A haiga from Pris Campbell

*Pris Campbell’s haiga have appeared in Haigaonline, Haijinx, Sketchbook, Notes From the Gean and others. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize for her free verse poetry. She has also published six collections of poetry. Formerly a Clinical...

Maureen Weldon 'On Writing Confusing Poems'

On Writing Confusing PoemsI write confusing poems, I am told.When the doorbell ringsI race down the stairsin my sexy high heel boots -expecting to see you there.A mirage of mind, I think.What the hell -I will go back to my desk alone -hold the nib in my hand,and write...

Deborah Alma's 'right man'

When You’re Ready the Right Man will Come AlongTaking my cup of tea back to bed this morning,the air was stillbut I could just see, obliquely,the telegraph wire stretched across the streetvibrating and saggingquite alarmingly. What bloody heavy sodding bird is that? I...

Nicola Teasdale's 'Sandblasted'

SandblastedEyes trained on the distance, beyond the lighthouse, out to sea. Standing on the metal, clang and echo. Once you could slip inside through the gap, wander round, through the eerie concrete passageways, but not any more. Too grown up, too big. This used to...