Tuesday, 25 March 2025

India

Love holds the door ajar, my heart is down the line, never know who you are, just sit around a Pool, trees wave in blended time, who needs more bad news, I ask about my Da, yes please another wine, lonely as a shooting star, everyone he fooled, in a poor jaded time, the hopeless the gullible, new homes shining cars, he didn't hear Ma cry, a house of stolen parts, including me and you, forget the hurt inside, he's a useless mule, gathered around the bar, we see the morning rise, one of us goes too far, fury in his eyes.

Monday, 24 March 2025

Hayley

A law book on my knees, demand to see the child, what lies in between, even when you can show, all fury at my smile, it's for me to know, can’t I have some ease, you ignore all the signs, believe your own belief, tell me what's not true, a power beyond my sight, always claim the virtue, wrapped in your entreats, whispered prayers at night, throw them back at me, the terms that you issue, allow no heaven's insight, lawyers stick like glue, you ask the judiciary, award the precious mite, a home across the sea, my rage to fight?

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Georgia

You say it’s time to leave, don't really want to know, why you can't just be, say you want away, to live or die alone, play your own game, our love is bittersweet, no human need for home, children, fire, dreams, if silence is your sea, to dance on moonlit stones, doesn't make you pretty, I'll sing along and pray, the only song I own, before you eat your cake, can you hear me keen, tied to an iron stove, locked in like Euripides, please don't provoke me, I only weigh eight stone, you will feel my fury, are you that far gone?

Saturday, 22 March 2025

Franny

Don't let the doom sound, make out it seems, you'll always be bound, bad weather follows on, a scarf to that breeze, home always find a home, use the wind as a friend, follow your dreams, whenever hold the ground, you know how it's done, laugh beside the sea, welcome what's to come, dark days of leaving town, are now only history, find a way working around, when fields turn blond, you'll note the need, even if love's a marathon, believe what you believe.

Friday, 21 March 2025

Emilia

The diagnosis half true, you smell the Limes, on a tree-lined avenue, act like you don't know, the tests are blind, don't really go to show, hope only for the few, cradles weigh like stones, you sit near the flue, it's not like a crime, fire warms your bones, things you can make light, each lonely moon, when the kid's phone , try to say poof, drink leads to night, such a strange cacaphone, to keep asking why, where's there to go ?

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Demi

Fear hollows out my night, makes me clasp ancient flame, waits for lamps to shine, when I'm most shot through, you’ll hear me straight, consider any change to do, a dream of life outside, moments given over to pray, drink a little sweet wine, there are no avenues, I won’t sail again, until we pay our dues, laugh in a better clime, no one else to blame, part of me is dying, don't need pointy shoes, arrange for Chess to play, to guide me back to you, beyond a love held tight, can you apply a tourniquet, squeeze out all my fright, take me home again.

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Clarissa

Will you stay the same, beneath the trees, each time we celebrate, shy to your toes, we drink in the heat, toasting our warm home, then the morning drains, it's not just our feet, seeps through our frame, believe me I'll go, to dream of the sea, if you won't help float, dollars for the game, fix us something to eat, my prayer's not the same, to see you like this, when sun sinks uneven, will show you the score, bright springime me.