We hope you’ve enjoyed reading all the snippets from the Dragon’s Pen entries. Next week, we will have the winning short story and the winning poem in full and, after that, you will be able to download podcasts of the authors reading their winning entries. The exhibition of all the entries we received is still available to view at GWL, so do come along and enjoy a cup of tea and a good read.
A cosmopolitan city, aping continental neighbours
Bringing the outside in
GLASGOW ALFRESCO by Una Sillars
the way the lighthouse blinked in the night,
led you to a girl and a sorceress.
SUFFOLK by Ruth Johnston
Stand your ground, wait it out,
Wave your hand, scream and shout.
HALTED by Ann Marie O’Hare
I step into the mystic
Look around for the familiar
TICKING CLOCKS by Cassie Kennedy
we’re travelling along this branch
askew
AESOP’S LIZARD by Joan Lennon
yet the earth gifts me pleasures
tae remind me
eh ma insignificance.
THE JOURNEY by Karen Thomson
Movement
in
that
mysterious
there
is stillness
BITS OF PHILOSOPHY by Ann Harvie
my skirts respectful like a teacher’s
LONDON TRANSPORT CATERING QUEEN 1973 by Liz Bassett
Inside I smear
optimistic shades
onto all the walls
MOODS by Kay Ritchie
I try to recall the places where I used to live:
like snapshots seen in someone else’s book,
BLACK DOG by Sarah McIntosh Howells
Free of sleep I’m free to dream,
my head so Vogue it sails
Venetian canals without me.
COSTA GLASGOW by Irene Cunningham
Summer sun
It sets and rises
I’ve had my night
I’ll have my day.
NOTHING BUT A MEMORY by Amna Ali
