Writing For Pleasure - Carol

Carol wrote this poem about the Creative Writing Group that meets at our Centre each week:

"I write because I want to, how about you, does it give you a buzz?

I write about what I know or about what I've heard

And it's fun to write fiction too, what do you do?

Do you write like our Kay, who likes things her own way

And if not, someone will pay, they will die or be sent to jail.

Maybe you're like Mike who gives us information so useful or not.

Thelma let's us into her life & we feel her trouble & strife, we feel what she's saying.

Dorothy writes now & again, when she does she cooks up a storm.

Writing for pleasure is what our dentist Bill does

In a world of his own he likes to stay but he always has a bloomin' lot to say.

We miss our June & her ditties, if she doesn't come back it will be such a pity.

Our newest recruit is on a level of his own

He's so new that I've forgotten his name

It hasn't taken him long to make us all speechless.

We all write for pleasure & we all share with each other

Local knowledge from our Diana who loves to write for children's events

Our volunteer Bill just does it well, even if it only makes sense to him &nobody else.

We get each other, we are united in our pleasure

We write because we can, we write as a group, that is our pleasure.

And our Andrea knows just exactly how to read it out, she has our measure."

Carol