Candle Night
Featured in New Lyre Winter 2023 Dangerous to touch, yet tempting me to step into a world of memories. And in a darkened room, when my...
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By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Images & Other Poetry
Images You spoke of them as if they were real. People who lived in a sepia toned world, pressed like flowers behind polished glass. Part...
By Rowland Hughes
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Throwing Away the Wind
It was the best kite we’d made, at least the only one that flew. An old tablecloth, needle and thread, bamboo canes, string and folded...
By Rowland Hughes
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
A Valley Funeral
Men, uncomfortably well dressed in funeral black, collars frayed, starched white, old shoes thick with polish. A woman pours tea into...
By Rowland Hughes
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Lake and Rainbow
We stopped at the lakeside and saw our first rainbow. It bled from a rusty sky, imported from a world unfamiliar to us both. This was...
By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 1, 2022
- 1 min
Last Light
The last moment of sunshine dribbles from the watering-can. The moon, hunchback on a cloud, gathers its borrowed light, as the...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Child in the Café
Sat in the toy corner, withdrawn from the conversations around him. He opens a world of imagination, where the wooden blocks are windows...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream
Falling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
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