Poetry

Coffee, Medium Double

by Daphne Alexopoulou
Coffee grains swirl around the cup
and up the sides patterns are forming.
Now we wait, we have to do it right.
Mysterious runes, my future
and my past, marks of joy, […]

by Daphne Alexopoulou
The ravens know, annoying as they are,
loudly displaying their disapproval all day
adding their cries to our growing unease
from the happy treetops of our suburban paradise.
The rainbow lorikeets sound happy
but then, I don’t speak bird. […]

Fredrik Lloyd Poetry

Fredrik Lloyd Poetry THE HILL Consisted of a collection of writings by Fredrik, which were based on recorded interviews on the subject of local rumours and hearsay. The aim was to show the need for local myths and legends in order to have a developed sense of belonging to the place you live. The Hill […]

Petrichor

A Poem by Daphne Alexopoulou
After the mad dash to shut the windows,
we don’t go back to doing stuff,
we just sit on the balcony
paying obeisance to the storm.
Rain, thunder, lightning.
We sit on our balcony just being. Watching.
Not doing, or achieving,

Fount of Footsteps

A Poem by Stefan Freedman, August 2021
Dance is a fountain
Each droplet races upwards
And cascades down
To be chased by another and another
Rippling like emerald moonbeams
While the water’s skin stays serene
Holding a steady form

RAV

by Frederik Lloyd
The darkness had a crack
and out of it came Rav, the first born.
No one knew why
no one had called him.
In that sense he was alone.
He came out as if scored from a sheet of dark glass He never flew, he flapped.

Starlight on Her Fingers

Starlight on Her Fingers by Elia Ish Duncan Luminescent sea. Luminary ancestors, all their work flows by. Seasons slip past wonder. Mountains built on one last try. Sea mists rise, wiping tears from mother nature’s eyes. Canyons tear at thunder clouds. Rivers sleep with rocks. The recovery is catatonic under human sheets. That place where […]

The Man Who Loved Earthquakes

The Man Who Loved Earthquakes by Daphne Alexopoulou I once knew a man who loved earthquakes.Never have I ever felt God closer, he said, than in the big Mexican earthquake.The Earth heaving and shakingand all I could feel was a huge worshipful joy as surrender filled my being.I thought, that’s because you don’t have children.I […]

Unreported Miracles

Unreported Miracles by Daphne Alexopoulou Not all birds find it easy to fly.As they struggle inelegantly to stay afloat,the wind is not playing fair/not for them. Necks strainingthey flap and flap and somehowthey keep going.Spare a thought for those of uswho find life difficult,the ungainly ones,the ones who keep striving to just be,like birds with […]