by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku * small boy under his feet skyscraper shadows * kitchen table at the master’s place a tiny spider * evening forest not quite big enough for all the shadows * Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku (which...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Happiness in my lockdown sock drawer Test-tubes, conical flasks and molecules. Back to A Level Chemistry with Mr Cartwright we learn about magnetism with marker pen examples. A moon lander, planets and a telescope and I am back in my childhood...
by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com)...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Mrs McNab All of a sudden, would Mrs McNab see that the house was ready, one of the young ladies wrote…Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. She comes as summoned, care taker with a leer, a lurch, a grinding of boots on shingle, tears cobweb veils of...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Night A gymnasium with crepe paper and leather soles, an iron box with only singles, rain without the drop, a clever dance where the floor taps our shoes. I cling to your scapula, your hand, like clothespins, like darkness, following the...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Stars Emerging from the tent at 3am, you see this field of fools, that hedge, the sea, all subtly lit by an array of stars in numbers that your mind cannot compute. They’re barnacles fixed on a dark flat rock, and that faint streak of quartz marks...
