POETRY — ENIGMA

Intruder

I want to find

the big old thing

that has been on my mind.

Aayushi JainGuest UserAugust 9, 2019mind, house

Listening to your Voice at 2am

though you say it’s 2.37, telling me what love is…

Matthew WardGuest UserJuly 23, 2019time, relationships

ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL, 1997

When Hale-Bopp crossed the sky,

Dad’s fleece jacket frayed at the edges

Bethany SaundersGuest UserJune 8, 2019birth

Shot Down

Paper-thin skin sliced.

Scissors through Christmas wrapping paper.

Chloe EnglandGuest UserMay 13, 2019relationships

Thought Contagion

invasive thoughts

have invaded my mind

David MarallagGuest UserMay 8, 2019rhyme, existential

Deep Throat

This poem is about how I learnt to swallow. How I forced my throat to break the confines of science. How I raised my tired middle finger to biology and morphed into a hybrid of myself.

Lumba PhiriGuest UserApril 25, 2019prose poetry, racism, imperialism

Ashes

Reach around with an iron fist, strangle land and sea at whim.

Melissa OramGuest UserApril 18, 2019imperialism, memory

Milk

He is afraid that her white stomach

will ripen,

stilling blood-black water

and staining sheets.

Milan GeorgeGuest UserApril 11, 2019sonnet, relationships

Laugh

I’ve never quite understood it.

Your face starts to change…

Harry CatonGuest UserApril 4, 2019specular poem, laughter, anatomy

If You Hear a Train Going to Exeter

If you hear a train going to Exeter

I recommend speaking to station staff at East Croydon

Ellen GraceGuest UserMarch 26, 2019trains, customer serviceComment

Disintegrating Ode for a Nightingale

A blizzard a figure inside it I mistook it for a nightingale

George RichardsGuest UserMarch 20, 2019ode, astronomy, Mental Health

COAX

These tidings wash me up to your shore.

I am the bottle and the message

and the messenger

Mubanga MweembaGuest UserMarch 19, 2019water, love Comment