by Helen Ivory | Dec 27, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
What the Woodcutter Knows About Midwinter The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall. The wind is hag-ridden through the forest, keening between the branches. In the darkness he sets his axe at the base of the tree, notches the trunk...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 26, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
A Berbice Christmas, 1962 Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets up the doorstep, Mother Sally big face rotating through bedroom windows...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Filmpoems, Twelve Days of Christmas
cw: flickering images Melon Moon for Idris, my light One winter I remember he looked up and said: ‘the moon is a melon.’ We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll to look for Father Christmas. The Oak Moon on that longest night hung high over Green Horse...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
the first holiday Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 25, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas
Parable For thirty years, O Lord, we have lived in a house without foundations. And now it is Christmas again, we drape lights from the living apple tree to the dead one, haul o come o come from the piano, set the innumerable specials, the host of...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 24, 2025 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Madonna del Parto A fresco by Piero della Francesca, c.1460 Piero painted her in a week, after his mother died, her azure gown split open like a ripe plum, her posh girl fingers resting on the mystery, all swollen belly and haloed radiance. She...
