by Helen Ivory | Jan 7, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Bloody September Boko Haram fighters staged gun and suicide bomb attacks on a military camp outside the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state ~ TheDefensePost That night, the stars had slept. The wind silent as something...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 6, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
onwards hamlet asked it to the dark night sea where do waters end and i begin where the moonlight shimmers on a cragged rock to which i tie my errant being hard against the night solid against the wind it still erodes but just more slowly it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
In Remembrance of Stars Past The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth. I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and see Pavarotti singing Lacrimozart by Salieri. In the park you...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Forever Spring inside the apiary it is always spring human beings and honey bees cohabiting pursuing life everlasting for our species which is the universe opening its eyes 50 per cent humidity 21 degrees celsius simulated sunlight cold and bone...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
We Should Probably Get Up Now but, outside, the world has paused: the wind has put down its loneliness, its fear of never being seen, or known, and next door’s kids have stopped screaming through the wall. The cats are curled up around our...
