PinnedMember-only🥀 Tulipa Moon 🥀🥀 A Collection of Poems by 🥀 Sally A Mortemore To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Robert Graves If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as…Poetry Collection5 min readPoetry Collection5 min read
Published inScribe·PinnedMember-onlyThe Tree of Me …A Free Verse Poem — will you water me and care for my most sensitive of natures. nurture love and cherish my tender sapling limbs. your deepest thoughts. like water. a quench for the heightened thirst i lust for. feed my earth with passion. nourish. my youthful charm a thrall. will you place the truth…Scribe2 min readScribe2 min read
Published inScribe·PinnedMember-onlyNothing but the Memories From a Louder Past: UnforgottenFree Verse Poetry — a siren blares across the roof tops wet slate grey with late night rain a factory call to arm the Rivet Works much louder come a storm my mother claims. like trains. their carriages to London rattling tracks through speeding fields with tightly packed commuters. …Scribe1 min readScribe1 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Nov 29Member-onlyAn Unnamed Forma small poem about bigness — The Howling Owl1 min readThe Howling Owl1 min read
Published inScrittura·Nov 17Member-onlyAnd So it Comes …A Free Verse Poem — and so i idle closer to my final destination trying hard to focus so as not to smile. or bask within the solemn act of wisdom — which now resides between the whys and wherefores of existence. ‘yet somehow nothing ever seems to try and answer back. ‘a small yelp…Scrittura2 min readScrittura2 min read
Published inThe Bad Influence·Nov 13Member-onlyProud Fleshor look what the cat did … — From out of the mouth of a graze births a granulated tissue head — a hypertrophic alien mutant and muling authority deemed from its point of intrusion forcing its way to the light This raw pink cranium of proud flesh taunts on every movement cellular components enlarging daily — to trap one poorly-demented host in a perpetual cycle…Free Verse Poetry1 min readFree Verse Poetry1 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Nov 8Member-onlyColour Mein sorrow — the weight of my colour ‘white upon ivory sin. the white within opaline tissue — complexion ever my colourless skin. ‘buries me heavy. ‘lays my head in the sand — enshrouds my body with sackcloth. ‘weighs me steadily down — my colour tarnished — the blue of my pulsating veins…The Howling Owl2 min readThe Howling Owl2 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Oct 25Member-onlyAutumn LiesIn the style of seven Haikus — these strong black shadows devastate the eye. belied. for Autumn scorches. will winter fare her ruffled coat. or shuffle heat like feet in water. raw blistered souls. hot skins in congregations. shred. ‘side season’s gait. drowned. for streets run rivers. high-tides on rising waters claw savaged buildings. this war of…The Howling Owl2 min readThe Howling Owl2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Oct 18Member-onlyStupidityA free Verse conversation with Thee, Me and I Do you have any young friends asks the boy his mouth filled with plums Why (am I so old that youth would not befriend me) I would ask you to come home states the boy his breath dredged in dust Why (am…Scuzzbucket1 min readScuzzbucket1 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Oct 11Member-onlyBecoming an AdultFree Verse — The Howling Owl1 min readThe Howling Owl1 min read