Jade

What separates from our best, does a sail make us shrill, our flight to change address, a raging thirst for home, maps, some salt,let us thrill, forget we leave our bones, don't mock at our requests, on nights battered or still, we scan our weathered compass, locate to inventive zones, where we'll eat our fill, hope to escape our shadows, put our days at sea to rest, face each wave or rill, struggle each duress, send us back if cosmatose, devoured by men or kids, flame or water to confess, God retains our will.

Ivory

How do we measure luck, do you gaze at the sea, wonder if its ever enough, lovers talk of winding roads, what it means to be, heaving a trail ofstones, its no use acting tough, better at my age to see, the waste in sleeping rough, drink wine by broken 'phones, rivers wash our feet, sun dries our clothes, flip a coin for shucks, baby's due she tells me nothing beats a mother's love, let me visit daughter's home no more ruxh nor hurry, husband bans all my calls, desolation street.

Hannah

When I was losing cred, you told me to be strong, I won't see you again, you sent me poems, dancing lines of song, who else does rise alone, freedom's sense of dread, whispers other wrongs, sit for days in bed, having someone to know, greater than bells rung, laughing lovers in tow, can't pray for the rest, drawing fire with tongs, my manner's not the best, not likely to suppose, why our paths have crossed, make my lipstick glow, grant me this loss.

Gerrie

I'm sat here aghast, shuddering at what's bought, thinking this cannot last, my partner asks, a penny for your thoughts, how to broach this task, love to see him dance, jigging about on thorns, a modern day iconoclast, Oh it's useless this cast, i'd rather be caught, on the next downward path, other lovers spring the trap, me struggling to be born, sweating with each fast, I dream of a better class, silken not torn, he'll come around again, broken unsought.

Farah

Oh to be free, says my lover on high, between you and the sea, no fire or blue ozone, tweaks sun's early rise, can hamper his tone, his cigarette sweeps, like a bird on the line, all that lays before me, he thinks we're as one, the cabin's early light, is kind but cold, such hopes of eternity, are not very wise, garnerin hopes of epiphany, can't you be done, I want to cry, dawn flights are so long, leave traces of night.

Emily

We stand with her ashes, laid bare at the ferry, a rain cut sky in slashes, she adds a final note, banishes worries we carry, said life is but a joke, thanks God for her cash, what's not to find lovely, bequeathed golden tracks, more than any other bloke, walking in glum reverie, laughed the way we spoke, In all manner of fashion, love has its own tributaries, contained in tweed jackets, Orange kids wait and smoke, proud at the dawn jetty, cheeks pale as they blow, her elegant epiphany.

Della

How you contemplate gain, acting like some seer, blowing like a hurricane, so far gone, asking rivers to part here, honour your holy bones, tell animals leave the plain, kneel weeping at our fear, you are just a fake, last winter on tidal stones, everyone sat close to tears, waiting for visions to show, souls don't work that way, a trapeze of fallen years, eyes try to fnd a space, we won't hesitate, denounce your passage near, all the madness you create, suddenly is clear.