Tag: Senses
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Swing
#NaPoWriMo Day Two Today’s prompt was to write a poem which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. I have loosely followed this prompt and combined it with #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, which is also today, creating a poem from the perpective of a child with autism. I hope I have done some small justice to what…
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Ode to Coffee
I can taste the electrification as it courses through my nose, As it sparks each hair like static and then jolts into my dome. Rich and full and bitter, With a depth I’ve never known, I can all but see the flavour; It has a body of its own. The scent whispers to me softly,…
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Let It Go
Long wooden pole Splintered Louse infested Makeshift hook at one end Lowered into the water Blindly splashing about Knowing it’s out there Somewhere – Then – The hook catches something Something…big A pungent smell rising Into the night air Mixed with cold sweat Fear With last ounces of strength Digging heals into the fresh mud…
Serena Malcolm 