Lara

What it means to cry, within a screaming gale, no use trying to lie, cold within your bones, you don't need a trial, to find yourself alone, studying a time, when all your efforts fail, your only cut is style, how d0 you cope, love always seem to fail, empty clothes shroud your home, flip a coin see the sky, go and find some sail, head high leave this way, refuse wine from broken cones, abandon desolate mail, throw stones at your ghosts, laughter lights the trail.

Katy

In the spring light, I open the door, look for the other side, it's cold for the season, sons and daughters, look to their freedom, out on the Neap tide, it’s illusory of course, they ask me why, I’ve brought them to see, sunshine over the port, where we used to live, without a dime, as if we’d been caught, in some policy drive, they believe, i’m joking that’s all, just a conspiracy, but each walk of life, ends overwrought, maybe only strife, tells us the score.

Jane

On these long flights, side by side for harmony, we act like cool socialites, why take a train, or a boat on the sea, this way there's no strain, Oh we're so right, who needs reason, bags melt into the night, it's fun being away, don't ever concretely, inquire about pain, our long silent fight, when morning stands scrutiny, casts a cold cabin light, this horizon so bright, claims a sun all seeing, brings hopes of eternity, why? .

Irene

Each year makes me a liar, will anyone see, the roots between my hair, sometimes just a little shove, makes the heavens scream, even if its hard to hum, terribly hard chairs, won’t make it seem, you accommodate me there, I dress with a shrug, what about my teeth, left shining on the rug, act like I don't care, scrubbed sparkling clean, I sail through the air, open like a new bud, Spring rescues everything, every night a tidal flood, it's only fair, when evening turns green, love happens when you dare, age is just a dream.

Harriet

When you start to say, I like to dance alone, please give me a break, sit here by the fire, don't go wittering on, you’re not a player, not a second to waste, it's lonely on stones, marry me at once, we’ll listen to the wire, the bed’s long gone, to calm all desires, grant me this day, not long silent groans, followed by hoorays, we are not Sapphires, who ever atone, drawn to the pyre, we're coming home.

Gracie

Who will break the news, struggling to escape, life without a curfew, no horizon's bright, if you have to strain, know you're always right, don’t know what to do, frightened of the waves, feelings that you lose, it’s nearly time, hear a donkey bray, you sit by the fire, before the morning dew, tears seep away, no one can reach you, C’mon Gracie try, people pine for your days, long silent nights, golden moment’s true, love will find a way, mist rises from the roof, it’ll all be OK.

Flora

You used to be fine, to drink for fun, laugh an estuary wide, no need for tea, humour lachrymose, jokes your repartee, now that you find, hearing water run, you need mor time, if rain starts to cease, stuff carries on, depend on that certainty, speak when it’s right, never shout and jump, what keeps for a while, voyage to the deep, hide it from the sun, don’t lose your dreams, where is the line, seeking love that runs, mountains to climb, before coming home?