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Words<\/strong><\/p>\n Damascene describes the field in moonlight to ornament (e.g. iron or steel) with wavy patterns. in her SpongeBob Christmas colouring book. she looks like a real professional. She concentrates colouring the tiny fairy lights on the Christmas tree Your dyslexic mind understands words I was always hiding in books, hiding from things and I learned from reading. that strength and resilience can be found learning the hard way, chipping away at words Rachel Burns<\/strong> is a poet and playwright living in the north-east and published widely in literary magazines including South, Brittle Star, Ambit, Obsessed with Pipework<\/em> and The Interpreter’s House<\/em>. In 2016 she won second place in The Writers’&Artists’ sonnet competition judged by Ruth Padel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n The ice has shifted <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Wallace-Shaddad<\/strong> now concentrates on writing poetry after a long career with the British Council. She is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society (SPS), has had work published in anthologies, SPS and British Council in-house magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Words Damascene describes the field in moonlight we have to look the word up in the dictionary to ornament (e.g. iron or steel) with wavy patterns. Your sister is colouring SpongeBob in her SpongeBob Christmas colouring book. She sits at my desk in the swivel chair and I tell her she looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12972,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwe have to look the word up in the dictionary<\/p>\n
\nYour sister is colouring SpongeBob<\/p>\n
\nShe sits at my desk in the swivel chair and I tell her<\/p>\n
\non keeping the felt tip within the lines<\/p>\n
\nand I carry on reading the bedtime story.<\/p>\n
\nlike damascene but can’t read them on the page.<\/p>\n
\nmy nine year-old self could not yet begin to comprehend<\/p>\n
\nWatership Down taught me about survival<\/p>\n
\nin the unlikely of places. I watch you, my children<\/p>\n
\nlike little birds trapped under the ice.<\/p>\n
\nopened up a hole.
\nGlass hangs heavy
\nfrom the rooftops.
\nSmall feet skate
\nin circles of time
\nas Siberian winds
\ndescend, freeze
\nthe edges of snow.<\/p>\n