Posted July 30th, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
A little on the dark side with a twist in the tail is the way I’d describe Changed Days Indeed . It’s hard to find a single answer when I’m asked what this poem’s about.
It’s about how ancient relationships can still cast a shadow over us despite the passage of time. How easily unresolved emotions can be rekindled with something as simple as a glance. How no matter how much a person changes or improves themselves in life, there’s always someone unwilling to acknowledge that. I guess too that it demonstrates the saying ” the best revenge is a life well lived.”
I said there wasn’t a single answer, I never promised you a short one, ha! Hope you like it - it was a very different direction for me in my writing. 
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Posted July 18th, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
As parents we do what we think best for our kids given the resources we have at hand. Whether you’re rich or poor doesn’t matter a bit though when it comes to what they need most. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to parcel up things like happiness, love and joy and simply hand it to them? Perhaps. But then they wouldn’t learn much of life for themselves that way either. It would be like looking at someone’s vacation photos instead of being there experiencing it and saying it’s the same thing.
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Posted July 3rd, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
This poem was the first one I ever had published. Even though I can see it could do with some tweaks here and there now, I still like the poem and wouldn’t change it for that reason. Yes, I’m a softie, what can I say! I just don’t want to lose the essence of it.
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Posted June 12th, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
I’d like to share this piece with moms everywhere, my wish being that it gives even one mom out there a glimmer of hope on their not so good days.
Based on a real event, it was written in remembrance of what probably seems like an ordinary moment to most people that passed between my son and I. At a time though when I’d felt that we were losing the connection we had, this unexpected insight was all the more precious. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
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Posted June 7th, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
It’s funny to look back on my writing and see the “light bulb” moments in life entwined in amongst the words. Reflections of Self was written a number of months after Mask. It illustrates how the experience of depression captured in Mask can in fact be overcome. Not necessarily in a flash of brilliance or overnight but with simply a small glimmering of hope for change, because sometimes that’s all we need to set ourselves upon the road to recovery. Reflections of Self is a poem about turning points and tells the story of mine.
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Posted June 1st, 2008 by Kay Elizabeth
I wrote Mask a number of years ago when I was struggling with a serious bout of depression amidst a failing marriage but was too proud, stubborn and ashamed to admit it to anyone else. I could barely accept it within myself, let alone ask for help. To me it would have been equivalent to admitting I wasn’t in control of my life and for this real perfectionist, that was unthinkable.
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