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The Wombwell Rainbow is putting out a call for 7 unpublished poems and short prose on your local neglected water courses. What history, geology, industry has effected these streams, becks and rills along their routes? Dig deep. Discover their hidden histories. Please include a brief prose description of the neglected watercourse and an up dated … Continue reading Call Out For 7 of Your Unpublished…
Bio: Dr. Patrick Lodge currently lives in Yorkshire but is an Irish citizen with family roots in Wales. His work has been published, anthologised and translated in several countries and has read, by invitation, at poetry festivals in England, Scotland, Ireland, Kosovo and Italy. Patrick has been successful in several international poetry competitions and was … Continue reading The Wombwell Rainbow…
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Moon kissed, Earth wrought, Vision drunk: https://bottlecap.press/products/wrought Karen Pierce Gonzalez is an intuitive, award-winning international artist and writer in the San Francisco Bay. Currently she is ‘Sanctuary’ feature artist with two installations, BirdSong and Women of Babylon, at Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery alongside international artist James William Moore, and also has…
GPH30 The Cleethorpes Rock Company MO30 FHP30 FHP30The Wolf WithinIn the hour before dawn,When nothing has decided itself yet,Something shifts under the last of the darkNot broken,Not afraid,Only waiting.From the tangle of what came before,The wolf lifts its head.It has learned the shape of harmAnd lived through it.Its paws find the ground again,Sure of it.It … Continue reading Welcome To The…
FPH29 GPH29 The Arcades At Night MO29 GPH29 Neon Seduction When I was a kid, dragged past these places by parents eager to protect, all I wanted was to succumb to the beckoning allure of neon bright, bingo calling, coin clashing buildings where esoteric youths stood waiting, cigarettes hanging from limp moustachioed lips as they … Continue reading Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic…
MO28 FHP28 GPH28 Prizes FHP28 PANIC Pulse detonates beneath my ribs, a wild drum. Air thins, sharp as broken glass, every colour tilting, too bright, too close. Nerves ignite like struck matches, sparks racing my limbs, urging flight. I am a figure in motion, all spirals and fire, outrunning my own heartbeat. Chaos blooms inside … Continue reading Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic…
GPH27 Inside The Arcade MO27 FHP27 GPH27 In the Noise, You Anchor Me The lights strobe trying to outshout my heartbeat, all neon teeth and clatter, a carousel of colour too fast for the me that wants quiet. Everything is too much tinny music looping, the plush toys staring with stitched-on joy, coins skittering over … Continue reading Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026…
FHP26 GPH26 MO26 GPH26 Where Beauty Goes Quiet The sky blushes, but softly, as though colour has grown shy. Lavender fades into ash, rose into a muted sigh. The sea moves without sparkle, a hush instead of a hymn. Waves fold themselves inward, their brilliance worn thin. The pier stands like a memory of something … Continue reading Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026…
MO25 FHP25 GPH25 Speedboat ON THE PROMENADE WITH YOU (MO25)Surely everyone can feel how my soul singswhen I am walking by the sea with you.Us on solid ground flanked by the vastness and a horizon that promises forever.Sharp colours,clean air.You.I am completely in love. Sue Finch Fhp 25Cyclops loveYou may only have one eyebut that … Continue reading Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic…
