by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
New Year I start the day early with a cup of tea. A new diary asks I make an affirmation, while cleaning my teeth. I have nothing to offer – Where did this despair come from? Yesterday I took my son to Casualty, for an X-ray on his fractured...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 31, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas scents No Nordmann firs in Bethlehem. No holly or ivy. But pomegranate, almond, fig and olive trees to anoint with signs of blessing and peace. And houses don’t smell of Balsam pine but of frankincense that can remain potent for...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Filmpoems, Twelve Days of Christmas
cw: flickering images Melon Moon for Idris, my light One winter I remember he looked up and said: ‘the moon is a melon.’ We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll to look for Father Christmas. The Oak Moon on that longest night hung high over Green Horse...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
the first holiday Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
