Wimbledon Prayer
“Lead me not into unforced errors./ Let me not be despatched into oblivion/ By a fresh-faced opponent—unseeded, unknown…” Shanta Acharya marks the start of Wimbledon 2014 with a tennis player’s prayer.
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Is There a Translator in the House?
“Sudan’s great poet, dead?/ …Why hadn’t we heard him?/ Why didn’t we crowd the streets,/ mourning like the people of his city?” Weekend poem, by Darrell Petska.
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The Law Concerning Mermaids
“…maybe this is the problem with empires: how they have forced us to live in a world lacking in mermaids…” Weekend poem, by Kei Miller.
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Joe Swift knew nothing of musick
“I flicked a farthing// to the best busker in all the universe and wandered/ home with rushing-watermill ears..” Weekend poem, by Adam Heardman.
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Question
“I think of my own mother/ folded tight into/ her warm dark bed/ of Mississippi Delta clay.” Weekend poem (May 18), by Susan Castillo Street.
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Tarazoo
“I see cracked brown hands/ pick a pair of amrood/ on two stems kissing like cherries.”
Weekend poem (May 11), by Yusra Amjad.
For La Llorona
“come when the rains/ will not stain your/ lily-white shroud// where the sun/ will not freeze/ your blood…” Weekend poem, by David Ishaya Osu.
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An Old Soul Angles Inside Itself
“Waits for a tug at the bait:/ a book with blank pages strung/ from the hook of a question mark.” Weekend poem, by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
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‘As though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul’
“Then there were stars and he tried to breathe in the pulse of their light./ The flickering of stars is like the heartbeat before death.” Weekend poem, by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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World Pageant, Miss Germany 2013 – ‘Beauty with a Purpose’
“It diminishes you,/ Amina, so// To sell your splendour/ In the name of charity…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Reilly.
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