Love is a time I left behind But cherish every day It’s unicorns and magick wands And the sound of falling rain It’s a Token song from years long gone Grilled cheese at 3am It’s stickers from the Dollar Tree And laughing in the bed…

Atop the hill he stood, steadfast, immovable revered by the castle and the land beneath its spires Bards spun tales of his skill, his grace, and the wounds that would lead him to his cave He peers out from within the rock face, motion slowed…

An elk is the loudest of all deer, Glass lightbulbs contain gas and are fragile. Buckets are biblically old in design and sometimes leaky, Carports offer protection from the weather. Elbows facilitate surreptitious nudging. All carry characteristics of grannies.     Author: ©️Jane Eckford 2nd…

Letters have power. Did you know? Just by changing a letter or two, you can change the world. Change “beet” to “beef” and you change a vegetable into a meat. Change “jacket” to “jackel” and you change something that can protect you into something that…

It’s hour nine and this prompt just sucks 5 words out of ten? But all ten words are made of meh So I guess I’ll go my way again I’ll ramble about nothing Until a poem just appears At least I’ll make the deadline Before…

“Opening Closing” “Opening Closing”  “Opening Closing” Playing hide and seek with the cookie that rests in an airtight jar. Don’t you feel suffocated?  Let me give you a home in my tummy, but then would you also betray me like my mother? I cannot fit…

On a monsoon’s sunday morning I woke up realising I have got laundry to do.   Piled up clothes, sitting on a chair, depressed? As if they’re mocking me, with a shirt’s sleeve crumpled hiding the buttons.   Exact the way I hide my conscience,…

I sit with legs spread wide a piece of chicken in one hand a spoon to shove rice and stew into my mouth in the other   All the Christmases in my lifetime none comes close to the ones spent with grandma in the ancient…

I don’t have any specific memories from when I was a child in Hong Kong, just scraps of phrases and old photographs. Scents and flavours, like the chocolate candy filled with strawberry bubbles. I do remember when I ate it for the first time, again….

lentils and rice Slow-cooked Yellow from turmeric Fragrant with spices Hot, steaming Delicious Dip into memory and take a large helping of khichadi