Do You Prefer Meeting Through Dating Apps or Real-Life?

Do You Prefer Meeting Through Dating Apps or Real-Life?

Premeditation vs spontaneity? Love or casual fun? Intentional or non-intentional? Naivety or logical? Risk level: it remains to be seen unless you roll the die. Reality or fiction? Technically they’re both reality, just in different, polarising formats. One is sensory the other is pixelated. Leaving your love life in the hands of a computerised algorithm [...]

Comparing Your Partner To Your Mother? Complimentary Or Questionable?

Comparing Your Partner To Your Mother? Complimentary Or Questionable?

Remind you of your mother? Cook just like your mother but she adds a secret ingredient? Could this comparison be a recipe for disaster or a life of tight-knit familia bliss? I’m sure we’ve all been there, if not, how’ve you managed to escape it?! Great guy, family ties, you’re winning. You align family loyalty [...]

Why Your Present-Day May Be A Test, Gift-Wrapped.

Why Your Present-Day May Be A Test, Gift-Wrapped.

The past has led me here. What about my future? Why today could be the choice that changes forever, within a blink of an eye. Religion, your outlook is never the same. You believe in a higher power, second guessing if this is the life I’m meant to live, or simply a trick diversion that [...]

A Time Capsule – Poem.

A Time Capsule – Poem.

A lucid dream,  Sordid I now see, A calculated calibration,  Mistaken sedation, The soul laid bare, Yours, if only you cared. Memories treasured in time, As you rewrite what’s mine, Exploitation, personified. A new summer’s day, falsified, Pea smoke fog mystifies,  Programmed, I stay hypnotised. Rewired, who am I? Copyright © 2024 by Antonia Dale

My Birthday in Lockdown!

My Birthday in Lockdown!

In the words of Taylor Swift, "I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22!". Me being... me The day has come. I never thought I'd be spending a birthday in lockdown, and was eagerly hoping that restrictions would be lifted just in time (not to have a party) but to at least see another [...]