Poetry

"...Death is a passport, a left behind baggage note..."

Robert Ronnow's most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird (Broken Publications, 2012). Visit his web site at www.ronnowpoetry.com.

"...red as the cliffs of moab..."

"...Until what she feared was already breaths in her chest..."

"...Do you feel that love is the most intriguing thing?.."

"...during the reign of the unseated strongman..."

The uphill battle...

Joel Schueler has a BA(Hons) in English Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has just finished his first novel and his works have been accepted across eight different countries in over two dozen publications including Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Bangalore Review & The Brasilia Review.

"...a wine that pairs well with the offering..."

"...whales tell no lies in their arias..."

"...They always find you when you are too flawed..."

"...professing one thing but practicing another..."

"...until all of the diamonds turn back into coal..."

"...A ballet of perfection, A last waltz, for a day now done.

"...vagaries and detours, obstacles and false starts..."

"...Embers fading, ashes flying, eyes like a smoke filled room..."

"...Kaftan white on catalogue of drooling moon..."

Beginning a weekly poetic commentary by Ndaba Sibanda. Look around you and see where the words resonate...

"...Where oblivion has come to die..."

"A woman who looks a lot like the woman you loved last summer..."

"...Go away, leave me thinking..."

"Unreal voice from my past, who are you?.."

"...the delicate lasso of paisley prints..."

"...throw kerosene on the flames in her heart..."

"...You are my heart..."

"...She lost trust in those who were supposed to protect her..."

You might have done things differently, but this ship has long since sailed...

"...I wasn't letting happiness in without a fight today...."

"...it's murder in the dairy aisle..."

"...In what field strides the Earth..."