Category: Poetry
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The Indigo Man
Beware the Indigo Man! Phantom of the Coatepeque! Whose face ripples like jaded algae Folds like lake-foam – Is fermented under sodden banana leaves. Be fearful of the Indigo Man! Who salivates beneath canoes, Sneering at plump fishermen With iron hooks And iron souls Whose bile reeks of ichor Gory as corn pudding. Do not […]
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The Garbage Man
Daniel’s Garbage Man dives into feeling like garbage in the lonely hours of the night. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Nietzsche’s concept of ‘last men’, Daniel also looks at the apathy that we can unwittingly slip into when we feel small and thrown around by life.
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For him in the past and the future
Poems about preconceived realities, those that haunt my thoughts through my eyes centre and my hearts focus.
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Everything’s Symbolic
Poems about preconceived realities, those that haunt my thoughts through my eyes centre and my hearts focus.
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Lilly
by Phoebe Au Soft, frail and pretty, she lies there, wilting behind my father’s window. She was in bloom once, plucked from a lush green meadow, severed from her roots. Leaves, like green wings, clipped. Her cries, hastily stifled. Stems, violently snapped. Unable to speak. A windowsill ornament, unable to scream. Left to watch the […]
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Brink and Scrawl
by Liana Charles Brink Life, stretching its wingsin two sunbound arcs from the heart,cuts loose the clear breezewhich whips and whirls the world to singone high note: a dartto crack the crust of childhood’s freeze.Breathe in, and step out,for down below the soft world wakes.Each fresh fingertipyearns to trace the dawn’s joyous shout;Each feathered heart […]