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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Sef

The body is not solid. The body is almost perfect.

Wayne F. Burke

faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened

Jon Miller

The upper floor of the old byre
a darkness made of owl-stare—
its blink drinks you in.

Salvatore Difalco

No green swell this evening
will detach me from my hat.

Annah Atane

That night,
the stars had slept. The wind
silent as something dying.

Previously featured

Miguel Cullen

The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended  crest and  mouth.

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Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Recent Haiku

Wayne F. Burke

faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened

Debbie Strange

midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire

Debbie Strange

winterberry
the first holiday
alone

On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

News

Word & Image

Molly Knox

Molly Knox

Ferns There was a cold winding music a frozen answer. I knelt under time’s branches. The year the ferns sang. The year...

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Filmpoems

Lee Campbell

Lee Campbell

One day, one day
We will sit on that bench
under the lights
Overlooking the river
which you sweetly
think is the sea

read more

Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Sef

The body is not solid. The body is almost perfect.

Wayne F. Burke

faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened

Jon Miller

The upper floor of the old byre
a darkness made of owl-stare—
its blink drinks you in.

Salvatore Difalco

No green swell this evening
will detach me from my hat.

Annah Atane

That night,
the stars had slept. The wind
silent as something dying.

News

Word & Image

Molly Knox

Molly Knox

Ferns There was a cold winding music a frozen answer. I knelt under time’s branches. The year the ferns sang. The year...

read more

Filmpoems

Lee Campbell

Lee Campbell

One day, one day
We will sit on that bench
under the lights
Overlooking the river
which you sweetly
think is the sea

read more

Previously featured

Miguel Cullen

The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended  crest and  mouth.

read more

Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Recent Haiku

Wayne F. Burke

faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened

Debbie Strange

midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire

Debbie Strange

winterberry
the first holiday
alone

On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley

today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

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