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...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Still Face Experiment You must have seen that Youtube clip where a mother lets her face go dead. Her toddler carries on burbling for twenty to thirty seconds until she realises there is nothing coming back to her. First it is surprise, even laughing as this must...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Waiting For Mark After you died, someone asked: What was it like in those final sixteen days waiting for your son to die? I was not waiting. Wanting, yes. Hoping, yes. For more days. Finding joy in small things, a game of Camel Cup, your favourite...
