Poetry
Coronavirus Care Home
Deborah Shaw Oh look! That’s me in the picture! Always wanted to have my photo in the paper That’s me Just sitting Peacefully Passively Waiting for death Oh look! That’s me in the picture [… read more ]
Poetry
Culture
Tongues & Grooves Portsmouth #WritingChallenge4
Maggie Sawkins, who leads local poetry and creative group Tongues & Grooves has unleashed a local #writingchallenge and they kindly let us publish the responses. This week’s challenge was – in Paul Klee’s words – to [… read more ]
Poetry
The Fascination of Trees
Irene Strange. The Life in trees live on for ever Their gallant Spirit leaves them, never. In the trunk and boughs and roots Its inner Spirit endlessly shoots. Plundered and burned into the [… read more ]
Poetry
Heroism
By Philip Jeremy Wilson It comes in many a form There is no norm Mine is when someone gives their life for another Others smother Praise on FA Cup Final day And say That [… read more ]
Fiction
Tongues & Grooves Portsmouth #WritingChallenge3
Maggie Sawkins, who leads local poetry and creative group Tongues & Grooves has unleashed a local #writingchallenge and they kindly let us publish the responses. This week’s challenge is to write a poem of 14 lines in which [… read more ]
Fiction
Tongues & Grooves Portsmouth #WritingChallenge2
Maggie Sawkins, who leads local poetry and creative group Tongues & Grooves has unleashed a local #writingchallenge and they kindly let us publish the responses. This week’s challenge is to write a Cinquain, a syllabic form invented [… read more ]
Fiction
Tongues & Grooves Portsmouth #WritingChallenge1
Last week, Maggie Sawkins, who leads local poetry and creative group Tongues & Grooves unleashed a local #writingchallenge and they kindly let us publish the responses. Make sure you get involved and give Tongues and Grooves [… read more ]
Poetry
The Plane Tree
By Patricia J. Arnold. There you stand majestic tree Branches spread high over me I wonder how long you have stood in this place And what are your thoughts of the human race. [… read more ]
Poetry
The Weeping Ash Tree
I love trees and tree hugging can be reassuring and spiritually uplifting. Trees matter to all of us, especially to we who live in cities, because they absorb atmospheric pollutants thus purifying the air we [… read more ]
Poetry
ONE AND THE SAME
By Philip Wilson Insecurity Maturity Are one and the same They play the same game Insecurity gives you the belief everyone is against you True But also weirdly the strength to find an answer To [… read more ]