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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

 

 

 

 

On Being Angry

 

It’s great to be thoroughly angry,

to scream and blaspheme and then froth

and foam while your justified fury

gives roof-raising vent to your wrath.

And, oh, the relief to be flinging

dispensable crocks at the wall

makes anger, in levels of sinning,

the most satisfying of all.

 

Some folk do not relish a battle

or give a free rein to their rage;

they bottle it up, which is fatal

for then it will fester with age.

So never try keeping your temper

with partner or carer or friend;

go out with a yell not a whimper

and slam every door at the end.

 

Alanna Blake