Writing can be a solitary business and it always helps to have support and inspiration from others.
Dawn Bauling of Indigo Dreams has been very encouraging. She has published a number of my poems over the years in various editions of their poetry magazine The Dawntreader. In 2013 my poem Balancing Life was published along with a photograph taken by Les on Monreith beach a couple of years earlier. Life with fibromyalgia can involve rather a lot of balancing of time, energy and a lot more.
Balancing Life
Stones,
precarious no visible
means of support,
one on top of another.
Curious he stared, wondered at
this slender base bearing such
heavy
weight.
‘Life’s all a matter of balance,’
he said, ‘don’t collapse, try
to keep hold of positives,
don’t let negatives win.
Balancing life
is an art
itself.’
Life's a Beach 