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The Buddha Amitābha - by D. M. Black

{ Poem }

Without joy there can be no salvation
/ and without love there can be no joy.

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport - by Emma Lazarus

{ Poem }

Here, where the noises of the busy town, / The ocean’s plunge and roar can enter not, / We stand…

Andra on November 30th - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Saint Andra o the Blessed Beuk, / as Scottish as a Heelan Duke.

Diwali, Manchester 2001 - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I think of windows as I think of caves…

Personal History: For My Son - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

for my son
/
/ O my heart is the unlucky heir of the ages
/ And my body is unwillingly the secret agent
/ Of my…

Canna – can - by Angus Dunn

{ Poem }

It seems some Calvinist has been there / naming the island…

Having no Cattish - by Alison Prince

{ Poem }

The cat fits in the crook of my arm
/ as would a new-born child, although
/ equipped with wariness.
/ He cares for me much…

Bladerunner - by Rob A. Mackenzie

{ Poem }

Let’s do something you’ll never tell
/ your friends about, my convenient wife.
/ Read me theology until holiness runs
/ deeper than my sackcloth and…

Lost - by Hamid Shami

{ Poem }

To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod,
/ ‘A man with no culture has no identity.’
/
/ The last I heard of him was,…

Les Dieux - by Françoise Han

{ Poem }

Ils viennent
/ comme des amis longtemps absents
/ qui sonnent à la porte du jardin
/ dans leurs vêtements
/ flotte un parfum de lointains pays
/
/ ils ne…

Caritas - by Rachael Boast

{ Poem }

The speaking stones
/
/ These stones speak a level language,
/ murmured word by word,
/ a speech pocked and porous with loss,
/ redressed by the slow…

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