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I Watch the Stars Instead

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021by Emma Gibb

A poem written during lockdown about getting outdoors.

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Starting School

Posted on August 6, 2020by Emma Gibb

He led the wayAnd wherever he goes, you follow.You joined the line behind him on his first day,(Indignant when we gently told you no, you couldn’t go.Don’t be in a rush, your time will come,and soon enough).And when I let go of his hand,I still had yours to hold,My littlest.You filled the house with noise […]

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The World Outside Your Window

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020by Emma Gibb

Spring had just begun When they pressed pause and the world stopped. No school, no clubs, no to-ing and fro-ing. Instead – Board games, bike rides, bare feet, Dandelion and daisy chains. Every thing slow ed down. Not knowing for how long this would go on. Rainbows on windows Friends and family on screens (oh, […]

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Metamorphosis 

Posted on September 26, 2017September 27, 2017by Emma Gibb
a poem about becoming a mother

A poem about becoming a mother   In the moment you arrived and your cry echoed through my heart I became someone new. A different version of myself as if I’d stepped from a cocoon. Still the same but changed.   So deep deep in love, exhausted, transformed, in awe and terrified. A mother. Still […]

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Lucky 

Posted on September 11, 2017September 11, 2017by Emma Gibb

Parenthood poetry   I woke tired and grumpy today after a night with an unsettled little and a lie-in that was broken up by prodding fingers and shouts and shrieks. I went outside to the garden, cradling a cup of tea drank in some sunshine, picked the last of the sweetpeas, took a few moments […]

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A Big Step

Posted on August 17, 2017August 17, 2017by Emma Gibb

When they placed you on my chest and I smiled and said, “Oh, it’s you”, as if I already knew the corners of your face, this day felt so very far away. Baby days spent in a bubble with toddler days stretched out ahead – fort-building, slow toddler-paced walks outdoors, and afternoons curled up in […]

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Now You’re Two

Posted on April 29, 2017June 12, 2017by Emma Gibb

You’re two. I look at you and wonder when you changed and how you grew so much before my eyes. I didn’t notice the small changes day by day – it took me by surprise. Suddenly – overnight, or so it seems – you are a little girl with a personality so big and a […]

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My Lap is Always Your Chair

Posted on March 13, 2017May 7, 2018by Emma Gibb

The walls will change And the rooms and the doors, Yes, things may look different But it will be as before. Walls are just walls. A house isn’t a home when you take it apart When it’s empty of everything It’s missing its heart. When we pack up the books, the hand prints and frames […]

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These Days

Posted on August 4, 2016May 7, 2018by Emma Gibb

There are days when it feels like I’m swimming upstream, Or treading water just to keep afloat. Hit by waves of guilt For having to split myself in two. And I feel like I’m sinking under the weight of all there is to do. The hard days, the long days, the days when I’m fuelled […]

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Now She’s One

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016by Emma Gibb

A year now. Days that have passed in a blink; like the pages of a book left open in the wind.   I cling to the here-and-now, before it’s another do-you-remember-when. Now she is one and he is three. The nights are long but I know this time is brief and oh-so-precious, and I try, in the […]

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