Y A Y A @batesyab

Marketing and PR specialist working in Tech! Posting poetry, spoken word, as well as music, ballet, fitness and life as a mum of 3. All views my own. 💞🌸 linktr.ee/poetrybyyaya London, UK Joined August 2012

Tweets

8K
Followers

2K
Following

4K
Likes

13K

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 days ago

Love this tune so much! On repeat and kitchen disco is in full swing! Get funky! 💃❤️ open.spotify.com/track/4rtCH1n7…

0 0 1 20 0

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 days ago

Back to ballet tonight after a long hiatus! I worried my pirouettes would be rusty, but landed some lovely clean doubles—and felt pleased that this old gal’s still got it! Xx

1 0 8 77 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 weeks ago

// When love is mutual, even time apart feels like a shared breath—like we’re still choosing each other from across the hours. Love, YAYA 🌸 I circle dates not just for plans— but for your return You’re only gone for a few days but love makes me watch the clock like it holds a…

0 0 5 131 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 weeks ago

When anxiety melts away the very moment you are greeted at boarding school by your bestie! Gonna miss this beauty after such a wonderful summer! Took the whole summer off to be with her, as these moments are too precious to miss! ☺️🌸 #boardingschool #vocationalballet…

0 0 5 127 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

4 weeks ago

When you’re always on camera in your daughter’s TikTok’s! 😂 xx

0 0 5 114 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

a month ago

A few holiday snaps that sum up the week! 😊 xxx

0 0 5 143 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

a month ago

After four fun days at Center Parcs we have just arrived at our beautiful (huge) holiday house in Dittisham and Eliza is playing on the gorgeous mini grand Bechstein! The views here are truly magical! What a stunning stay this will be for the next few days with Justin and our…

0 0 5 169 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

Happy Sunday lovelies! 🩷🌸 Who else is doing a Sunday gym sesh? 😃

0 0 7 121 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

// When the mirroring is not planned, not construed, but simply the hue—of both me and you—and the commonalities we shared before we found love. Love Yaya 🌸 It’s small easily missed— a sign-off without flourish But you write it like I do— not out of habit not for effect It’s…

0 0 8 185 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

Fabulous fun with Fab-YOU-less friends at the Bournemouth Reggae Weekender! 💃❤️😎🎶 xxx

0 0 6 175 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

// You said “now,” and I wrote it—still catching my breath from the way you saw me. Not just flesh. Not just posture.But the soul I let slip in the mirror when I wasn’t guarding it. Love, YAYA 💗🌸 11,867 Reasons Why (and still counting) You didn’t cast me You just noticed—…

0 0 5 128 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

I do not chase love anymore It writes me gently without claim without correction Just presence— steady as breath He writes but not to capture Only to reflect And I finally unscripted meet the page as myself Love notes by YAYA 🩷 #unscripted #fullyseen #love #steady

0 0 6 180 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

Aww 🥰 just had a little moment of joy: I’m on a mini break with my 13-year-old daughter—sharing a hotel room, just the two of us, and I’ve just heard her sleep-talking… in Italian. So brilliant. Still smiling. 😂❤️

0 0 4 108 0

Y A Y A @batesyab

2 months ago

1st day of official school holidays for my youngest! Brought her back from boarding school on Friday! She's had a busy weekend in Richmond, so today was achillled one with a walk into town for an iced cold coffee! Heading to Devon on Wednesday for a lil girlie beach 😎 break! X

0 0 6 314 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 months ago

Catching rays after a lovely stay at New Hall in Sutton Coldfield—Beautiful hotel Part of @HPicked_hotels - 📸 to follow!! Watched Eliza shine 🤩 in her summer performance—She was incredible! Even the Vice principal said how her eyes were drawn to her last night! So proud! 🥰❤️

2 0 9 724 0

Download Video

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 months ago

Wonderful weekend with my bestie who popped over from Portugal to see her daughter perform her solo @RoyalBalletSch summer performance, followed by watching F1 @ Barnes Olympic Cinema! Even got a little gift from my man- some Dior perfume he brought back from France 🇫🇷 #Luckygirl

0 0 4 208 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 months ago

Suspenders and sparkly to welcome my man back from France! Off to watch the F1 movie 🎬 together at Barnes Olympic cinema tonigh! ❤️xxx

1 0 7 254 0

Download Image

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 months ago

Aww 🥰 My boyfriend gave me my own set of keys to his house in Richmond yesterday! ❤️While he hopped on the Eurostar to France this morning for the Le Mans race, I stayed behind—prepping presentations for my 2nd & 4th IVs on Monday &?Tuesday. I couldn’t join him this time, but…

1 0 9 244 0

Y A Y A @batesyab

3 months ago

Aww 🥰 I love my boyfriend. He messaged me in the quiet early hours to say he’s finished the rough draft of his new feature film, set in Australia. Said I must be inspiring him as his muse… the last one he wrote was five years ago, and it’s only just about to go into production.…