by Danielle | Sep 25, 2023 | News
Thank you to everyone joining and contributing to the Acumen 106 Celebration, it was a delight to see over 85 people from across the world listening so attentively, and for the conversation, discussion and excellent poetry readings. We were delighted to welcome people...
by Danielle | Sep 21, 2023 | Guest Poems
Finisterre The lawn is browning, hydrangeas are leached,colours dried to taffeta,summer fading early. Parched.Last night we left a saucer of waterfor linnets who gather on the telegraph wire;insects have drowned in it overnight. Through a gap in the ferns beyond the...
by Danielle | Sep 21, 2023 | Guest Poems
Advice on Caving for Survivalor Marriage as an Extreme Sport Caving is a polarising sport: underground/marriageis one of those places you’re either happy or you’re not. As the leader, you will have to take control. Mistakescould rapidly escalate a situation into...
by Danielle | Sep 11, 2023 | Guest Poems
The Light You are composed of heavenly light and shade,arms raised like Caravaggio’s Saint Paulin his Conversion on the Road to Damascus.Your hands reach into the surgeon’s light.I am relegated to the shadowslike Saul’s servant, holding the horse’s head,a role of...
by Danielle | Sep 11, 2023 | Guest Poems
Still, still So being in loveis a lake. The worldturns upside down. We shatter itwhen we dive in. How darkit had to become. To see the unnumberedsparks on each shook swell. To feel their goldhooks fixed in us.
