Hello all, So today is my last full day of the year before the festive break. As always, I wanted to share a little something I'd written before I disappeared off to have some much needed down time. Lately I've not really been in the best frame of mind, and it occurred to me that … Continue reading A poem for this Christmas
Hello everyone, Once again I know this festive season is looking different for a lot of people when they hoped it would be approaching something more normal. But I hope with this little poem I have written about my "Grate-ness" list (a Christmas Gratitude List, if you will) that I have encapsulated the reminder that, … Continue reading My Grate-ness List
Love In All Things by Alex MacGregor When life hands us lemons, there is lemon drizzle cake When life hands us confusion, understanding and helpful ears are there When life hands us endings, new starts begin When life hands us despair, hope springs up When life hands us darkness, there is light within When life … Continue reading A poem for Christmas Day.
by Alex MacGregor Awaken, friends, this is the dawn of a new day For now we leave behind the time we can no longer turn back For now we leave behind the futile grains of unfulfilled sand Let us not hold onto our grievances, the dead lichen of the day before Let us not deny … Continue reading Begin Again
By Alex MacGregor Nothing has changed. Polished wood, radiator guards. Chairs stacked in two. Windows peeling with white paint. Nothing has changed. Pyrex mugs, a giant urn. Coffee, tea. Custard creams and bourbons. Nothing has changed. The distant echoes. Squeaking footsteps, joyful laughter. Not knowing where we were going. Nothing has changed. Clinging evermore to … Continue reading The Hall
What Christmas Means to Me by Alex MacGregor A choir singing merrily on high Oxford Street lighting up the sky Frost nipping my rosy cheeks 24 days, counting down the weeks Roaring fires, all snug and warm Excitement when I wake in the Yuletide morn Stockings hung, the tree lit up Heady mulled wine filling … Continue reading A festive poem from yours truly…
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