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Poem of the Week | Crocodiles at Siem Reap by Patrick Deeley
Crocodiles at Siem Reap
by Patrick Deeley
They wait beyond the tourist tickets
you queue to purchase; beyond the ‘Help
Preserve Wild Animals’ sign,
the shop selling leather accessories
where display models of…
Poem of the Week | Elsewhere by Jeremy Haworth
Elsewhere
by Jeremy Haworth
Storm-coked waters,
Rain-stitched earth,
wind cold as the swipe
of a feathered hook
peeling the iron
of trawlers junked
in a bath of silt.
One a hoop of ribs,…
Poem of the Week | Valour in Darkness by Hibah Shabkhez
VALOUR IN DARKNESS
by Hibah Shabkhez
As ebony concedes star after star
To the bruising mist from the east
We cackle and rise.
Smiles of triumph after our secret war
Light up the suffused heaving breast…
Poem of the Week | Vacating by Kevin Higgins
Vacating
by Kevin Higgins
Tomorrow we vacate the House of Hope,
pack what-was-to-have-been
in the brown cardboard boxes
we retain from our previous exile.
Once we’re safely gone,
the plain kitchen table at…
Poem of the Week | The Art of Circles by John Grey
THE ART OF CIRCLES
by John Grey
He taught me how to draw
by starting everything with circles.
To him, the world was built on roundness.
As long as the ends join, he'd say,
then everything's complete.
The…
Poem of the Week | Voices by Máire Morrissey
Voices
By Máire Morrissey
After the storm
there is a stillness,
it descends like a soft drizzle
to bless the morning.
Down by the cove,
the gulls gather
to bathe in rain filled rock pools.
Great…
Poem of the Week | January and Decay by Ruth Quinlan
January and Decay
After ‘April and Silence’ by Tomas Tranströmer
By Ruth Quinlan
This dark month crouches by the compost bin,
waiting to be thrown to the frozen heap.
It is the tea-bag of stewed brew at the bottom of a…
Poem of the Week | Me Aul Flower by Sageanne Senneff
Me Aul Flower
By Sageanne Senneff
water runs clean out of the can
gently twisted
the same way you pour each word out of me
a bud of hope blooms from the water
filling the earth with roots
that finally have something to hold on to…
Poem of the Week | Transatlantic Love By Yasmina Silva
Transatlantic Love
By Yasmina Silva
https://soundcloud.com/user-773249019/transatlantic-love-story-by-yasmina-silva
Submissions are open for all HeadStuff poetry categories, including Poem of The Week (Every Friday), Unbound…
Poem Of The Week | ‘Green’ by Alison Driscoll
Green
by Alison Driscoll
Green is abandonment, the overgrown, the unattended
The ivy asphyxiating pebble dashed walls
Green men moonwalking at night, the green of isolation
The green of bilateral fields waving us home,…