Read

Ode on a Snow Leopard as the sun goes down

Wearing your jacket, white, pure, white as white, as white can be. As pure and cool as white can be. Unseen by man, a wild thing, unhunted...
1 likes

Load Shedding

Core Electricity Load Shedding in South Africa We were totally unprepared when it first started in 2008 as spontaneous and random blackouts which...
Cherry

Waiting for the Flyers. Pt 12 Rifts

Problems on the horizon (picking up after a bit of a break)
Gold cherry

The Reason Why I Like Cooking for You

I won't need much in the afterlife.
1 likes

Many shaky answers

I don’t like to admit it, but I’m lost. In my far too old, far too polluted, far too noisy Jeep, I am grunting through this barren, empty hilly...
1 likes

Letter to a Black Panther

You green-eyed monster you. I love ya. Yeah man. Sleek and black in your prowling skin of rich, soft lustre. Your frown hidden, your claws, hidden,...

1:4:1 Cambridge (Part 4)

They stood by the door, fabricated basket in hand, waiting for Char and the siblings to finish getting ready. Char joined them with her own basket...
Gold cherry

Ocean Drive (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 19)

In which Archibald and Chantelle take to the road, D.I. Wood does likewise, but somewhat removed, and Lawrence doesn't take to it at all!
1 likes
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

inklings

commas wait for speech, in thickening stillness wriggle, as possibilities shrink to silt in sun's incomprehension for small ink black slinkings...
1 likes

Give Nero a chance

Is emperor Nero really that bad ? I mean he was a bit of a pyro maniac but on the other hand look what he’s done with the arts. Christian’s preaching...
1 likes
Gold cherry

For The Birds

Word has come upon wings for all comers to the garden, the lady has left such pretty stuff for the making of their nests. Her tresses left by wayside...
Gold cherry

On the 6500+ km journey, twice

I’m a tiny round egg in the Sargasso sea, and hatch to be leaf-like, on currents I float eastward to a continent very remote, many get eaten, but for...

Words what Mussolini not never said to the massed congregations

Citizens of Rome I salute thee Citizens of Rome can I borrow your comb? Citizens of Rome I salute thee Citizens of Rome can I borrow your comb?
Cherry

African Praise Poem for Dad

African Praise Poem for my Dad Charles Beverly Balfour Browne, the man with a camera, And a smile that never-ended; With his twinkling, royal blue...
1 likes
Cherry

Give Me the Moonlight

At large in Amsterdam. - 500 words - Image from Pixabay
1 likes

New Stuff

Well, sort of new anyway. Many people believe that 'new' is just a different sort of sauce on top of the same old tasteless meal. That is, our basic...

Alf

There’s a tiny spider Crawling across this verse I think its critiquing my work I have named the spider Alf He appears to dislike words Bigger than...

In The Echoes Of Times Long Gone

In The Echoes Of Times Long Gone By Paul McCann Looking around Belfast City with thoughts of the beauty that I had once found Knowing well the...

But there's always more

While I was crying silently in bed for 3 days my husband was reading and researching and taking care of the kids, the house, everything. I just...

Pages