Poetry

So What, If

So What, If What if you’re told you can’t, when you know you can When you’re still in the running not an also ran Start off last and end up first The party’s last balloon to burst To be full of intention but put down when you try Yet stand straight back up and throw defiance in […]

Fiction

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers It was just lying there, underneath the table, Naomi had spotted it while clearing up, It was 1.30am and she had had a long hard shift. An iPhone 5, brand new, she couldn’t believe her luck. On her meagre wages there was no way she could afford one of these but now here […]

Fiction Satire

A Statement From the BBC

A Statement from the BBC The BBC unequivocally apologises for any  insult, hurt, stress, trauma,abuse,affrontery,derision,discourtesy,disrespect,ignominy,impertinence,impudence,incivility, insolence, offense, outrage, rudeness, shame or slander that any of our viewers may have felt or felt subject to, think they felt, either real or not or felt they felt in any way conscious or subconscious either mentally spiritually or […]

Poetry

Remembrance

Remembrance It is a small act Just once a year A pause Slight hush In the hubbub of life. One hundred and twenty seconds Of silent reflection Such a small thing In exchange For such a sacrifice Just silence For the lives lost And the loves lost And the limbs lost It seems a nothing […]