SYLVIE MARIE find me Poetry turns paper back into trees – Marie Lundquist find me i’m standing among the others feet planted in a corner knees together my woody trunk rising through my resin pelvis my backbone a stem for…
Find me, I’m a tree
Poetry
Poetry on Prescription
SILVIA PIO (edited by) There was an old woman called Deb who had a crazy idea in her head to hear people’s ills without giving pills but give them poems instead Deborah Alma travels around British fairs and festivals in…
My heart is old this evening, two poems by Carla Buranello
CARLA BURANELLO SLAPSTICK TWIST My heart is old this evening, an old heart wearing a wig of words, absurd dentures of metaphors, his lips tinged with borrowed blood, he fakes a fervour he doesn’t feel. He twirls, winks, somersaults, showing…
A Letter to the World
A group of poets have written a message to the powerful of the Earth: give our planet back a future and hope to the generations to come. We will continue to ask institutions all over the world to start a…
Walk with the Mahatma
SILVIA PIO (edited by) “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.” —Mohandas…
Colour-Blind Romance and other poems
STEPHEN WILSON Colour-Blind Romance after Lorca’s Romance Sonámbulo How can I love what I cannot see? Green, green, I love you green. Sun on a woodland canopy, how can I see what can’t be seen? Green bird on an olive-branch,…
A Synchronistic Experience with a Blue Butterfly
The book-length sequence of poems entitled The Blue Butterfly was conceived when Richard Berengarten took the photo below on 25 May 1985, outside the Memorial Museum at Šumarice, on the outskirts of the city of Kragujevac in central Serbia. The museum commemorates a…