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ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT 2011

Just off the M4 motorway, there's a Wiltshire market town, It's name will be historical, and will wear a Royal Crown, Four years have simply flown, not many weeks pass by, We've not heard of Wootton Bassett, no matter how we try. This all changed spontaneously, four...

A COUNTRY WALK

As we walked down that country lane I felt I would not be the same The two of us were hand in hand Both unaware what fate had planned How innocence had led the way To be together on that day We marvelled at the azure sky As butterflies and birds flew by Our senses...

“Make your Mark”

Cacophony of sound assaults mine ears When e’er our leaders vie to hog limelight No manners they display with hurtful smears By pressing home their party line, through slight In ‘power play’ with thoughts of each opined Tho points are scored (not one will count as...

The Beginning of Civilisation

The Ice Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, Have all contributed to the development of man, But it is still less than six thousand years, When civilisation as we know it first began. Up to that time man had hunted, and collected herbs and berries, What they had to...

AN EARLY START

I woke early in the morning and nothing could be heard But as I listened carefully I could hear the singing of a bird It was the early morning chorus bidding welcome to the day And listening to its singing that bird was heard to say Wake up, wake up everybody the sun...

There flows a sea…

There flows a sea of poppies Down from London tower A sea of red to commemorate The 11th month,11th day and 11th hour. So many lives lost Both young and not so old To give us the freedom we have today Their stories should be told. The young man who lied about his age...

Ordinary Wife

I often turn back time in my head And ponder would I still follow where you led To your parallel universe where nothing is as it seems It belongs in either nightmares or sweet dreams In a candy floss universe or a demon inhabited domain Chocolates and champagne or...

PROCRASTINATION

Oh dear, she thought, as she lay in bed. Ihave a busy day ahead. I should get up and have a shower, but think i'll have another hour, Finally, she got out of bed, looked at the jobs that lay ahead. And promptly she went back to bed.

MY LOVE

Now old and stooped, his hair now grey, the years has taken his looks away. How handsome he was when he was young, girls flocked around him in a throng. I thought he would never notice me, but then he turned and smiled. I felt in a trance, when he asked me to dance....

Betrayal

He packed his bag,and was to leave, I love another, he had said, and she means the world to me. I watched him as he drove away, no tears were shed by me. At last i had my freedom back, to do just as i pleased. Another woman has him now. I'm glad he's not with me

20%

of people exposed to mass violence develop PTSD

8M+

adults diagnosed with PTSD in a given year

more likely — women are disproportionately affected by PTSD