Bittersweet Love for BBC Radio Derby Upload
I was lucky enough to have my poem Bittersweet Love featured on BBC Radio Derby. Here is it for you to listen to.
Bittersweet Love
Young love. Married at nineteen, he slightly older at twenty-two. Parents only months after. Twin girls born in July. Private baptisms need to be quick. Just in case. One grows into August. The other buried, left small in July. Life moves on in quiet sorrow. A war breaks out – The Great War. Young men…
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