Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 WWF – Connect with Nature Over the last weeks, many of us have experienced stress, anxiety or isolation. But now that we can get back outdoors, we celebrate the positive impacts of nature on our
Covid Phase 1 – An Ending
In the Shadow of the Sun The breaking of silences has begun put it behind us and move on rupture the edifice of dreams – icicle tears collapse in lockdown’s thaw until it’s as if nothing had
It is enough…
It is enough to sit, to think, to be to know your presence in the length of time that brought you here and to acknowledge your final passing… +++ Writing in Mum’s notebook Your words
Psyche – Spring
Sometimes the harmony of words is more painful than a wound
Equinox
Equinox It’s as if an invisible snow has fallen, and the streets become quiet and cautious. Even with virus, in sunshine the air seems clear – less gases, particulates – every breath we take so much more precious.
April
April Because it is life Because we have broken dreams Because for now, we have life Because there is love Because it is Because © Steve Walter
Seasons in the Sun
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun* As the world waits to know when we can breathe again, there is a slowing of pollution, a cutting of carbon dioxide, a downward tilt in the graph
Hazel Walter (1928 – 2016)
Photograph by Ellen Montelius In the conservatory, Springfield, Rye.
Rebel XR
Rebel XR Rebel because it isn’t fair Rebel because it matters Rebel because we are one blood Rebel to save our planet Rebel because it’s their fault Rebel against greed, greed, greed Rebel with a cause Rebel because it
Friend of the Earth, An Apology
Friend of the Earth, an Apology Forgive me, I confess: I have a house, gas central heating and a car. Well, two cars, one older which I use for work. I have a motorbike (hardly used) and a
Revised deadline – Earth Day 2020 – Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth Poetry & Prose Competition
Note: the deadline for entries has now been extended to 8th May, 2020. Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth is running an open poetry competition to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on 22nd April and is inviting entries from
Earth, Moon, Sky & Psychosis at 60! – Brighton Fringe 2020
Steve Walter, author and poet (first diagnosed with bipolar 23 years ago), is back, steering us through a good-humoured story of breakdown and recovery. If you’ve ever experienced mental ill-health, or know someone that has, and you care about the