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    Family and Pets: A collection of poems
    Family and Pets: A collection of poems
    Family and Pets: A collection of poems
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    Family and Pets: A collection of poems

    By Stephanie Fletcher

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    This is book one in a series of three, all on different topics. Book ones' poems are about family, children and pets. All are easy to read and well written. Book two is called Inspirational Poems about love and spiritual matters. Book three, Poems About This and That.Topics from Insomnia, Fibromyalgia to today's Violence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephanie Fletcher
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9781476327952
    Family and Pets: A collection of poems
    Author

    Stephanie Fletcher

    Biography (29 10 2012)I am a Mother and best friend to three girls. I truly love my life and every person who has ever touched it with unconditional love, and I am grateful for all their support in my endeavours. I am now a grandmother for the first time in October 2012 and I am sure inspiration will come for some children's stories! I have a website for publishing my writing and poetry. The web link is http://www.stephanie-fletcher.co.ukI started writing seriously after having a traumatic event in my life and having a nervous breakdown to boot. My physical and mental health suffered greatly and now six years later, hand on heart, I can honestly say I am not the self-driven OCD perfectionist I was before.I had a spiritual enlightenment, counselling, and time, lots of time on my hands. I could have quit, and sank deeper into depression but I didn't. I am lucky enough to have three wonderful caring and considerate daughters who witnessed my decent into hell and back, and a family who never left my side. I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and hit life head on again like the Taurean bull I am.I had always written a journal of sorts, spasmodically, and the days of staring into thin air became times of inspiration. At first I was scared to show others my work. The last thing I needed was criticism that cuts you to the soul. I needn't of worried, only but a few people gave me critique that knocked my confidence and I began to grow as a writer.I am not very well educated, only secondary school and college at forty doing a creative writing course and gaining a certificate in counselling skills. I read a lot, anything and everything and I take notes everywhere, for use later in my work. I collect idioms and sayings, inspirational quotes etc and they all help. A voice recorder is handy for those nighttime ideas and I also read my work out loud, recording them and then playing back, as it is easier to see where something doesn't work. I have a programme called ‘dragon speak’ which types up my recordings and saves a lot of frustrating keyboard time, which does my arthritis no good! I like to do my original work long hand so I have a lot of A5 notebooks needing attention.Writing is never dull, or a job, I enjoy everyday I spend writing and often surprise myself at what comes out. I am now attempting my first Novel, called ‘Time Tells Tales’, a synopsis is on my website and the first book of the five tales is published as an e-book on Smashwords.com and is called ‘Alfred's Tale - Dead in a Ditch’. I have three collections of poetry and two short, novella type stories available as well, one of which is free, so go help your self to a copy!

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      Book preview

      Family and Pets - Stephanie Fletcher

      Family and Pets

      A Collection of Poems

      By

      Stephanie Fletcher

      * * * * *

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      * * * * *

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Stephanie Fletcher on Smashwords

      Acknowledgement to Gendrill Publishing for Cover Artwork, Formatting and Editing.

      Family and Pets

      A Collection Of Poems

      Copyright © 2012 by Stephanie Fletcher

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      These Poems are a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      I hope you enjoy reading these Poems as much as I have enjoyed writing them.

      Stephanie.

      * * * * *

      Family

      A Mother-to-be

      What news! What joy!

      Such utter disbelief...

      Who would of thought?

      It would happen to me!

      I am so happy!

      I am so glad!

      With tears of joy

      I told my dad

      At first he just stared

      At the floor, then at me

      It wouldn't sink in

      How could it be?

      You're still so young...

      With an incredulous look

      My words he acknowledged

      Yet his head he still shook

      "I think you need some time, Daddy

      So a long time he took

      "Daddy I'm pregnant!

      Yes pregnant!" I squealed

      With ear splitting glee

      The whole street now knew

      What he couldn't see

      Where's Mummy? I asked him

      I needed to know

      I needed to tell her

      Because Daddy was too

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