Happy New Year to all our readers … #poetry

Apologies for the self-indulgent selfie … I am smiling under the beard : ) xxx #HaveALovely2019  

Here

So where is it, this ‘Here’? ‘Here’ is where I am letting go of thirty years of working within establishments in which, by and large, the individuals strive to help kids learn and grow because of a shared vocation, but are occasionally restricted/thwarted by the system if/when they refuse to adhere to politically inspired initiatives…

Hiroshima, 1961 by Holly Singlehurst

My favourite poem from the National Poetry Competition in 2016 …   Hiroshima,1961(after Yves Klein) from Roseanne Watt on Vimeo.   … wonderful stuff 🙂

ellipsis …

I have taken the plunge and requested a reduction in teaching hours from September. From full-time class responsibilities, I will move to working two days a week in the next academic year. This arrangement will continue until I sink my teeth further into the bullet and retire from this profession altogether sometime around my sixtieth…