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Thank you to all who took part in my Citizens' Assembly via earthweal this week. I have submitted our feedback, stories and suggestions to the organisers, meaning they should feature in the first official Global Assembly 2021 report! I really appreciate the care, effort and consideration which participants gave to this challenge. Below you will... Continue Reading →
Such flameworksuch firesuch fury The once-firm rubber tireburst and meltedinto a trailof liquid white Such transformation by violence ‘All knowledge or devicethat Man has reached or wrought’*perhaps amounts to nought So in the end, there is simply this:crazed tangle of rusted metalcrushed skeletons of chairscharred interiorchassis ribboned in cordon Ineffectual soothed only by nature’s gunmetal grey sky © 2022 experimentsinfiction.com. All... Continue Reading →
I now sleep on the same bed where my father used to sleep,it feels cosy at night but in the morning I weep,he snored with no rhythm,he snored so loud and it told no tale, neither did it make me want to sleep,it’s a hole so deep,sometimes I drown in my own sweat,sometimes it’s so... Continue Reading →
When the carriage rolls bumpily over the bridge across the Tyne, and you hold me steady so that I feel none of the impactmy heartsafe within its carriage knowsyou are the one When the rain rattles the skylight windowpanesand pelts the Metro as wegreet the sea againsheltered in one another’s armswheels trundling sing the lullaby of You... Continue Reading →
He writes for melove letters in the dustor on the empty sands at sunsetlets the sea erase them... Please continue reading at MasticadoresUSA! 'He writes for me' is my latest poem to be featured on this wonderful site, edited by Gabriela Marie Milton. Please follow the site and read some of the other poems you... Continue Reading →
Finger the keys, unlock the light withinfrom simple black and white, chromatic dreams come tumbling, cascade, begin again From sharp to flat to natural, unseenthe light that's sealed between the boundless seamsfinger the keys, unlock the light within On thinking of the dreams that might have beenand those now granted us, forever dreamscome tumbling, cascade, begin... Continue Reading →
“Come forth into the light of thingsLet Nature be your teacher” - Wordsworth, 'The Tables Turned' I’ve taken time out from the online worldstepped into otherworldsexplored liminal spaceswith you Everything is shiningeach and every dayaround each and every one of uswe’re blinded by the things we feel we ought to do: Step outside on a... Continue Reading →
I see green in the early Springtime sunshine: golden greenthe sky is whispering the trees awakeout of Winter slumberstirrings to life are all around and in my hearta hidden world of wonderbetween, beneath below and undereverything a current of pure loveburstingout of every branch and bough alivealightawakening with sacred wordsto welcome in the Spring © 2022 experimentsinfiction.com. All Rights Reserved. Written for... Continue Reading →
I just wanted to share the exciting news that the first Free Verse Revolution print anthology, Hebe to Hades, is available to buy now! My sonnet, 'Persephone' is included, and I am joined by many other talented writers including Gabriela Marie Milton, Jaya Avendel and Kristiana Reed, who is FVR's editor, and made the publication... Continue Reading →
Time telescopes at the bend in the riverthirty years agoif a dayyesterday forever:an up-the-river ramble and a sausage sizzlecooking marshmallows by the firethe coppiced trees aren’t tallerbut I swear the island of stones has grownalluvial deposits from the last Ice Age if you think of it12,000 years to tumble down to here.We say we grow old... Continue Reading →
