By Carmella de Keyser I’m sitting in J3, in between J2 and J4. Popcorn lines the aisle, spiky stones across the sea floor. I’m stuck,...

By Athena Marie Looking into his striking green eyes, desperation looking back. His eyes lifeless. Pleading for approval. A smile,...

By Inara Love Elliott From the cradle to the grave, we cry. We shed tears of love and pain and anger and joy. We cry. From our first...

By Rory Osborne Look on my countless riches, My mountains of gravel, and dust. Gaze on my sprawling kingdom, My cities of dirt, and rust....

By Thomas Collins If all the earth should turn to dust, the oceans hardened clay, the sky as dark as clouded dusk come middle of the day,...

By Ailish NicPhaidin Pharaoh Thutmose III Built his famous obelisks So immortality and eternity Would meld together As an unassailable...

By Erebus I look up the stairs and I remember that face. That smiling face ever so friendly. I was alone, I wanted to play. I climbed up...

By Alberto Arecchi It rains. It rains on the parched desert as in my haywire heart.   Bitter rain, load of salt: salt tears of peoples...

By Isabel del Rio Once your heart stops beating, the blood collects in those parts of the body closest to the ground and which, for now,...

By SJWildling Magnetised Pulled / like the moon controls the ocean's tide, Waves, from rising Eddies and swirls /the Crashing...

By Oscar Nicholson Put me on a pedestal, I want bliss Write me blood-strewn letters And wrap me up with memories Of lovers you miss Box...

By Jean Tuomey I will always remember the village whose name I forget, nestled high in the Troodos mountains. Tourists,    without a map...

By Kay Loveday I met you in my dreams last night As I waited at the theatre door You wrapped me in a warm embrace  That left me wanting...

By Abigail Ottley There you are, my lady in white, drifting ghost-like through my lamp-lit bedroom. Your hair hangs loose, the colour of...

By Catherine Davies Small state, skeleton state, flesh slashed from limbs, the ligaments and tendons starved to the bones, the debt...

By Murray Eiland Butterflies float, silent specters in the air, hovering over withering flowers, their wings darkening in the thin spring...

By John Ganshaw It’s so apparent to the naked eye that bears witness  to the injustice that thrives around us, every minute of every day....

By Jase Delaney I don’t know what the time is, in fact I just don’t care I’m sitting by the river, with more pain than I can bear   I’ve...

By Karyn Little I chose to ignore the droplets of red as they left a trail with every step you took away from me.   It was only when I...

By Darren Lynch Unfurled by the smooth concrete dawn ….   Skin of tethered squares   Petals of horse gripped cloaks Highways of desert...