IN A BOMBED BASEMENT
by David Betteridge with designs by Walter Crane Could you and I with fate conspire remould the scheme of things entire Nearer to the...
LAST NIGHT ANOTHER SOLDIER
EXTRACT FROM THE NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME BY ALY RENWICK Corporal Rennie dealt with another misfit. ‘And why did you leave your village...
A FORMER SOLDIER WRITES - MICHAEL PIKE POEMS
Image by Emmie Norfolk, pixabay MAKING OF A PATRIOT Born free from affiliation To religion, country or team Then conditioned, brainwashed...
BADGE OF IDENTITY
MARIO RELICH My father as a New World immigrant often told me that the worst thing a man can do is to change his religion. Yet he was a...
CULTIVATION
By Simon Berry CULTIVATION Image by Penelope 333, pixabay Zemledeliye it means cultivation or just growing things Zemledeliye it’s...
THE BLIND BOY TEACHER OF YEMEN
MAIRI JACK Image by Warburcu Yildizhan Sager, Pexels Dark deep beneath twisted iron rods and black-burnt concrete rubble the little green...
THE CITIZENS OF NOWHERE
JIM AITKEN ‘…if you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.’ PM Theresa May at Conservative Party Conference,...
WHEESHT by David Betteridge
Image by Bob Starrett Sleeping, and waking, and in the twilight states between, I hear the world’s new Herods incessantly give voice....
MY EYES SPEAK
Anne Dunford Look at me look at my eyes what do you see? I am strong I won’t give up hope all Afghan women must have hope we want our...
THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
KRISS NICHOL “In the hospitality of war we left them their dead to remember us by” – Archilochus your black-booted heart corrupts...
