When Will It Be Time to Wear the Stove Pipe Hat Again?
During the Rebecca Riots, men from South Wales wore the stove pipe hat and Welsh maids outfit as an act of defiance. Where is that spirit now?
During the Rebecca Riots, men from South Wales wore the stove pipe hat and Welsh maids outfit as an act of defiance. Where is that spirit now?
Here’s another twenty word story based on the prompt found on Bulbul’s site. The prompt is Spaghetti. Twisted, tangled up, confused. I’ve been tying myself up in knots for too… Read More »Spaghetti – Twenty Word Story
It’s been a while since I last posted any writer’s prompts and I fear I have lost all of my regular contributors. I hope there are still some lurking out… Read More »Writer’s Prompts #29
This weeks prompt from Bulbul for Twenty Word Tuesday is Electric. She was electric, elected, and eclectic… exuberant, eccentric, and elastic in an ecstatic, static, tacit and ecclesiastic sort of… Read More »Electric – Twenty Word Tuesday
She sliced slanting glances silently reproaching him although she said something close to nothing no louder than a vacant whisper.
Today’s Twenty Word Tuesday based on Bulbul’s prompt is – Rejuvenation Slowly all of yesterday’s shadows melted away and he was able to feel with the fullness of his soul… Read More »Rejuvenation- Twenty Word Tuesday
This is a piece based on a Twenty Word Tuesday prompt from Bulbul. The Prompt is ‘Hiding’ All the words that were never said silently clung to the air as… Read More »Hiding
Here’s this week’s Twenty-word Tuesday based on Bulbul’s prompt. Today the prompt is Butterfly Effect “The smallest stones” he whispered. “make the biggest waves.” His soft voice echoed like thunder… Read More »Butterfly Effect- Twenty Word Tuesday
The Spaces Between Billions of atoms building blocks cram-packed into nothing into silent gaps into pauses once they were everything and will be again forever and never. Amen Making Space… Read More »Spaces
I heard the words that [passed away in the growing void echo- please stay
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I’m sharing something a little different today- something which is not my own work. I’d like to showcase the talents of Anisha in the first-ever guest post on this site!… Read More »Guest Post- Pilgrimage of a Garden Chair
It’s been a while since I last posted any new writing prompts on this page. My apologies to those that regularly used to visit to use the prompts that I… Read More »Writing Prompts #26
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I’ve recently started taking some new medication called Abilify to stabilise my moods. Because I can go from one extreme to the other quite rapidly, I need something that holds… Read More »Baseline
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As part of this month’s Peoplespeakup Spoken Word Saturday lockdown non-gathering I submitted a video of me reading “You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the… Read More »Spoken Word Saturday #2
Here’s a very short poem called “That’s when I see you” that I wrote for this week’s Peoplespeakup. I’m not a very good listener. I am not very good at… Read More »That’s When I See You
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Here’s a very short poem that I wrote in a PeopleSpeakUp Zoom workshop today. It’s a bit different from my normal style. I hope you all enjoy it! I wonder… Read More »The Invisible Strings
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There. is. nothing. Hours. days. weeks. Nothing. Thoughtless voids of calming drought. Scratching. Nothing. Scratching. Scratching at the words that flow fast and free bouncing joy from the skies the… Read More »Cyclothymia
It’s been a while since I last posted a Flashback Friday, however, buoyed by the fact that in the last 48 hours I’ve had more page-views than in the whole… Read More »Flashback Friday #7 – Dreaming of Walls
There is nowhere more familiar than 96 pixels per inch — than 26 lines of acid ruled, A5 pages, blank. These voids used to fill me with dread — but… Read More »Nowhere More Familiar
As the internet creaks with lockdown fueled conspiracy theories with racist connotations, and we have to endure jokes about kung-flu, it really does remind me that you can believe what… Read More »You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the truth
Last week, for Peoplespeakup’s online gathering of Spoken Word Saturday, I had my piece Worn Down Locked Down featured (Go and read it, if you haven’t already done so!). Peoplespeakup… Read More »Spoken Word Saturday
Here’s a short poem called “as i purge my soul”. As the COVID-19 lockdown has become The Great Spring Clean (that’s how it’ll be referred to in the history books… Read More »as i purge my soul.