Creative Writing

This section features some of the best and most recent poems, short stories and sometimes humorous writings, showcasing the imagination and literary talent here at Headway East London.

Confidence Poem

December 1, 2011

Co-ordinate your routine
Organise the way your mind is working
Now I can accept myself
Friendship makes me feel happy
Identify the solution
Diary helps you organise your life
Experiment every day
Negative thoughts need to be …

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Guy The Gorilla

May 25, 2011

It was 1953 and I had just turned five. As a day to remember, my Mum took me to London Zoo for I was due to start school soon. The …

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The Great Plane Robbery

March 26, 2010

Better known amongst the Shoreditch/East London criminal underworld elite, Tony (The Toe) Knee was a wanted notorious gang leader who, in 1968, masterminded a crime involving a London/Glasgow postal plane. …

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We Were So In Love But It’s All Over Now

September 21, 2009

We were, I thought, very much in love, but it’s over, we have split.
We have had to face the fact; it’s over, this is it.
We accept now that it’s over, …

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Bruce

September 8, 2009

Bruce eats mice, because the time is so nice.
And the influence of his vice.
He thinks he’s so nice.
And maybe he could find a price for his mice?
Indeed, he is, so …

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The Candidates

May 11, 2009

Are you coming to bed?’ Susie asked, ‘or is your entire weekend going to be devoted to the firm?’ Malcolm Cummings, Commissioning Editor for Watson Tyler (U.K.), the largest American …

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