next? Neurotic Angel, of course, was demanding that I find a happy one. “Gees, you need to lighten the mood a bit! If you are not careful, you are going to lose half …