Dragon’s Pen Snippets for this Week

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We emerged from our prison like hostel with its  high steel bunk beds and stained hairy blankets.

SKELLIG MICHAEL by Maria Doyle

 the little one swung her skirt

to her own internal melody.

LOST IN TRANSLATION by Lesley McKay

 

When I finally went home, after it ended, the shoes had vanished, along with him and half the contents of the flat

THE PURPLE SHOES by Diana Morton

 

But if you have no mistakes then you must be in a mess

MOVING by May Al-Husseiny

 

He settled in slowly, but never quite managed to close the gap filled with bird-cries and wave-roar between him and the rest of the world.

AN ODYSSEUS by Anniken Blomberg

 

They will greet me

In a sea of golden rays – to lift my spirit.

YELLOW IS THE COLOUR OF MY LOVE by Ellen McMillan

 

It was to be a long journey, with two cats, two children and a suitcase full of shoes.

LEAVING by Teresa Dolan

 

get hot blood movin through veins;

break the chains of domesticity.

WINDOW SHOPPING by Donna Campbell

 

“Pardon me for walking aboot my ain hoose.” He pointed at the suitcase. “Are we going on holiday?”

PACKING UP by Ann Stewart

 

I keep the explosion in my mouth at bay,

CHRISTMAS 1995 by N Dosanjh