Happy National Poetry Day! And, as the theme this year is dreams, Sweet Dreams to those who don't normally dabble in stanzas and verse. Actually, the theme this year is rather apt for me for several reasons...

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Firstly, since starting school full-time my son has not been sleeping well at night. Instead of sweet dreams, he seems to be having a lot of bad dreams and has become scared of lots of things almost overnight! Still, we are hoping it is just a phase and with lots of love and patience he'll soon settle down into a happy routine at school, which he generally seems to enjoy. Fingers crossed!

Since my son started school and his younger brother only has two more years to go (starting playgroup after October half-term),I have also been thinking a lot lately about dreams of the ambitions sort. Call it a mid-life crisis or simply someone with suddenly a lot more time on their hands but I've been wondering what comes next. (I'm the sort of person that needs to have some sort of challenge to work towards.) Obviously, there will be more poetry and more reading but what else? Do I look for a part-time job or retrain for a new career? (I wouldn't want to go back to working as a journalist for a newspaper full-time.) If so, what? Or should I just wait and see what happens? My dreams have always been fairly simple (but not necessarily easy to achieve!): to be happy, a good mum and to write (to sleep more has also been added to the list since having children!).

Finally, the opening line of the poem I'm working on at the moment is "I dream..." This is completely coincidental, as it is about politics and animals (?!) not dreams. Still, I guess poetry does move in mysterious ways!