We hope you enjoy this week’s snippets. We only have one more week to go and after that we will be blogging the full text of the winning entries.
the gaping
mouths of cichlids await
their hungry move
LAKE TANGANIYKA by Lauren Pope
busy time
sorting-chucking-packing time
FLITTING TIME by Ingrid Lees
hands thinner than Siberian air,
THE LAST ROVER by Joan Lennon
So come on with me, hands clasped in the other
Let us seek out the jewels and polish together
THE FERRYMAN by Una Sillars
And even after
several Stolichnayas laced raspberry pink
AND AFTER by Ruth Johnston
I find myself as a shadow
in the old upstairs cafe
making a scone of us.
AFTERNOON TEA FOR ONE by El Gruer
Your Dad`s been to the Bookie`s.
The money is all spent.
A MOVING STORY by Anne Milne
Enjoy the concert and it’s free,
As swans walked on ice
AS SWANS WALKED ON ICE by Ann Marie O’Hare
The earth moves on to reach the moon,
The moon to move the tides.
MOVING ON by Kriss Macca
We are commodities, oddities, where do we belong?
POOR WOMAN’S SWAG by Margaret McGrath
You’ve turned doin’
absolutely nothin’
into an art form.
NOT MOVING by Mary Nixon
If I’m being honest, I’ve let myself go.
BENEATH THE ELYSIAN FIELDS by Lauren Pope
