Little Town Poetry: The School is the town is the school, made in Chess pieces.

The School is the town is the school, made in Chess pieces.   The school is the town is the school  made in Chess-pieces: Knights,  Kings, Bishops prop-up railings,  columns, arches/ sleep [...]

Uppingham Methodist Church.   Four foot next to the font  wearing a tall chef’s hat  puffy on top I played ‘The Baker’ in our Nativity envying angels – their wings, their glitter I was no [...]

Tamsin Flower, 18 Jan 2021. For most of us, ‘Hubris’ is a dusty concept kept in a drawer marked ‘Useless Stuff from School.’ Far from being irrelevant to modern times, hubris lives in our [...]

7+ Spelling Hacks – jpeg to grab & downloadable PDF: Downloadable pdfs: 7-spelling-1 7-spelling-prefixes1

Dear Elysia,   One day the Old World got sick. Spasms, coughs jerked into space from each continent – ugly, inconceivable rockets. Every land-mass had something similar but different [...]

2016 was a Bitch   2016 was a bitch you said. I’ll say that…   many heavyweight stars died  and observatories harvested full-moons like fruit slung from low branches.   [...]

Paradise Lovers   Paradise Male bops feathers to bull-frog chirp and monkey-caw this evening the forest feels electric  Female will scale his dance-floor   Paradise male slicked-back, [...]

The Charioteer –  in honour of Captain Tom & the Rider-Waite tarot imagery.   He knows focus  is a game of pretend is a painter’s trick suitable for all eyes   anyone can [...]

The Artist – inspired by the story of Hassan Akkad   The Artist sits cross-legged lone in his bedroom fortress avoiding ankles of uncles jibes from aunties’ moustaches.   [...]

Lives of F, Synchronised Swimming, Ed 1. (poem 1) It is an old-fashioned August that melts. The world still turns predictably, slow and smart, public services go to work. Two well intentioned [...]