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Author Archives: Esme upon the Cloud
For the Love of the Grenfell Lost
In fury we stand, As a jury we stand, Howling and showing our teeth, hand-in-hand. And we stand in the …
It. Will. Out.
The writer leans back; a slow arching of spine, Burning shoulders pressed deep, with a sigh and a whine To …
No. 1 . Shall I?
A new category. I know, I know, the scarcity of them to the right is pitiful. So here, for your …
Finding the Quick
I feel the last two lines of this one set the whole piece ablaze. There’s a link to more through …
This is the Place by Tony Walsh
The poem below was read out at last night at the evening vigil in memory of those people murdered in …
Velvet Javelins
“Sometimes the wish to kill you is As precious to me as the undeniable Fantastical facets opened up by, of, …
Humorous readings for social parties – Maistly Scotch 1882
Esme, deciding she needed a small treat went a wandering along the shores of the Bay of E, and came across …
I came from very far, a little unknown star
I’m not usually much of an ‘Enigma’ fan, but I heard and saw the following out of the blue, and …
Sketch it like Sin.
Enter The Scribbler Canny and clear, Creating the future Before it appears. Scribble me whole will you? Staedtler me in? …
Hollowed out and scurrilous
I came across the following poem the other day and was struck by how tight the composition is. Love as a vexatious …
Afloat and Adrift in Coloured Skies *updated*
Find a moment. Stop. Sit. Breathe in, count to three, then exhale and recognise that’s what you are doing. Start …
Ostinato
Even in silence The room held its breath, Paper stars crossed the flats, The soprano played dead. Even in silence …
Published in 101 Words alone
Esme enters stage left and stands facing the (marauding as ever) crowds Ahem. The Cloud has an announcement! Esme is …
19. Swiss Army Man – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – (2016)
Something to Put the Wind in Your Sails Sir/Misses/You Over There Looking Uncomfortble. Some you fine folks will recall one of …
Simulcast Fragment – 710336 – P. Electus – Return to Me
He’s gone again. How many times must I endure this cruelty? How many times will he just disappear, telling me …
Inextricably Synchronically Ablaze
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we …
Poetry in Motion
The next in the Cloud’s library of visual and inspirational delights is a short film by Arev Manoukian called ‘Nuit Blanche’. …
One Thousand and . . .
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехераза́да, tr. Shekherazáda; IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov …
Pegs.
Children growing up in the UK during the seventies were oft exposed to the following poetry and its ilk. I …
