by admin | Oct 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Written for MediaStrong Conference 2026 The camera whose cracked lens has seen too much The writer with ink run dry whose mental script keeps running The carrier pigeon with broken wings sent out to fly The witness of burnt bodies whose own burnout is never witnessed...
by admin | Oct 9, 2026 | Poems for Healing
It has been five years since I realised I was a shell of a person. The inner fractures were silent chasms. Barely any help could touch the sides, it all just echoed and reverberated round the dark chambers. Somehow, slowly, there has been some repair. I have met...
by admin | Jun 24, 2026 | Poems for Body Systems, Poems for Carers, Poems for Healing, Poems for NHS Workers, Poems for Women
So many thresholds are hidden. Even those with clear punctuation marks like a change of job or something that involves a ceremony. We have rituals for these. But even they are brief, perhaps a few hours, maybe a day or two. Certainly not enough time to travel such an...
by admin | Jun 15, 2026 | Poems for Healing, Poems for Women
rust fired off in all directions like sparks clatter of metal over metal the release of coils unbinding that anchor would never move wedded to the ocean floor, is left behind this ship, tethered for years releases the handle listens for the crash as the chains fall...
by admin | Jun 8, 2026 | Poems for Carers, Poems for Healing, Poems for NHS Workers
There is little point in tending to the edges of the riverbanks if what is allowed to flow through is poison. At it’s most simple moral injury is where what you believe to be true and what you experience do not align. More than that, they clash in such a way...