Miki has an honours degree in three dimensional Design and a PGCE in Education. she has had many jobs including teacher, musician, music business manager and poet. She has written three poetry collections, had work included in over 160 poetry magazines and anthologies and won poetry competitions. She has read on both Radio and TV, judged poetry competitions and was a finalist for Poet Laureate of Gloucestershire. She opened Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2014 with the launch of her latest collection, ‘Flying Through Houses’ available from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Miki is disabled and lives near Tewkesbury. UK.
I see the lights a-glitter.
I hear the choir in song.
Children gaze, sparkly-eyed
For Christmas won't be long.
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Deep inside the hillsides gut,
I see its entrails. Not soft like mine,
nor red with pulsing blood
but made of its own devising.
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In the church, sunlight slants through coloured saints.
Paints the floor in rainbows. A flower sentry
made by earnest ladies, stands tall by the door, Scents the air
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