In practice, are you a proactive nationalist?Are you a happy, patriotic person-Who is bursting with intense emotions of patriotism?Are you a man with socialist ideology?Do you think like a conservative or a democratic man?Alternatively, do you take pride in the … Continue reading
The Disagreeable Ocean Between Us I wonder if my son, when he’s out getting the paper or a cup of coffeeif he stops and talks to squirrels or rabbits or dogslike he did when he was little, like I always … Continue reading
Lora from Prishtina The Goddess descends into memoriesLora took into her armsthe blessed silencean eye she gave to lovea song to the sunto evil she gave the smileher lips enchanted meembracing the dream of the poet… Again with Lora of … Continue reading
In the attic she finds a box.Underneath an epidermis of newsprintlies a blue-and-white china teacup,part of the set used by her grandmaevery week they went to see her. The china, thin and determined,pulls her into a warm roomand seats her … Continue reading
Before True Rest Has Come That early evening, in September 1985, only one person was mad enough to light the lamps, and she was the cruellest. She behaved as a bore and did not like prosody. Call her Jasmine. She … Continue reading
Just visiting Slipping softly through sun-dappled treesswaying grasses in time to summer’s humcasting pollen up like sequinned sparklesstrolling though blossoming fieldsruffling the feather of the nesting birds.Whipping waves into mountains of spraystripping the last leaves from autumn’s dying.Hats are tossed … Continue reading
Poet and travel writer Melissa Davies lives in the North West of England. After embarking on a short career in cancer care, she spent 18 months in 2018 exploring the mountains of Europe and North Africa by bike and on … Continue reading
– Must be. – Seriously, Dad, there’s nothing in there. – Ah, but what about that big rock that just moved? – Whoa! As soon as the colour-crazed Toonal TV logo and its accompanying laugh-track jingle both erupt in sync, … Continue reading
The night is an endless frustrating vast empty well into which I am continually falling but never reaching the bottom, never drawing closer to the malicious water. At 2 am, I wake up, my body electric, my eyes watchful and … Continue reading
A Woman’s Tears A woman’s love is an extraordinary treasure!She will give you love,She will give you loyalty,She will give you, her dreams.She will give you, her future!She will give you eternity! But many a man never knowsthe value of … Continue reading