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Longing

Yearning
Heart-hurting
Whole-body aching
Ebbing and flowing over the years
Accompanied sometimes with tears
The slow, dribbling, dripping kind
That cling to skin and meander

Hollow ribcage
Gathering cloud of rage
Heart squeezed into a tiny cage
Each pulsating beat presses into the bars
Constriction blasts each breath, each beat
When will it be my turn?

Volcano longing
Pressure pushing up and out
Breath scorched with want
When will it be mine?

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I used to love to write. Growing up, if I wasn't reading other people's stories, I was writing my own. I even studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, in the hopes of one day becoming a novelist. But life - and work - took over. I got a job as a Copy Editor in a corporate company, and my creative endeavors got pushed to one side. Writing became a job, not a pleasure. Then, in 2019, I turned 40. This milestone made me decide to write a list - 40 things to do when turning 40. Two of these tasks were to write a novel and create a blog. So not at all ambitious then! A few months later, there was still no novel and no blog, until I came across an advert for a Writer's Retreat run by the amazing Bex Band and Emma Rosen. The retreat was a revelation! I started my novel, wrote a short story, and here is my blog! I plan to share pieces of writing as I re-learn my craft, articles and quotes that inspire me, and interesting research I uncover as I plan my novel. And anything else that tickles my fancy! So welcome to my blog - I hope you'll join me on my journey back to being a Writer.

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