Category Archives: poetry

Truisms

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Hatred shared is never hatred halved. The blood of an enemy will not cure anaemia of conscience. Suffer the little children never meant to  sacrifice them. The mortality of another will never lessen our own. The immortality of another will … Continue reading →

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To count them

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

A meditation on verses from Psalm 139

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Labour

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

In which we breathe in solidarity with the breathless. In which we groan in harmonic relationship with the suffering. In which we dream in creative union with the author of life’s manifesto: decrying death, deploring despotism, denouncing the cynicism of … Continue reading →

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Fire

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Storm that breaks the sealon the dome that holds the watersof the heavens apart from watersthat brooded life into creation Storm that breaks the heateven as fire is splitting the sky,falling to the ground wrappedin quenching rain Mirrored against the … Continue reading →

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Heart/broken

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

I said I needed to reflect on it. If we’ve met, you know that means poetry, the *word* that tells me more of what it means than I tell it … Continue reading →

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Bread

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Bread

Who, in the night,
would give their neighbour stones
and say, “Here, make bread.” Continue reading →

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Mire

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Save me, O God;I am sinking in deep mire,and there is no firm ground for my feet. I am not getting out the same wayas I landed in this predicament,ensnared by gravity and half-digested decay,trapped in the peat bog where … Continue reading →

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Who is my neighbour?

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Unseen in the shadow of the story, a young cub of the mountain watching the value of love lavished like oil, profligate pity; following at a distance to see if kindness was really worth the weight of stolen gold

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Our Mother of the cocktail bar

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Under the stairwell of the cocktail bar the hooded figure lays out objects of everyday ritual: teaspoon, lighter, tourniquet. Behind the bar an ersatz courtyard paved with astroturf,  foxgloves painted on the wall,  purple digitalis for the broken heart. From … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

Including words from the original Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe The very Earth is heaving beneath the weight of war. Fire consumes and leaves no food for the rest of God’s creatures; lead pollutes the soil, the seas, the … Continue reading →

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