by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
The ash tree A superb winter sunrise backlights edges of cloud tinting sky above and bay below the palest blue, hints of gold glistening on the water. Beneath a faint sliver of rainbow a young ash, bold denier of dieback pushing through a broken wall wears a light...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 16, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
How To Remain Human This Year We give a throwaway kiss to strangers, to see New Year in. We plant the seed with hope it will grow, form fruit, to feed us. We put a pound in the tin or a direct debit for life. We dispense sympathy,...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
CANNIBALISE THE CORRUPTION, I GUESS Ok? Everyone’s dying. You’re not special. You’ve a Tree in your stomach, Splitting the roof of your mouth, Leaves curled around teeth, and your skull Cracking like an ancient castle? Nothing I haven’t seen...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 13, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dead of Winter Someday I’ll be gray and not white. Just like blonde was prettier on the playground, white is the bride of winter. Gray makes the dead sick. If my inner child is kidnapped, I’ll freeze my nightmares to that ole pole. I don’t...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 12, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
A Rumination With ginger chai, lounged in the balcony, Revisiting the years she and her spouse Endeavoured for a better, self-owned house, She takes a breath of content, finally. But why is there no lustre in her eyes? Nostalgia? This cannot be...
