by Emma-Jane Barlow | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
For the last few years I have been writing poems about my life. I always planned to create a poetry collection but it wasn’t until recently I decided to group them together and start editing. Darkness and Light is a collection of emotionally-driven poems about...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
During the past few years, I have struggled with my mental health. I have General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which means I constantly worry about everything and experience high amounts of anxiety for no reason at all. It took me a long time to accept that my anxiety was...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
I feel like I’m lost at sea and I am barely keeping my head above the water. I kick my legs to stay alive and I can see the sun on the horizon but no matter how hard I try to swim towards it, the waves take me in a different direction. Some days, I feel the warm...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Mar 2, 2014 | Poetry
Walking Stardust Breathing in the warmth of your skin, your eyelashes flutter like petals, sleeping. I stare into the dusty black room. Light creeps through the blinds. Hitting the wall with its luminous glow. A romantic feeling pulses through the layers of my skin. I...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
A beacon of light saved me. July 15th was the day that everything changed. It was an ordinary morning, the sun was shining but sadness clouded my mind, I was on the edge of destruction, praying for salvation. Darkness had snatched away the hope that I would one day...