Tag: empathy

• Death and Taxes

  

  “I’m sorry for your loss.”She smiles at me,One of those ones that doesn’t quite reach the eyes,I watch the flick of panic as she fights to keep the guise,“But it’s like death and taxes.”The plosive headers shred the air like shots fired,The bullets of levity sear into my sorrow,Is it ignorance or cruelty?My brain can’t…

  Serena Malcolm

  5 June, 2026

  Grief

  bereavement, death, empathy, grief, poem, poetry

• Swing

  

  #NaPoWriMo Day Two Today’s prompt was to write a poem which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. I have loosely followed this prompt and combined it with #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, which is also today, creating a poem from the perpective of a child with autism. I hope I have done some small justice to what…

  Serena Malcolm

  2 April, 2019

  Fear, Other

  autism, autism awareness day, childhood, current affairs, empathy, life, NaPoWriMo, nature, observations, perspective, play, poem, poetry, Senses, sensory, truth

• 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