NaPoWriMo 2022

It’s National Poetry Writing Month. (Seems like a good excuse for a blog post!)

I was having a bad night. I thought about Plath (luckily I can conjure up some of her lines, in my head) and wrote a poem about living with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). PMDD is an endocrine disorder affecting about 5% of women. Read about it, here:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/premenstrual-dysphoric-disorder-pmdd/about-pmdd/

Here’s the Plath poem, that kickstarted my own:
https://allpoetry.com/Sheep-In-Fog

Published by Elaine Baker

Poet

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