by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 2, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Tommy Builds A Cocktail Tommy spied a sun-dried palm tree in an untouched garden with crusty dark skin and cracks riddling all along its side, weeping out of its shell he aimed for a branch and down a coconut fell it didn’t implode on...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured, News, Poetry
Rallying Cry they ask me where i am from / and i do not know how to answer / because how do i tell them the story of my truths / when the all the sentences attached to them / have been conveniently buried / before they could reach the mouths of...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | May 31, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Carousel See the painted horses galloping in circles- I am one of them, struck through the belly with a swizzle stick, a gold pole as golden ...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | May 30, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
ESTUARY It is only the sun spitting rays Just the indefinite flight of a balloon that let go of its child It is only squinting, just a nod Just the chatter of a flock on the wire, hurried South It is only the last call Just glass breaking the...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | May 29, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Stash Your spaces silently narrow – slowly clogging arteries, plaque formed out of photographs, boxes stacked and shelves furred up, records, CDs, DVDs. Kitchen stuffed with cookery books, spiralisers, coffee machines and...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | May 28, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
mary anning, fossil hunter she wore her dead sister’s name as a cloak to ward off the sea’s icy wrath trawled stony beaches sought curiosities with cut calloused hands chiselled and hammered jurassic rocks to display ammon’s horns, snakestones,...