Sweetness By Fiona Goodwin

It’s a parcel on my doorstep from you who has never met me, It’s a Facebook photo of brave women laughing and loving No longer virtual, It’s Pasquale my neighbour by my car asking “Please can I help, that looks heavy.” It’s the Italian and the Qatari Jumping for their lives, And with one will…

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A New Rhythm By Kristi Kirby

Kicking up stones and Plumes of dust clouds Along another dirt trail Feeling warm winds upon my Face This isn’t a race Gaining the beauty of grace Heart gets heavy Body layered in mud Silent and starving for Affection Strokes of light Flow from my spirit Pointing me to another Pure direction A praise Changes…

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STORM & THUNDER by Annsofi Hjärtström

Listening to the Storm & Thunder outside Thinking of the Storm & Thunder I carry within The life long one The one that has scared me Hurt me Suppressed me Silenced me Controlled me The Storm & Thunder I never thougt would end But I start to see it can With new skills learned And…

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How to make your life sweeter By Fiona Goodwin

I want to make my life much sweeter It doesn’t come naturally to me I think that’s what grandmothers are for They’ve given up perhaps the pushing in the driving the striving My grandmother taught me how to get into the movies without paying She taught me that The experience is mproved with a treacle…

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Goodbye Dad by Caroline Jamieson

We nursed him to his passing. Listened as his frail body Inhaled Exhaled Hand on thumping heart Then it stopped Gone Just like that My Dad Now a corpse I grew up with such need for my dad Wanting him to be what i needed He couldnt A farm boy Dealt with us as he…

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Uncharted territory By Fiona Goodwin

Uncharted territory Is when I try out A new version of me Carefree, unfettered by any view you may have of me I knew I wasn’t right when I was young I knew there was something wrong Not just that I wasn’t good enough But that happiness was not on the cards for me There…

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SEARCHING by Laura Merrit

Seven or eight years old. Getting saved at the Baptist Summer Revival. Bow you head now and recite this prayer. Not sure I believe I feel this is a lie. If Jesus is real he will know my mind. And surely the uncertainty he will find. The worst ever lie in my heart My fraud…

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Untitled By Kristi Kirby

Stars above A distance of light Heart beating Through the hurt Given a compass and A map Studying this new pattern Uncharted and unknown Things that can be seen Personal freedom New skin Roaming electricity The science to great Happiness Follow the sunlight that Dances in your Eyes Mind is elevated up World gets smaller…

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Space by Fiona Goodwin

There is space between each day It’s called nighttime There is space between each love It’s Called recovery There is space between each thought It’s called a daydream There is space around the Earth It’s called space and I think it goes on forever. Take your place In the space that you are meant to…

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