by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A Jar of Honey Would Give the Poem Away instead let’s ponder the idea stay silent let the flowers of the fields come into your vision lavender thyme verbena breathe in their scents let them speak to your senses tease your nostrils ...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 4, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Now She can’t remember why she started recording their FaceTime calls. Now, when she’s lonely, she scrolls through this small library of conversations and chooses one. It took a whole February weekend to transcribe and learn her lines...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 3, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Act Summer began with a bike, its frame painted red, one thin wheel. The focus was balance, hours of clinging to walls and doors; fences and fingertips, pigtails and ears. It became about a clown; greasepaint mouth sadways striped dungarees,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Ballet audition Bent, a teapot, arthritic neck its handle, lips protruding from the spout she’s irked because I fail to retain the enchaînements. She sees a lazy teen – she doesn’t see a girl walking London each night, imagining death more...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
45rpm heart block is a slowness or abnormality in the heart’s rhythm due to a fault in its electrical conduction system. tread wrong here and the needle jumps — skrt-skrt-skrt. iggy pop plays the songs on christmas day, picks from discs wrinkled...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 29, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Portrait of a country What is your country in a definition? When the first ship anchored on the shore of the Atlantic. My country became an experiment of – forced marriage. As with guns, plough and religious wars, they wedded three...
