Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

It's only real poetry if it comes from the Poët region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling whine.

Here another spooky one.

Some ancient witches. I love the bat at the top of the picture.

I suppose my question would be: which is the desire path?

Very different type of poem but it’s related. The comfort of my breath In this age of double glazing why can't I sleep like I did when the windows frosted on both sides, and I would hop into my bed whip the covers over against the draughts and warm the space around me with my breath?

Throw away your Complete Works of Shakespeare, folks:

A beautiful poem by Douglas Dunn which everyone should memorise and recite by water while rain gathers in a nearby glass of single malt.

I am terribly sad to hear the great Douglas Dunn has died. I turn to a treasured copy of Terry Street, inscribed by both the author and its previous owner Derek Mahon!

Like both these poems, but I couldn’t stop the British proverb ‘loose lips sink ships’ coming to mind in the second poem because the rhyme.

Objectivity   As many as 26% of us find love. Only 26% of us find love. 26% find love.

Many congratulations! It’s a wonderful place to be published.

grateful to have this little poem, & another, in the new issue of NOON, which editor Philip Rowland has designed to be read as its own renga-like chain of poems... The effect is lovely, & I'm linking to the issue in the comments, if you'd like to spend a little time w/ it...

🖼️ Gigei No Tomo

Trump is the biggest arsehole in history. And I don’t even want to give him that!