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Poetry fans, it's my pleasure to feature the gorgeous lyric poetry of Ellie Roseveare. Ellie writes from Denver, Colorado (USA) and is active in the poetry community online. Please enjoy her two poems, "I am my own growing garden" and "I am still afraid of the dark." Thank you, Ellie, for sharing your words with us! I am my own growing garden often I felt like a wayward hydrangea bush overgrown and creeping over fences I wasn’t supposed to climb I needed a gardener to keep me kempt and confined water me when I wilted and prune away the ugly parts of me lately I realized I am my own gardener and the growing garden too the stamen and the pistil of every bloom pollinated, carried away taking root anew I grow wherever I please I am still afraid of the dark I’d like to walk with the night like we were lovers with my hands free to hold not with my keys clutched between my fingers or hypotheticals in my head like if I am attacked, would my dog bite to kill? I’d like to walk wine drunk and wayward as if being twirled mid dance with my shoulders and legs bare not for purchase like meat at a night market I’d like to stroll, as if in love, as if safe slowly through the lamp-lit streets unafraid of who goes there in the dark  Ellie Roseveare received her Bachelor's Degree in English Creative Writing at Colorado State University. Her junior and senior year, she won 3rd and 1st place respectively for the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship in Creative Writing. Now, she works as a project manager in Denver, Colorado, and writes in her free time when not hiking and camping with her partner and two dogs.
Ellie is on Instagram @lilacformylovers Friends, you're in for a treat this week with featured UK poet, Lawrence Moore! Please enjoy these evocative poems, "Sleeps in Stone," and "The Fever You Wish to Feel" (which is from the chapbook Aerial Sweetshop, and previously published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal). Thank you, Lawrence! Sleeps in Stone  The Fever You Wish to Feel   Lawrence Moore writes poetry from a loft study overlooking Portsmouth where he lives with his husband Matt and nine mostly well behaved cats. His poetry has been published by, among others, Sarasvati, Pink Plastic House, and The Madrigal. His chapbook Aerial Sweetshop was released by Alien Buddha Press in January 2022.
Follow him at: @LawrenceMooreUK Friends, what a joy to feature Pushcart-nominated Irish poet, Rhona Greene. Please enjoy her beautiful words in "Shiny Distant Thing," and "The Sky Road Home." Be sure to learn more about Rhona by checking out her full bio below. Thank you, Rhona, for sharing your heart with us! Shiny Distant Thing  The Sky Road Home   Rhona Greene is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer from Dublin, Ireland and an avid poetry fan. She is published in several Black Bough Poetry editions, was shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award and her poem in Afterfeather, gave the edition its name. She is the featured prose writer in The Storms Journal Issue 2. She appears in Sarah Connor’s Advent poems and has read for Annick Yerem’s annual Advent project and "Eat The Storms" Poetry Podcast.
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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