Friday, September 23, 2022

On the Water

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  So small a boat atop so wide a water, seeing myself reflected two-dimensional over so vast a depth, and afraid. So vast the dept...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

What is a Kingfisher?

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  Kingfisher: an emission of blue light resulting from the discharge of electricity following the path of shortest distance bet...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

“Making Peace with Nature is the Defining Task of the 21st century”, UN Secretary-General

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It seems no government is going to take the necessary steps for environmental or climate change. And until they do, private individuals wil...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

About our children.

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  Inside the fog of adult worries, her terrors hulk; fears beyond comprehension remain unspoken, she lacks the words; her child’s face...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Under the Stairs

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  That blackness, beyond the storage boxes, tins of polish, hoover and copper kettle was, in the beginning, a solid-looking barrier; I h...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Irreversible Nature

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  We walk among ghosts, they are our ether. Switched to electronics, we no longer feel their breaths. Though Earth’s warnings crack...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

coming into ourseves

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  slowly our lives become our own; as streams, eddies and runs settle into their channels, we find our ways
Thursday, September 1, 2022

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  My eyes without the glasses make trping doffichlt; memotu becmes sp much more ompirtant wirh age
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

A snowfall in Harold’s Cross Park in May

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  I stop to gaze upwards into the falling petals, filling my eyes with their gentle movement, ears with the silence that descends with sn...
Monday, August 29, 2022

In my head

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 you and I a billion times the starburst of our lives brighter a trillion times multiplied the lips fingers and dangled ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Details of Poetry and Flash Fiction Competition

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  The Allingham Festival is an annual festival in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal. This year it takes place from Nov 2nd to Nov 6th. The competitio...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Schools would be more useful if they supported students' passions

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  His mind sparks explosions in four cylinders, maybe six, pistons rise and fall, connecting rods turn the crankshaft, clutch flywheel ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Now

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  1. Juggling splintered sunlight      head lost in that globe 2. Walking on a sea of fallen leaves      kicking up happy days 3....
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Survision 11 now online + James Tate Prize

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Issue 11 featuring 32 poets at  http://survisionmagazine.com/currentissue.htm    and submissions for the James Tate Prize for a poetry chapb...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

In her Distance (revised)

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  I look at her, childlike in her distance; a curl dreaming. Recognize her solitariness; the dream a wall around her; a cold  re...