“I’M THE QUEENOF EMPTY PROMISES”
In ‘Confessions of a Recovering Addict’, Dana W explores the subject of friendships lost along the road to recovery.
OUT OF TIME. BY SIMON MEASURES.
Out of Time is another powerful piece of poetry by Simon Measures. Hot on the heals of a triptych of work this month. Enjoy.
AN ATTACK FROM WITHIN.
It attacks like a forked lightning strike, attacking the outer skin of the human body to start with, major blood boiling…
TURNING PAIN INTO POETRY.
So, I’ve been in recovery for 15 months now. After years of drinking irresponsibly, then unhealthily, and finallly downright dangerously and potentially deadly.…
DAN MACE – #I’MWITH YOU
#ImWithYou Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Dan Mace is a twenty-first century director and filmmaker. With a sensitive style,…
YELLOW.
The darkness comes on like shadows in the morning sun. Light evades my deepest sanctuaries, the place that no one else knows. Yet…
USER.
The first I noticed was 4.22. I’d been up all night, I’d been using you. The second was early, just as I woke.…
NOT ALONE.
Blackened walls. The grey excess. Spiritually lost in painful death. Dishevelled and broken. Alone and scared. Sinking at pace on my own, out…
THE JOY OF SOBRIETY.
We are all escapees from the slavery of addiction, Lager, wines and spirits our previous predilection. Forgive us when our words stray into…
FEATURE: THE DISLEXIC POET
Mooching around 5Ways yesterday it was a pleasure to meet The Dislexic Poet, aka Chaz Hudson, who was scribbling away upstairs as part…
INSTEAD I PRAY
Yes lots to say to you, Days you don’t know you get me through Thinking sometimes I was go-ing to self-harm But you…
THE RIVER.
Through the humid Air the river roars. Memories tumble, eddy and role. The cries of people having fun catch the breeze In here,…
ON LEAVING.
The last thing I saw was the blue, the green and the clouds. The last thing I heard was the wind, the cows…
AFFECTED BY HEROIN.
My Guts Twist And Turn, Guilt Racks My Brain, If Only, If Only, My Constant Refrain The Baby I Once Held, My Son,…
