When I was small I had red boots How I adored them, I marked each shoe ‘L’ and ‘R’, lest I wore them wrong Lest someone saw and laughed, Lest I ceased to belong. I would dance on demand, I’d pirouette For a clap of hands, a compliment Till my father saw me in those…
Tag: poems
If a song…
If a song could tell a story what a tale it would tell… Of sweaty nights and wild exploits spouting from a bottle made in Hell. Of the lush kisses when it found a voice Pouting lips that caressed it as it fell. Of lonely nights clutching at mottled sheets Faces streaming with tears that…
H: hallux #AtoZChallenge
hallux: big toe. Plural: Halluces You stopped. Pausing in our conversation, your hallux drew a line in the sand and urged me on ahead: “It’s not the end of the world,” you said. Our short walk together was over, I was to carry on as before. And when I looked back, the line had…
Book Review: The Traveller Series
Tiffany Teoh’s book, “The Traveller Series… in forty-one poems”, is, in many ways, a traveller’s diary in verse. No, it does not give you specific dates or locations, but it is filled with beautiful images of nature and lines that are thought provoking. Many a time as I read this collection of poems, I found…
Poetry without borders
I’m delighted to announce that one of my poems is in this book, Poetry Without Borders published by @ATLA It’s available at http://https://www.amazon.co.uk/Poetry-Without-Borders-Anna-Trowbridge/dp/1533469148/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464376333&sr=1-4&keywords=anna+trowbridge Now for those of you outside India you have no excuses for not getting it. And for those in India I can cut you a little slack…shall add the Amazon India link…
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