Issue 1: In this issue

Editorial

Competition

Alanna Blake:

On Being Angry

Advice to a Would-be Entrepreneur

Tony Cloke:

Three untitled Haiku

Bill Greenwell:

Amy, Amy

Oh Woes, Thou Run Thick!

A Poison Tree

Matt Harvey:

She Said to Him

If Love

Great Conversions of Our Time

Helena Nelson:

The Normal Child

Submission Guidelines

Man and Nature: A Meditation

Bob Newman:

I just couldn't resist

The Bittern

Two Clerihews

D A Prince:

Mirror, Mirror

A Million Miles from Vogue

George Herbert Downs Tools

Andy Proudfoot

Open Letter

George Simmers:

Light

Frances Thompson

A Lady's First Sighting of Michelangelo's David

Announcement

John Whitworth

The Things She Says

Captain W E Johns Rallies Us in the Dark Days of the War

 

 

 

 

Advice To a Would-be  Entrepreneur

 

Listen here!  If you’re really ambitious

To succeed as an entrepreneur

You must be from the start avaricious

With a force that is truly majeure.

 

When you’re greedy for profit, you’ve started

With the right attitude for success.

Any fool who starts off as kind-hearted

Will end up in a loss-making mess.

 

It was no prudent Chancellor brought us

Our Empire where fortunes were made,

But the chance of enrichment that taught us

All the trickier aspects of trade.

 

Let the losers keep thinking that greed is

A contemptible species of sin;

Go and grab what you can, all you need is

A rapacious approach, and you’ll win.

 

Alanna Blake