
Colleen Millsteed
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My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Not Lamb Brain Fritters. Top Story - May 2022.
Hello Mum, As May is the month of Mother’s Day, Vocal has a new challenge for writers to conquer. It asks that we write you an open letter and confess to something we never planned to tell you and that got me thinking.
By Colleen Millsteed 4 years ago in Confessions
The Truth And Nothing But The Truth
Dear step-mother, Oh boy, just that title alone would have seen the back of my thighs black and blue for days. Hence why it has taken me this long to admit, I have a confession to make, although I never had any intention of confessing my crime. Not sure why, because I’ve been punished for it a thousand times over, albeit without any proof it was even me.
By Colleen Millsteed 4 years ago in Confessions












