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Carole Speirs

Updated: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:41 pm

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Biography

I am a retired care coordinator where I worked in a day centre for older people. I like to think that i am an a people person. I respond to all types of people and this is reflected in my poetry. I have been writing poetry for most of my life and have had some verses printed in pamphlets and anthologies. I usually write when moved or inspired when words just seem to flow.

Samples

Childhood There's rosebuds there waiting to become pixie hats There's a patch of clover calling for four leaf hunters There's perfume ready to be made from petals Our Childhood transformed our vision And scattered fairy dust to make us believe Now the rosebud are only flowers The pixies left long ago The tomatoes we squashed are driven to earth The world has changed and so have we But sometimes I still look for that four leaf clover And the fairy dust sprinkled over

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