by Ivory Web | Oct 21, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
We've a choice of styles for you today – verse poetry and a prose poem – enjoy…YOU’VE PROBABLY SAIDsomething funny:that’s your usual way.She’s thrown her head backand laughed. You like herbecause she’s not afraidto do this. You like herbecause she laughsat...
by Ivory Web | Oct 20, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Spinner’s End(fragments of disappointment, alienation, babbling and resolve)There were no cakes in the tin, but it was a very pretty tin decorated with rainbows melting into the electric image of people laughing in their adult world… And it was all a con. We...
by Ivory Web | Oct 19, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* IS&T editor Charles Christian likes to keep his postings to a minimum but with the UK currently enjoying a St Martin's Summer (Oh, look it up) here's a seasonal haiga.
by Ivory Web | Oct 18, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
I Believe Mrs. Allen, why did you tell ussecond-graders that our guardianangels wouldn’t follow us intoa liquor store? I spent hours wondering how to get M&M’sfrom the corner market, where Baileysand Smirnoff bottles loomedlike Satanic shadowsover the...
by Ivory Web | Oct 17, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Pendle Hill ‘…finest view in all of England’ – Queen Mary from Downham Church Before the Church the Queen proclaimed:‘the finest view in all of England’ -meaning the royal view from theretowards the imposing hill...