poems

  • Guest Writer Spot

    Happy Friday to you all. My Guest Writer this week is making her debut. Please welcome Sylvie Beech. Poetry has always been her favourite form of writing, but she likes penning flash fiction too. If you’d like to be included in my guest writer slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    Welcome to my Guest Writer Spot. It’s the first time this week’s guest has appeared on my blog (aside from a couple of brilliant story challenge entries). It’s my pleasure to introduce Lynn Chapman.  If you’d like to be included in my guest writer slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to…

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  • Happy new week. Here is a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: THIGH Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TEAM in it somewhere. You came up with some brilliant limericks: Keith Channing: I jumped at the sound of a scream Emanating from just up the stream. It…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    This week’s guest writer is a former student of mine. It’s lovely to read her work again. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Belinda Davidson. Here’s a little bit about her: My name is Belinda Davidson. I’m an English teacher living in France away from my family. I completed a writing course a long…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    I hope you’ve all had a good week. It’s now time to introduce this week’s guest writer. It’s the very talented Nancy Blodgett Klein. This is the first time she’s been a guest on my blog and I’m sure you’ll join me in giving her a warm welcome. Nancy has lots of writing experience and…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    Happy Friday! It’s time for my guest writer slot. This week, it gives me great pleasure to welcome back Kevin Morris, who has appeared in this slot a few times with his stunning poems. Here’s a poem from his new poetry collection entitled ‘The Churchyard Yew and Other Poems’. A Hyacinth’s Scent Last Night By…

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  • Happy Monday! Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: YAWN Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TEACH in it somewhere. You came up with some funny limericks: Keith Channing: The day that I started to teach, Every rule I proceeded to breach. An inspector from…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    Happy Friday! It’s time for my guest writer slot. This week, it gives me great pleasure to welcome back Kim Smyth. She appeared in this slot a few weeks ago. If you missed it, you can read it here. Now for another of her super poems: A Shorkie’s Story Come and listen to a story…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    It’s Friday and so it’s time for my guest writer slot. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Lance Greenfield this week. If you’d like to be a guest on my blog, 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…

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  • Guest Writer

    I’m delighted to welcome Kevin Morris back as my guest writer. Kevin has appeared on my blog a few times with some wonderful poems. He’s just had a new book of poetry released, called ‘MyFriend’s Robot Girlfriend’. Do hop over to Amazon and take a look. Links can be found below. Here’s what Kevin has…

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