A quick one! I only just heard about this today, luckily it is day 1 so it was perfect timing. This is a Facebook challenge for poets. A mass gathering centred on one thing – writing a poem a day for thirty days and posting within the group. In honour of the beginning of Ramadan […]
Cobwebs drift between tall grass clumps, spinning me a lighter than cashmere jumper as I run through strands Tall Box trees glinting green and gold, endowed with a thousand lucky pennies, mine drops at my feet and I scoop it up Tuck it in my pocket and run on even faster Soft earth absorbing the […]
My heart has a clock And it ticks and it tocks It grinds and whirrs, writing everything down in its heartful mind At 2pm it beats one beat deep with grief, remembering visiting hours At 3pm it beats fast as I feel I’ve forgotten something just for a minute Then I recall, they are no […]
“Is it cold?” I look up into the smiling face of a woman wearing a beige coloured swimming cap I lift my foggy goggles and realise that no, in fact, she wears no cap She is bald Cancer Chemo Radiation The words pop into my head and Suddenly my own rubber cap Bright purple and […]
I walk out of the town pool into a grey dripping sky Rain on my shoulders doesn’t bother me – why would it? I’m wet I drive my car down a grey street, above which, the lights are still on, perhaps they are yet to acknowledge the sun is awake, lying behind its thick blanket […]
