Homesick – Free Write Friday
Image prompt courtesy of http://www.kellieelmore.com It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist Eternally tethered to a time, a sense you can’t put your finger on […]
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We Are Poets – NEWSFLASH!
Award winning We Are Poets are offering you the opportunity to arrange your own screening of their fantastic work at your local festival, arts venue, community group, film club, university […]
THE LINES BETWEEN
Snap! The tension vibrates from here to there Lines traced as they slip between finger and thumb A tight pinch and a gentle squeeze before the breeze catches the nape […]
I ASK MYSELF
Why do I do this? The habit of self flagellation unbearable yet I find my place here time and again pick… pick… pick… ouch. Why do I do this? Thrown […]
Lost in coffee
Finding my place was so much more than searching for an empty table Two chairs when I really wanted there to be only one, solitary me Chatter ahead and lurking […]
Flashbacks
Lights on. There were flashbulbs for parties Glistening cubes of silver and plastic pop Instamatic moments that seal in the magic Lights off. There were whispers, always whispers of something […]
Exhale
Exhale. That’s it. The break. It’s no longer about them. Or at least not them versus me. Because after me, it will roll on. Regardless. Why wouldn’t it? Who am […]
Shine
‘If it isn’t fun, it isn’t worth doing.’ Eight words. Eight words is all it took to tell me everything I needed to hear. Like the flick of a rubber […]
No vacancies
For the longest time, the side of your face was all you could lend ‘no vacancies’ the sign that hung at the windows in your eyes and yet you weren’t […]
Kindness takes a minute
Image source http://www.pinterest.com It’s the work of one minute to say ‘how are you?’ instead of ‘who do you think you are?’ or ‘let me tell you more about […]
