by Helen Ivory | Jul 9, 2022 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
sky, sea and sand … in light and palm shadow old dog and me * a face in the care home window sliver of moon * obituaries circled in his week-old newspaper … deep winter * dipping in the mountain lake me and spring moon * thunder-leaden...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Lampedusa I know this is risky and that I will probably lose the boat, but the shipwrecked on board are exhausted, I will bring them to safety. Video released by Sea-Watch, Guardian For the 43 souls waiting in the port; for lampas the torch,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
circumference words do not suit do not fit the towns i travel to i’ve this habit of locating new neighbours with different physiognomies * always there are uniforms on the march intractable comic heroes in animal disguises i say very little i...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Alone at the New Road Hotel He is right to suspect me of infidelity, there will be other rooms, there have been rooms before. At the old textile factory turned hip hotel, in Whitechapel’s tatty bravado, as the brutal heat is sucked from the day...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A Jar of Honey Would Give the Poem Away instead let’s ponder the idea stay silent let the flowers of the fields come into your vision lavender thyme verbena breathe in their scents let them speak to your senses tease your nostrils ...
