Another favourite poem, which I also made into a song.  It was inspired by my long association with Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge.  I went there with my parents regularly through my childhood, and with my first love Stewart,  we got engaged at the ‘engagement tree’  we even had an ‘all is well tree’.  We took our children and dogs there nearly every weekend, and my grown up children still love to go there when they are here. It is my healing place…….where I go when my spirit needs soothing.  It is also very special in mine and Richards life, though getting more difficult for me to access the more out of the way places with my painful legs.

I wrote this poem after yet another solitary walk in Hardcastle Crags.  I had eaten a very ‘seedy’ satsuma!

This poem is my favourite from my book, and came to me one morning, almost like it was ‘sent’ to me by another source, the words came pouring out. It was obviously triggered by the sight of all the autumn leaves in the canal.

I wrote this poem at a particularly dark time in my life, you can probably tell!