Guest Poems
We love to read your poetry and, even though we receive over 1,000 poems per month, we always take time to read every single one.
A few of the poems we especially enjoyed and which were selected for publication in our Journal are reprinted below.
For more information, please see our Submissions page.
Guest Poems
Piers Cain
Half life
It all depends which way you turn in the half
light, in the space between day and night
or between one year and another.
It affects how much your eye adapts, and how dark
or bright the sky you face, how soon or late
for you the night draws in.
And when you walk in the hollow dark at dawn
you feel the expanse of the air around you while a glimpse
of light turns the foreground ocean grey.
Why did you choose the heaving bulk of the hill,
the patchy dun of the paving stones in the lane,
the muzzy form of the car in the car park?
You who’d always loved the trees and fields
why did you walk towards the failing light?
Matt Gilbert
A Solar Diversion
The sun slants low. Rays point west,
refracting from the roofs of oversized
parked cars on Manor Mount, forcing you
to squint, walking down the slope towards
the station. Preceded by long shadows,
bouncing to the rhythm of their owner’s feet,
you are trailed by your own. The suburbs are
a dancefloor. Commuters outlined by morning
shine. A light fiercer than any nightclub laser.
The dazzling energy of our local star: 93
million miles off, sending warmth and still in full
possession of the unthinking power to obliterate us all.
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