Three new poems in Black Mirror Magazine today

                                                                       

I will never never understand wars. Here you can read
Watching the news by María Castro Domínguez      

Watching the news

no-bodies like trash left behind

dressed in dust and dirt, scorched

into dry rigid bone

some stowed in wagons

locked away but they

relentlessly  knock

I was alive a while ago

opens unclosed

torpedoes our eyes

livid.

"Understanding" by María Castro Domínguez in Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine

Delighted to see my poem "Understanding" published in one of my favourite poetry magazines Message in a Bottle, with Derek Sellen´s fantastic art work. 

A magazine where as the Editor says :

Looks for work that displays a virtuoso use of language. 

Poems that strive to express ideas in arresting images which surprise and delight. 

Metaphors so original we get a tinge of jealousy  after reading.

We favour poems whose subject matter brings to our attention the unusual, the unsung and the overlooked , whose events and characters  are so memorable, we return to them hours and  days later. We love to read brave poems that are sent out in to the world like ' messages in a bottle'.

Melancholy and other poems by María Castro Domínguez

Look at what´s new in

Expound Magazine 

by María Castro Domínguez.

Poetry writing

Good to see how the process of writing poetry can be: Liz Berry

Like many of the poems in Black Country, it took a long time for ‘Sow’ to travel from its first notes to its final form.  It began as a scribbled note in my diary in May 2010. I was walking along Highgate Tube platform in a new pair of black boots and, hearing them trip-trapping, I looked down and imagined them as little hooves and myself as some kind of animal. On the tube I made this note in my diary....

My discovery today Carole Satyamurti

Carole Satyamurti wrote the poem: I shall paint my nails red. 

I Shall Paint My Nails Red

Because of a bit of color is a public service.

Because I am proud of my hands.

Because it will remind me I’m a woman.

Because I will look like a survivor.

Because I can admire them in the mirror.

Because my daughter will say ugh.

Because my lover will be surprisesd.

Because it is quickyer than dyeing my hair.

Because it is a ten-minute moratorium.

Because it is reversible.