by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
the landlady she moved into the living room so casually no one protested. it’s a chill household, she had said. I lived by it even as the first livid blotches of mould spread up the kitchen wall and death took residence on the couch. I could...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
dis)connecting do not disturb is a phone setting and a feeling as I set out the evening breeze biting my cheek is an invitation I walk until I remember how to find shapes in clouds until I can smell the sweat on my upper lip until I can really...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 28, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Maungawhau Fed up with sitting dormant I shove my legs into compression tights double knot laces and leave the house for the first time in weeks. At the base of Mount Eden I muster the strength to move through its shadow. Pounding against the hard ground...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 27, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Present Good love is not always easy. It is driving rain and wind A small vessel in stormy seas Drowning Good love is not always hard. It is melting chocolate in the sun A slow, languorous heat Rising Good love is not always certain. It is a...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 26, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
vii) spray paint (Canto from Larger work – PHYLACTERY) accidentally italian again nozzle flecked in tricolore borrowed back from the streets of bristol and new york grubbier somehow embossed with...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A Mother’s Love: a contrapuntal Jade Prince is a 21 year old, recent BA English Literature with Creative Writing graduate. Over the last two years, she has fallen in love with constraint and experimental poetry. In particular, she enjoys pairing strange forms...