Poetry Prompt Eight: We Need

We need more time, we need to feel fine, we need more police and less crime, we need to at least feel safe, we need bravery, not slavery, or more reserves for The Army or The Navy. We need clean water, we need to protect…

City

Imagine the city with its throngs of people, crowds melting into each other, voices blending together – and amidst all, there’s you – a lonely voice – unheard, a lost face in this crowded space.

what did i miss on the mess

mind typing whatever comes in the making knowing everything you and me in the word without borders yehey! this coffee makes me awake i am a number one nocturnal queen talking to my merciless keyboard while i hear the morning alarms of roosters in the…

prompt 8

We Need. We need to bring about a new age Of peace, and bounty bars, With lashings of honey, And rivers of money, Said the scarecrow man, holding the placard, Earnestly shoving his face into mine. Don’t you agree? He said.   I don’t like…

Hour 8: We Need.

‘We need to be here’, said my ex-husband’s new wife. ‘Can we come in? It’s been a long drive.’ He mentions the house, a quarter his, looks nice. “The kids put the lights up”, I try to surmise. “Your mother around?” She’s in Greece, I…

Crystal Part 1

I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror Shadows cast dark circles under my sunken eyes that have been open for far too long The soothing sound of Thom Yorke “I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you”…

Poetry Prompt Seven: Lasting Visual Images

Thinking back but looking forward. Getting excited for the unknown future whilst also emoting nostalgia for the known, uncomfortably known past. Missing the heat waves of pollution dancing across the suspicious eyes of the city, dark critiquing stares at our fair skin and white collar…