Govt tells older people with or without health problems to self-isolate. Sadly many of them have been doing it for years, it’s called Loneliness and Isolation.
Self-Isolate/Loneliness and Isolation.
Category: Poetry & Verse
My writings around my life and other stuff
Oct 2015 ‘A Reflection’
Van Gogh Museum performance of the intergenerational words piece The Open Sky with Robyn Haddon and Rory Pilgrim October 2015.
“A Reflection.
The Open Sky is about words and what they mean for different people.
It’s about intergenerational words,
I bring words with me from childhood.
Family words that have stayed with me.
Sometimes these words have got blurred through the years.
There are words I want to term as family words.
There are also words I want to term as friendship words.
Sometimes the words in friendship can mean more to some people than family words because for some, their friends are also their family who they share their lives with.
There’s a four letter word, which is really important – just a four letter word – LOVE.
Carol Robson.
Single Awareness Day (February 14th)
Single Awareness Day
February fourteenth is Valentines Day
another chance to fill the coffers.
A card, flowers, presents to give
commercialism filling their pockets.
One day just to say, I love you
Promotion, advertising
pushed at you since the New Year.
Magazines, newspapers, television too
just to say on that one day.
I love you
Emphasis on couples,
sharing their love.
Why do they need a special day?
everyday should be special.
If you love someone so much
How does it feel to be single?
grown tired of all this hype.
Many different reasons, for being single
cherish your life, cherish your friends.
February fourteenth is,
Single Awareness Day
© Carol Robson
Insomniac Mind by Carol Robson
Insomniac Mind
Pens leak the words
scrawls or rants
line after line
of new thoughts
or juxtaposed words
in scrappy books
or post-it notes
decorating a duvet
like a poetic quilt
to be sorted later
by a clearer mind.
Hours or days
poetic verbiage juggling
parking of words
in the right place
to be read
to be spoken
down through time
by you, by others
who empathise
where the words arose
from the restless sea
of the poets
Insomniac Mind.
© Carol Robson
Salford
I was so pleased to be asked to write a poem for this Pamphlet to raise funds for a local for charity;
Adopted Salfordian
I wandered lonely,
not as a cloud
a free spirit
with words of poetical diction
political, just about real life
real people, real lives
spoken word of fact
sometimes fiction.
I wandered lonely,
meandering,
like the Irwell
feeling refreshed
as I drifted into Salford
On a lonely night
I found inspiration
my spirits lifted
musicians, the finest wordsmiths
my mind full of oration
off the cuff, then scripted.
I wandered lonely,
yet on arriving
among Kings and Crescent
performers, audiences, new friends
taken into the bosom
of friendships,
feeling safe in this
‘Spirit of Salford’
I wandered,
never alone
adopted Salfordian
who loves the honesty,
the humour
tells it how it is attitude
in a place
that gave us the likes of,
Clarke, Cooke, Finney,
Sumner, Read, Delaney.
just a few
of talent, of inspiration
for inclusion, in any miscellany.
Salford!
gave me friendships
words of inspiration
here in my testimony
Salford!
You, have my affection..
©Carol Robson
NaPoWriMo2016 Day 7 (Tritina) Rhiannon.
NaPoWriMo2016 Day 7 (Tritina)
Rhiannon
My eyes flash wider as I see the beautiful Rhiannon
shuddering as my body tingles, for she is everywhere
her fans gathering just to hear the beautiful songbird.
They melt together as one entity at the feet of the songbird
hearts lifted and broken by the voice of Rhiannon
following like slaves as she moves everywhere.
Hypnotised to be with her everywhere
the bewitching voice of the songbird
as everyone just wants Rhiannon
taking Rhiannon the songbird into their hearts, everywhere.
©Carol Robson 2016
#NaPoWriMo2016 #Poetry
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 6. Yorkshire Pudding.
NaPoWriMo 2016. Day 6 (Food Prompt)
Yorkshire Pudding (Cinquain)
Just plain
yet loved for your
dishful deliciousness
rising in versatility
puffed-up.
©Carol Robson 2016
#NaPoWriMo2016 #Poetry
