Tag: Anti-social behaviour

• Plasters

  

  #NaPoWriMo Day Four Today’s prompt was to write a sad poem that uses simple language to convey strong emotion. The example poem used (sort of) iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets, so I too have incorporated those styles (sort of!) Also the topic I chose for today’s poem, knife crime, is close to my heart for…

  Serena Malcolm

  4 April, 2019

  Fear, Grief, Motherhood

  Anti-social behaviour, current affairs, gangs, grief, iambic pentameter, knife crime, life, Media, motherhood, NaPoWriMo, pain, Parenting, poem, poems, poetry, rhyme, sad, sonnet, teenagers, truth, violence, youth culture

• Poor, Poor Joan

  

  Another victim is brought to tears by these antisocial miscreants, My colleague goes to roll his eyes and, silently, I must chastise him, As she calls on us to stop it, I pull a tissue from my pocket, From his he pulls his mobile phone and averts his eyes from poor, poor Joan. And as…

  Serena Malcolm

  7 April, 2018

  Other

  Anti-social behaviour, Apathy, ASB, conflict, creative writing, elderly, empathy, GloPoWriMo, life, NaPoWriMo, neighbours, NPT, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poetry community, Police, policing, poor, rhyme, SNT, sympathy, verse, writer, writing