by Memoona Zahid | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Hi, you. Mouth slightly open to the sight of dandelion: why’d you shove it in? Bitter lion teeth, breathtakingly ticklish, seed in a wrong bed. Cheng Tim Tim is a teacher and a poet born in Hong Kong to a Hokkien family. Her poems have been...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Froglet Bisexual began in the tiny black pupil of a frogspawn pearl. It grew inside a jellied eye, shuddering out a tail, feathered gills. Dilating as it observed a dim world, sucking in light like a vacuum. Collapsing in on itself, reforming, nudging...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 24, 2021 | Featured, Prose
Happiness is Free Wifi – After the billboard in Ealing Broadway shopping centre. Contentment walks into a coffee shop, is offered super-speed free Happiness with her blueberry muffin, under 100 calories. ‘FUCK ME’, Contentment gleams. The...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The depressed girl makes a smoothie Strawberries. Cut them up into pebble-sized pieces. They’re supposed to go out of date in three days but one of them already has mould growing on it. It reminds me of the sky I see through my bedroom window on a mostly...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 23, 2021 | Word & Image
What do you keep in your cupboard when it rains? An apple (forever round – forever red) which I bite infinitely wised. I keep you within the dip of my hand, who knits and keeps together my destiny lines, like a zen garden. An ocean of rain water, to drink...
