Nicky Linfield

United Kingdom

Anorexia hit me hard during my Cambridge Teaching degree, bulimia and harm its accomplice. Horses no longer numbed me enough. I began writing words, this was a key to my recovery. Proprint (Peterborough) published my books "A Trip Down Memory Lane" and "Cut the Apron Strings", the third is on it's way (I hope!)! Once a teacher, now a youth worker, I'm looking for a degree to compliment my experience to help others out. No eating disorders will stop me! "If it's what I want - I'll fight for it!" Fear is like a cloud, you can walk through it.

Discovery of Love

Love who is she, I don't know
She's the person in me, I never allowed to grow
People tried to buy her, she shook her head
and said
I'm not for sale,
People tried to touch her, she turned from pain,
screaming and stamping - no she cried in vain
I can live alone, her lip quivered,
A tear of sadness fell, I can she shivered,
But I need to find who love is and where she lives,
To meet her friendship need, "Love" I whispered
She appeared as a place where I can go
She had a kinda' orangey glow,
With calming pink and cleansing blues,
Holding in her arms peace and trues,
Energizing a tinge of excitement
Not one winge of resentment
Beginning in ones souls heart
from whence she does depart,
on her fulfilling journey of growth and creation,
to a multitude of destinations,
Whether a solo or duet is formed,
She began deep within and spread her wings
Through knowledge, nurture and kindness,
To bloom to her upmost tranquillity

In harmony with every rhyme and reason.

Dream Catcher

Life dreams zoom by
Like flies in the sky
they hover and weave
dancing wildly thro' the air
glimpsing at many sights
investigating options then buzzing off,
searching for more,
until an inquisitive one,
explores a little further,
sneaks a little deeper
TRAPPED in a sticky stretchy web
it wriggles and wiggles
it tustles and tastles
thrushing itself deeper and deeper into a mesh
stopping it hopes for free order
yet when it dares look again
it notices it's as a puppet on a string
of a fine and silvery thread
that prevents it indulging in a new life
holding it while it rests
encouraging it to reflect and strengthen
upon all that is past
so it can catch a dream and let it come true