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A Game of Two Halves

Tim Gardiner·April 6, 2019

A Game of Two Halves written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 Match day arrives, 12 November 1988, Norwich...

English Poetry

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Ready To Go

Tim Gardiner·March 8, 2019

Ready To Go written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 Anita’s enthusiasm pulls us through another tardy Wednesday afternoon,...

English Poetry

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Defib

Tim Gardiner·February 10, 2019

Defib written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 I run past the memorial bench by the lake and up...

English Poetry

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Matsushima

Tim Gardiner·October 21, 2018

Matsushima written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 A pregnant moon rises above the bay, illuminating limestone islands. My...

English Halloween Poetry

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Oulton John

Tim Gardiner·September 24, 2018

Oulton John written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 Ten years have passed since I was made redundant from...

English Poetry

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Shamelessly

Genie Nakano·May 23, 2017

Shamelessly written by: Genie Nakano @genieyogini White cane tapping He wants to cross the street He is...

English Poetry

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Urbania

Genie Nakano·March 31, 2017

Urbania written by: Genie Nakano @genieyogini Running through wheat fields and skipping stones across the river are...

English Poetry

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Her Mother’s Mirror

Allyson Lyon·July 29, 2016

Her Mother’s Mirror written by: Allyson Lyon @aroamingpoet Miles above, the water is as still as the...

English Poetry

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Simona is a Romanian-born published author living in UK where she enjoys her profession as a radiographer and writing as her biggest passion. Her first traditional published poetry book, Visările dintre castani (Daydreams among chestnut trees) came out this year (Siono Publishing House in Romania). Her writings are posted online on Spillwords, Webcultura, eCreator and Belgium Time. Being a woman, a daughter, a sister, a mother, an expat, a Transylvanian and a Londoner now, Simona is taking the sight to personal life experience with a social writing touch. She is a member of the World Jam, a worldwide poetry and music community based in Nottingham, where she discovered the joy of performing on stage as a poet. Simona’s most significant writing advocates and supporters are her sons who are pursuing their dreams while completing their PhD courses.

THE END OR A NEW BEGINNING? by Cristina Crucianu

I woke up to my grandmother whispering to me: “It’s over. She’s passed.”

Like an automaton, I got up, and I obliged myself to hand in the project I had been hired for before all the frenzy of organizing a funeral began. A calm sky was lazily waking up as if nothing had happened. In the distance, the roosters’ crows were alerting the villagers that it was time to wake up. The crow, accompanied by the incessant barking of neighbors’ dogs, was the perfect alarm system that even the highest alarm systems could not compete with...

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