by Rachel Piercey | Dec 15, 2023 | Issue 6 poems
We peer back in time with hexagonal mirrors, thinly cloaked in gold. Gazing at stars that died long ago, we guess what our future might hold. We follow the light to the edge of existence, the gap between galaxies growing. I wonder, once our star goes dark – will...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
I found you on a sad day. You lay on the pavement’s edge as if someone had kicked you aside, small, grey and imperfectly round. Eyes to the ground, I crept past, then a flicker of sun, and you winked and I knew that wink was for me. You were a perfect fit for my palm...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 resources, Resources
All of the poems in issue 5 are also available as free poem-posters to download, print and display. There are also free, downloadable teaching resources around the poems ‘A Dreamy Afternoon on the Common’ by Rhiannon Oliver, ‘The Pond’ by Hugh Dunkerley, and ‘What...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
They shift above: The face of a man with a beard as long As his wait for love, A woman dancing free, arms reaching, reaching, A lost dolphin leaping, A giant frog, complete with bunny’s tail, Half a whale, Another face – wide eyes staring, wild hair flaring, A planet...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
Let’s go see what the tide brought in, Down to the shore with the keeping tin. Scrump’ll come too – he’ll swim. Pebbles and stones and sea-stripped twigs. Seaweed clumps like mermaid wigs. Scrump’ll come too – he’ll dig. A chunk of sea glass, big as your thumb. A...
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