Catch Up

It’s been a while since I wrote on here and I can see the traffic has been good so I was thinking maybe I should be writing here more often, providing you with more posts. So I’ll try and do a post once a week to update you all.

I’ve been working on a poetry collection about grief over the last few months. The title will be You Are Not Alone and that is the message I want to convey. We all go through grief at various points in our lives and we all deal with it in different ways. It’s important to realise that we are not alone in our feelings and others have been there before.

The poems I have shared have had a great response on social media with so many people saying how the words resonated with them. That is my biggest wish through all of this, that people who are in immense pain through grief find comfort in the words I use and it warms my heart to hear when it happens.

I have still been writing other poetry, especially paranormal haiku poems that I write under a pen name. I actually set up a prompt challenge on socials to inspire paranormal poetry but there have been no takers yet.

I also wrote a fantasy poem this week.

I will close with a poem from my new book, You Are Not Alone. See you next week.

I wonder

I wonder if, in heaven,
You’re greeted at the gates
And members of your family
Gather ’round in wait.

I wonder if, in heaven,
You see your special place
Or places that so long ago
Somehow fell from grace.

I wonder if, in heaven
You eat just what you like,
Instead of having to jump on
An underused exercise bike.

I wonder if, in heaven,
You sit upon a cloud
And watch over your loved ones,
Feeling very proud.

Jen Elvy

Friday update 13.1.23

The pic in the poem is Happy Place. It’s featured in The Perfect Prompt, it was read out by my sons’ headteacher and now it has been chosen by a well known educational publisher to be included in a book. I’m so thrilled! A bright spot in a very hard week! It’s my ambition for my poetry to reach classrooms and it’s a joy to know it’s going to be fulfilled and I want to keep going with this vision.

Today has been a nice chilled day. I finished a topical poem, I wrote a couple of grief poems and when I can make myself cry with a poem I write I know I’ve done an ok job. I might have mentioned the other week that I’ve got quite a collection of haikus that could serve as writing prompts and I’ve continued this project today by writing an couple more with view to publishing a book of them soon. The first one I wrote I managed to devise in my head and the next one came from a prompt from a book by @sabinalaurapoetry which I will feature in another post very soon. I’ll try from now on to write some haikus each week.

I should add that I had my eldest son at home with me today as he was poorly and he was counting my syllables to check I was doing 5-7-5 in my haikus. He wanted me to add a line in Yoda type speak which sometimes use for my poems 😂

I continue to be chuffed with engagement on my Facebook page and my instagram seems to have picked up too since I don’t post twice a day anymore.

Thank you for all your support xx