A TRIO OF POEMS FOR YEMEN
The war in Yemen has created the world's worst humanitarian disaster. Since it started six years ago: 233000 people have died 19.7...
FIRST SIGHTING
Image by Dimitris Vetsikas on Pixabay “… long as a lying whale…” “… a canoe without paddles…” “… ten - twelve - enormous wings … piled on...
Liberty Line
Crocodile caravan coming our way Barred before Harried behind. Stumbling, tumbling Plunging, floating, sinking Stinking boats, stalled...
LOVE BOMB
Watercolour, The Pram, courtesy of Avril Paton I watch the family push a pram Down where the sandy shore meets sea, Letting wee waves lap...
PHOENIX
LEELA SOMA Mangled , strangled, blood, ink blood red, ink black colours dripping on asphalt tracing strange patterns blood red, ink black...
In the Displacement Camp
In the Displacement Camp You sit there and look at me. In that look is all of life, pared down to the eyes of one woman who sits on the...
LONDRES 38
I did not enter cuffed blindfolded eyes taped under sunglasses I did not wear the clothes stripped from corpses rank with electric sweat...
Both Sides Now
If Abe Lincoln came back to life he'd lose. The American people I have made great again are fed up of this down home Honky Tonk crew...
To Settle
To Settle He’s young A boy, really Sweat makes the fabric cling To muscles It could be that his torso is strapped With explosives Or that...
THE PRICE OF SALT
NIMISHA MENON Empty cartridges lay strewn across the bloodied garden. 1650 bullets were spent on 1516 unarmed civilians. It didn’t take...
