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Join date: Dec 8, 2022
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Martin Pickard is one of the co-founders of Poets with Parkinson’s and has hosted their open mic events since 2021. He finds poetry a helpful therapy and a tool for advocacy on behalf of the Parkinson’s community. After a 50 year successful career in the facilities management industry Martin experienced a creative surge following the onset of Parkinson's in his mid 60’s and now performs at poetry events as a "shaken word artist." Martin lives in a Bedfordshire village with his wife and cocker spaniel.
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Dec 12, 2025 ∙ 2 min
Poets News December 2025
Hello Again, Poetry Lovers, And so we reach the end of another year together. So far in 2025 we have between us shared 188 poems which have been collectively viewed 5,600 times by 600 different visitors. There are now over 1500 of our poems collected together in the Poets Wall and they are all brilliant! Unfortunately I am finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the Poet’s Wall website and am very conscious that there are now many links that do not work and complete sections that...
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Nov 30, 2025 ∙ 2 min
The Ballad of Elizabeth Snagge
The night was dark, a velvet band around a lover’s eye. The moon was slowly dying in the late December sky. The wind was gently crooning its malignant lullaby, when Lady Snagge came riding - In haste she came down Wood End Lane, homeward bound to Lord Moreteyne when she came riding by. With hat pulled down, in cloak and gown to ward off winter weather. Her saddle, crop and boots were made of finest Spanish leather with golden chains and sparkling rings drawn from her Lordship’s treasure....
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Oct 22, 2025 ∙ 2 min
It Takes an Army...
I went to see an Ologist, cos something wasn’t right. He said it wasn’t Parkinson’s but then again it might. He sent me to an I-Atrist to analyse my mind. She came to the conclusion that my brain was in decline. She gave me medication that she said would be my saviour and passed me to an Erapist for cognitive behaviour. The Nose Consultant grunted at my loss of sense of smell and a Podi-Something-I-Trist checked the way I walk as well. An Ologist on sleeping made me spend a night in bed...
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