Biography
I've always loved reading poetry. In the last six years or so I've written around seventy poems and self-published a collection. I've attended the Write Out Loud open mic at Marsden Jazz Festival (jazz being another great love) and in the last year have become a regular at Puzzle Poets in Sowerby Bridge. I'm in a writers group in Halifax.
Samples
Relieved: Two monologues 1 If you’re over sixty three and you’ve not got a degree, and you call your dinner “tea” and you don’t agree with me, and you like things small and local, then you’ve got to be a yokel. Fifty tons of propaganda wasn’t strong enough to fool ya - all the insults, threats and sneers must have fallen on deaf ears. And the suffragettes and Chartists got the vote for you piss artists! And you’ve gone and rocked the boat And we’ll all go down the drain ‘Cos you didn’t vote Remain. 2 The English have spoken and you are ashamed. The king had no clothes on; the people are blamed. The chattering classes were so democratic till they were outnumbered; now they’re apoplectic. They’re keen Europeans because, I don’t doubt there might be a time when they want to get out. They want second passports. No need to vote Leave if you’ve hedged all your bets, or that’s what you believe. You’ve got houses in Italy, castles in Spain, a bee in your bonnet. You voted Remain and now the whole country is having a fight with only the future to tell us who’s right. Stephanie Blythe
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AM Cash
Tue 20th Dec 2016 12:27
Hi Stephanie, Like you I have written about the "vote" and two of my poems on here are on the subject. One written before we knew, We are European and the other after called No. This is interesting times and writing about them is something worth doing. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.