Dear Mum and Dad You Broke My Trust

Poetry prompt day 27

The Compass

Every morning starts the same way. Every day unfolds pretty much the same way if I’m honest. The shrill beeping of the alarm yanks me out…

Poetry | Writer’s Block | Creativity

Words Look After Themselves

A prosamy — thanks to…

The Privilege of Choice

And for those who have none

Arts & Entertainment + Poetry

On the Value of Waiting

In haiku

Summer’s End

A sonnet written on a grey day at the end of the summer holidays

POETRY

The Fuck-Up Whisperer

A lumpy woman on a bike
Slows and loses balance on a sharp turn
On the sidewalk

Sharp Teeth Sharp Smiles

Moving places was a difficult business — you always felt you have left…

Never Mind a Eulogy

Making this life to be lived

Waning Summer Days

Mindful poetry

Water Daughter Rock

A poem for the love of the ocean

Stay with Me

Life of Darnell Miller

Do Ordinary Single Moms have Secrets? #11

This one does

The Story of a Tame Cancer Cell

Engulfing the horizon a cancer is shown.
With any Critic, the shareholders groan.
For it is declared…

Nature’s Diamonds

A frill of dewdrops,
Making lace on each leaf edge.
Nature’s diamonds.

Duet

Free verse

what seemed like silk was not silk

Poor Man’s Spirit Thanked Death

We never know what we will see in the world till we do

Slap’n’Sawdust For The Flatties

I turn quickly — a pirouette, almost — and back-pedal to look at the notice once again. Bright, primary…

Desires Robbed My Life and Gave Me Lines

We keep aspiring for what we do not have but in the end the…

It Started With the Whispers

A noblewoman fallen from grace