Our Creative Writing Group members brought their latest compositions to the session on Wednesday 20 May 2026 and in the process covered some four millennia in time with their creative efforts.

We started with the story of a stray kitten that had been found by a young girl and was taken to the vet. There being no microchip, the kitten was checked and healthy and taken to an animal shelter where it found a new keeper and started another chapter in its nine lives.

We then moved on to the story of a newly trained reiki master who, having been healed herself, decides to dedicate her spare time to providing healing in a cancer clinic. The process of healing others in turn provides healing for the reiki master, and turns her life around.

We then had a sequence of Haikus and a poem about a cat and its weapons of mass destruction – “the claws at the end of its paws!” We then travelled to Africa for a fictitious report on the real situation in schools where terrorists kidnap children, either for slavery or for worse. To lighten the mood after that, we had a piece about the word “change” and its many meanings in the English language.

We had a funny poem “Shall I go or shall I stay” which could have been applied equally to the manager of a football team or a political party. That was followed by an introspective piece looking at the effects children have on their mother. From the family we moved to a fall in a museum of ancient technology where the fallen person dreams he has travelled back in time and is made to work in their workshop. We closed with a short poem about what is like to suffer from a cold!

Our next session will be on Wednesday 03 June 2026 at 10:00am.