Where Hope and Dreams Abide How do you choose a bookwhere your hopes and dreams abideDo you pass along rows… using your hand as a guideOr glance at their covers which attract and delightPerhaps at the airport…one for the flight…
The white strip of card read: Rowena Draper Librarian. It might as well have finished with an RIP. Instead, the customary redundancy package was now sitting in my bank waiting for my unemployed state. Or maybe; a reckless alcohol infused…
A gentle hint of wood smoke, a symphony of soundLeaves lay brown and withered, a carpet on the ground.A powerful time of year for opportunity and growthReflecting and connecting Peace and balance…both. Strip and prune away what no longer serves…
I visited the high street today; I’ve lately been out of touch.Must be six months I was last here. I don’t get out much.It was strangely quiet, had I missed something?A bank holiday; another pandemic; was a storm coming?An ill…
These days, I get the sweet smell of success, by just waking up!Hooray, I made it through.Yesterday, I finished my bookThe smell of success, right on cue. Again today in the shower I climbed, over the bath bubbled lined,That amazing…
Maybe it’s because I’m A Londoner . . . . . . And I’ve always loved London town As a writer, the big cities of the world call to me. They want to tell me their secrets,…
I remember . . . Going to school on a trolley bus, with one of dad’s white hankies tied round my face. It was the smog you see, turned the hankie black from the mills. Bradford, originally called Broad…
A few dwellings still nestle below Pickering castle and in one of these cottages lived a young girl with her widowed mother. To make ends meet she was expected to do a most dreadful thing. This is her story. Lizzie…
Ey up Ow do Welcome to Yorkshire our land with a view And enjoy our fat rascals with a grand Yorkshire brew. When dinner-time calls at precisely midday Its fish and chips or ‘One of each‘ we say. On a…
Welcome to my World is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by living in the picturesque Yorkshire town of Pickering. Here, Lillian’s provocative poety and whimsical musings are presented with colourful illustrations as a diverse anthology of earlier writing,…