A Reluctant Anchorite

CarolNadine writes poetry and prose about Christian faith and spirituality. She lives with an isolating chronic health condition. Here is a selection of her work – nothing has been created by artificial algorithms. Everything you read and see is the result of human experience articulated by a human. Some organisations are scraping large amounts of data from the internet to train their AI systems and rarely ask permission from the artists themselves.

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Sins of the Daughter

It seems easier somehow to write about darkness and gloom than sunshine and light. I spent days trying to make something from a poem I sketched about a glorious experience in a beautiful place, and I could only seem to capture the palest glimpse of the moment.
A Reluctant Anchorite

I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember. Writing stories, scripts and poems in diaries, on scraps of paper and smartphone notes – all of which ended up in the bin. By some miraculous turn of events something has changed in my life, this poem I share here was the beginning of…

Sins of the Daughter