My first time at Stafford Poetry Slam, I performed this poem in the first round. I went through to the the final, where I came second. I haven’t done many slams before, despite writing since childhood, so I am very pleased with the result. Trying to decide what poems could fit with this event, I…
Photo: @Gareth Reed carbon gas dwells just a few notes above the golden tears and the village dazed by music tequila marijuana I remember the first time I heard his music that summer when I was very fat very in love with a German young man visiting with my cousin I was one step away…
Today, in Romania we celebrate Palm Sunday, which is called Florii. Probably linked with the old pagan traditions, it means the flowers (Sunday). I myself was baptised on this day, the year I was born. And as we celebrate Easter today in the UK, with my first Easter catholic mass yesterday evening, my thoughts go back to…
