Spring Poetry Walk Hidden Gloucester Green Spaces (by sarah)

The haze of the day glitters on shredded metal waving in the breeze of promised spring as winter melts #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/Afc0RjURp5

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) March 21, 2018

Hidden History Gloucester #PoetryWalk (by sarah)

Finding history marked, scored in the stones, a trail winding waiting to be, behind the Cathedral reigns, in majestic glory, a little walk, a little think, moments on an icy morning whilst in search of tea #poetrywalk #Gloucester @ProjectPilgrim1 pic.twitter.com/T78XI1tcNv

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) March 27, 2018

Staffordshire PoetryWalk (by sarah)

This poem was composed on a walk in Staffordshire during our family holiday and general area explore, I compose these poetry walks whilst walking for the medium of twitter.

Sunsets & sheep & mice kept my mind nice, walks in the noon & morning too, helped the thoughts to flow & so the ideas did grow, until now I sit with memories fit, writing of people & places & Easter egg races, a landscape of old, so much to be told #poetrywalk #staffordshire pic.twitter.com/x4XGGGRbAH

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 12, 2018

Tamworth Castle Aethelflaed Quest PoetryWalk (by sarah)

Poem composed as tweets during our visit to Tamworth Castle during our quest to find out about Queen Aethelflaed and all things Anglo-Saxon - the castle contained much history from many time periods - here are the embedded tweets.

Tamworth Castle - a little Russian doll of a castle with different ages and life styles hidden and recorded within, layers of history nestled in the eves along with an errant pigeon, I met a lady with a sword #poetrywalk #history pic.twitter.com/mvaHg3kK8a

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 12, 2018

Hidden Gloucester Green Space Poetry Walk (by sarah)

For a few years now I have been doing poetry walks where I take my phone or camera and write poems in tweet form as I take the photos, it started off with the phone before the head injury but has mainly been camera since due to the difficulty of tweeting and walking at the same time! I often turn these in picture poem/stories on Turquoise Monster and so on but that can take ages and I fear I loose some of the poems by just forgetting them so I've decided to embed the tweets on here as an interim :)

A few weeks ago I was at a talk where someone said that city landscapes were of no interest because they were devoid of nature and someone else countered that Gloucester was full of green and hidden spaces. I have been searching out things like the hidden art and history so I decided that I would also actively hunt out the green spaces.

In the city of #Gloucester there hides a space of green that stretches & connects this world of brick & steel to that of ancient castles & older woodlands the River sings her song as birds swoop to pick or talk & insects with flashing glitters of wings dart to & throw #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/hH99PWqevA

— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018