If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive.
Please welcome Carol Anne to my blog this week. Many of you already know her from her insightful blog posts and beautifully-written poems. I’ll hand over to Carol Anne:
Here is a sonnet I wrote about living and coping with anxiety.
When shadows rise before the break of day,
And restless winds unsettle thoughts once still,
I greet the dawn with breath both tight and fray’d,
A heart that drums against its own free will.
Yet in this weight, I learn a steady grace,
To sit with storms that tremble in my chest—
Though fear may carve deep lines upon my face,
I do not shrink, nor flee at its behest.
For every trembling hour I endure,
There blooms a strength I never thought I’d find.
Though anxious thoughts may whisper, harsh, unsure,
I walk with them, not leave them far behind.
So let them come—I know now how to stand:
With trembling soul, but courage close at hand.
Bio
Carol Anne is from Ireland. She has had poems published in spillwords press, and in some poetry anthologies, including the short of it. She loves reading, chocolate, hanging out with friends, and volunteering. She is also a dog lover.
She is diagnosed with some mental illnesses, mainly dissociative identity disorder, PTSD and anxiety disorder.
She is also blind.
Her blog can be found here
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Esther Chilton 
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