by Fathima Zahra | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Forecasts of Flight Stripping wallpaper leaves naked the scrawls of yesteryear’s children, small forecasts of flights that are inevitable. Youthful skill teasing dreams of rocket ships, large soaring birds, treasure islands, galloping horses, and measurements of...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight cherry, pear, apple tree. Goodnight pond, stop wriggling, newts, stop zipping the water, water-boatmen. Goodnight, glossy horses on the hill, rabbits in the field, white...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 26, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
[Haiku] how do I begin? the song of a robin is lost in the telling Clare Bryden is a writer, artist and consultant based in Exeter. Her interests are wide-ranging, but primarily the place of human beings within the natural...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
like snow an etherial whiteness that covers and disguises as a strip of white frosted glass conceals an interior or spray from lorry wheels obliterates the road * the nets across windows blurred reality in childhood pale curtain-light enclosed the room with mystery...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Hot Cross Buns Ambling up North Street on a Saturday afternoon at the end of a long Winter, I am stopped by two women, elderly, smiling eyes and mouths, lip-sticked, offering an open pack of hot cross buns from the NISA shop down the road. The shorter of the two with...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
LULLABY of CALMING – Do you take spec in your tea? Lavender seeps. I expect my limbs to leaden, lead the body down through sheet, mattress-cover, into the machinery of sleep where other lives exist. Landscapes of folding...
