Viv Blake

Biography

I’m sometimes known as the silly old bat, potty about poetry, passionate for patchwork, family, friends, music and a quiet life. The pains of age prevent much physicality: gone are the days of riding and roaming, tennis and squash. The gentle walk up to the village is my daily exercise. I live in rural Normandy in Northwest France with my retired dentist husband and spend my days quilting, writing poetry and blogging.

Samples

NIGHT THOUGHTS - A PETRARCHAN SONNET As I was lying in my cosy bed I thanked the Lord for giving me such warmth, and shelter from the havoc of the storm in comfort in my hilltop home. I said my prayers of gratitude as aforesaid. Thankfulness for bounty is the norm for every caring person, to transform grumpy-guts to happy bunny. Instead of self-congratulation, thoughts of others who do not have the haven of a home, of prisoners of conscience, dispossessed, or orphans cruelly deprived of mothers, of people tyrannised, oppressed, alone, aroused my anger, would not let me rest. © Vivienne Blake

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