Tag: Theme: Poets & Poetry
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New Works, Releases, & the Flamingos Coffee House Event

Hello hello! In order below, we’ve got an announcement for a new publication from A Coup of Owls; a charity drive for the Black Trans Travel Fund; Monstrous May and a new work published; some chatter about TV and film this week; and finally, a write-up of the Flamingos Open Mic earlier this week and…
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Close Your Mouth & To The Blind Man

Two poems. Close Your Mouth (for G.) Close your mouth.Your teeth are showing, sharp as moonlight,And you will cut yourself on them. Close your mouth.Once again, the bar is closing,The lights turning off one by one,The coins rattling in their tray as Holly tocks them up.Your lips are parted as you finish up your drink and…
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The Ballad of Lacie O’Malley

On the subject of spiders and sexual pleasure. © Johannes Evans 2019 This poem is very silly, but just a warning for sexual content and arachnophobia. Originally written 2017. Here I’ll tell you the tale of a woman named Lacie, Though now I shall warn you: the tale will be racy, Abandon hope, all ye who enter here, And…
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The Tunnel

Written 29/09/2017. Photo credit Lee McGrath. In the Tintern valley,cut into the very side of thoserolling hills,there is a dark hole.Neatly bordered on its rounded edgeswith weathered grey bricks,the arch beckons,as if begging one to walk within. I stand on the half-rememberedghost of a railway track,my feet upon its broad plank,and I stare.The sun beams greyly…
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Garlic

Written 28/09/2017. Go to the woods in late spring.Follow your noseand stand admist that great, green carpet.Take into your lungsand nose and mouththat cloud of cleansing comfort. Feel the garlic hazeso strong it might well sting your eyesand smilebecause it means you are alive. (Pick a half a dozen leaves.Take them home.Eat what is offered…
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The Boat

Written 28/09/2017. If you walk past the bandstand,with its too-white paintand curling iron detail,an island on a manicured lawn,you might take the riverside path. Past the old inn,the pubs, the tapas bar,and the overfull car parkin miniature. It drops down to the very edgeof the water,lapping at the path’s sideat high tideand leaving the trodden…