Category Archives: Prose poetry

Undercliffe Cemetery – a prose poem

Posted on 8 March 2023 by Terry Wassall

The monumental gates are broad. The pillared span admits respectable citizens, the high and the low, captains of industry and the foot soldiers; the wealth makers of money and markets, the wealth creators born to necessity and toil. The gradations … Continue reading →

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Woman

Posted on 7 March 2023 by Jackie Parsons

By the time I was born She’d already lived through two World Wars And had false teeth and grey hair I saw her often and ate a mountain of her blackcurrant jelly and coconut pyramids But it took many years … Continue reading →

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CHOCOLATE CAKE and ATOM BOMBS (or Less Bombs, More Cake)

Posted on 7 March 2023 by Jackie Parsons

Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer diagnosed with tuberculosis Moves to the high desert country of New Mexico to recuperate. Two months before the US enters World War II Franklin D Roosevelt approves the development of the atom bomb And is of … Continue reading →

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Memento Mori

Posted on 23 March 2020 by Cate Anderson

A prose poem performed at the Leeds Lit Fest in March 2020. Inspired by a photograph of an abandoned house, the piece is about ageing. How, when we are old our memories become our sanctuary. Walk with me through this … Continue reading →

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