by Fathima Zahra | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight cherry, pear, apple tree. Goodnight pond, stop wriggling, newts, stop zipping the water, water-boatmen. Goodnight, glossy horses on the hill, rabbits in the field, white...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 26, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
[Haiku] how do I begin? the song of a robin is lost in the telling Clare Bryden is a writer, artist and consultant based in Exeter. Her interests are wide-ranging, but primarily the place of human beings within the natural...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
like snow an etherial whiteness that covers and disguises as a strip of white frosted glass conceals an interior or spray from lorry wheels obliterates the road * the nets across windows blurred reality in childhood pale curtain-light enclosed the room with mystery...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Hot Cross Buns Ambling up North Street on a Saturday afternoon at the end of a long Winter, I am stopped by two women, elderly, smiling eyes and mouths, lip-sticked, offering an open pack of hot cross buns from the NISA shop down the road. The shorter of the two with...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
LULLABY of CALMING – Do you take spec in your tea? Lavender seeps. I expect my limbs to leaden, lead the body down through sheet, mattress-cover, into the machinery of sleep where other lives exist. Landscapes of folding...
