Here are some more snippets from the entries to our Dragon’s Pen Competition.
Gone to Aberdeen for two days. Why I am there is for you to guess and me to know. Cooker and electric fires won’t work. I’ve removed the fuses. Get them fixed and I‘ll kill you.
from MOVING ON by Eleanor Hayward
We have been apart longer than we were together,
But we remain entwined in shared history, a shared life.
from MOVING SWIFTLY ON by Frankie Valente
We had secret smiles, precious memories; we were each other’s story keepers, we held each other’s youth.
from SO PERFECT, SO BEAUTIFUL, SO STILL by Hannah Lavery
Becoming possible you feel and taste
the salt of my tears of liberation.
from LIBERATION by Maria de Santos
The butterflies in my stomach felt like they were doing a tango wi the elephants on ma dress.
from ON OOR WAY – by Lesley O’Brien
Don’t let the mist’s damp fingers curl the pages of your book
from LINLITHGOW by Ingrid Murray
She knew the walls had ears, but they couldn’t keep her under supervision twenty/four seven and she never screamed.
from JESSIE’S ART by Ellen McMillan
I have
a foot on two banks, a gap in the middle,
a borrowed home, a sheared-off past.
from UNWANTED IMMIGRANT – EARLY YEARS by Vivien Jones
I’ll be your partner in this one person dance.
from MOVING by Jen Martin
to think
to dream
to be
from MOVING ON by Anne Dunford
