We are now exactly half-way in the entry period for the Write Out Loud Poetry Competition titled 'Echoes' with only 30 days to go before the closing date

Traditionally, there is usually a big last minute rush to get entries in and some do not beat the deadline

DO NOT MISS OUT! Get your entries in NOW. Detais on the link below

https://www.writeoutloud.net/competitions/echoes

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mother,

will there still be satellites

to guide us to places we

need to go without a map

after the war?

mother,

will there still be social media

so we can all keep in touch

without the need to meet

after the war?

mother,

will we still be free to tap

those little cards instead

of using real money

after the war?

mother,

will we stil...

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the sky is hanging crushed,

under an oppressive dense

heavy morning sunlight set low

above our worried frowning eyes,

‘soleil de plomb’ the French

would say, my mother would

have dismissively complained

by saying it was close, stifling

or just uncomfortable, thus

we are all governed by the

proclivities of the weather,

we should praise it, revere

its caprici...

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