Featured for March 2023
The three chosen Editor’s Picks for March 2023 that will be featured on the Whispers and Echoes homepage for the month are:
Poetry
The three chosen Editor’s Picks for March 2023 that will be featured on the Whispers and Echoes homepage for the month are:
Poetry
For the first half of February, Whispers and Echoes continued to share the general submissions we received when our last submissions window was open at the end of last year. Thank you to everyone who shared their beautiful words, and thank you to those who read them.
Submissions are still closed to the journal at the moment, but I hope to have them open again by the end of the month. Please keep checking back for updates, and thank you so much for your support and patience.
To see what we shared – or what you missed – in February, check out the links below. Enjoy!
Poetry
Once upon a universe I came upon a lass
I wooed and chased her every day and caught her on the grass
She didn’t seem to fancy me and told me to get lost
But I was rather adamant and didn’t count the cost
Her father took exception and went to see my Mum
She shouted rather loudly and smacked me on my bum
The outcome of this saga I’m happy to relate
Is that the lass now fancies me, tonight we’re on a date!
Peter Matthews, a country boy at heart, lives with his wife in the suburbs of Nottingham, England. His greatest achievement is that he has aged fairly gracefully but has avoided growing up. Peter has written poetry from the age of sixteen and blogs regularly at www.pollymermaid.wordpress.com.
Those sweet days unburdened
full of delights, happy hearts
awash in blues, pinks, yellows
are swallowed in satisfied bites.
In the process, our lips become frosted
sprinkled with confetti wishes.
They offer up cupcakes kisses
on those days that seem to be colored
in nothing but gray.
Angela Hoffman’s poetry collections include Resurrection Lily (Kelsay Books, 2022) and Olly Olly Oxen Free (forthcoming, Kelsay Books, 2023). She placed third in the WFOP Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet, 2022. She has written a poem a day since the start of the pandemic. Angela lives in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
The years have been so very kind
despite us having made few plans
It’s often said that love is blind
That may be true in many lands
But not for you and me my dear
Our eyes were wide, we had no doubt
Our love was deep, we had no fear
and that love grew and sprouted out
But now you’re gone and I’m bereft
Our lasting love is all that’s left
Peter Matthews, a country boy at heart, lives with his wife in the suburbs of Nottingham, England. His greatest achievement is that he has aged fairly gracefully but has avoided growing up. Peter has written poetry from the age of sixteen and blogs regularly at www.pollymermaid.wordpress.com.
I picked up a feather that found me
at the side of my path today,
something you would have done,
you never returned from a journey
without at least one, a prize,
your collection ever growing.
.
I picked up a feather that found me
at the side of my path today,
thinking perhaps, you put it there,
so that I could return from my journey
with this gentle stroke of remembrance,
for my collection ever growing.
Britta Benson is a circus skills instructing German, a writer, performer and linguist thriving in Scotland, her chosen habitat since the year 2000. She runs a creative writing group, The Procrastinators, and writes a daily blog, Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland (brittasblog422041504.wordpress.com) as well as her poetry blog, Odds & Ends (oddsends707138946.wordpress.com). She also stares out of her window a lot and drinks far too much tea.
The flakes float like feathers, melodies of silence
spilling over everything: the ground, shoulder’s burdened
onto the pocked park benches. Brush it aside.
Come, sit, pause in the hush, this unknowing.
Tilt your head back, lift your eyes to the sky
face the dark. Remember what it felt like
when you pretended to be asleep, your mother
kissing the lashes of your closed lids.
Angela Hoffman’s poetry collections include Resurrection Lily (Kelsay Books, 2022) and Olly Olly Oxen Free (forthcoming, Kelsay Books, 2023). She placed third in the WFOP Kay Saunders Memorial Emerging Poet, 2022. She has written a poem a day since the start of the pandemic. Angela lives in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
Oft our hearts go where they will
and we are dragged behind them; still
our minds stand little chance of calm,
but hopefully no lasting harm.
It’s just a passing phase we’re told.
As we get older we get bold.
Then love is gentler, softer, kind,
and permanence will still our mind.
We’re blessed to match like hand in glove
Enriched with deeper lasting love.
Peter Matthews, a country boy at heart, lives with his wife in the suburbs of Nottingham, England. His greatest achievement is that he has aged fairly gracefully but has avoided growing up. Peter has written poetry from the age of sixteen and blogs regularly at www.pollymermaid.wordpress.com.
At the end of the day,
I have a question:
Where did my words go,
after I sent them into the world?
Is there a secret spot beyond ethers,
perhaps buried deep in a soul,
where all the lost ones,
that didn’t get caught,
all the lonely ones,
that never quite reached,
all the heavy ones,
that simply fell,
and fell,
keep
on
falling?
Britta Benson is a circus skills instructing German, a writer, performer and linguist thriving in Scotland, her chosen habitat since the year 2000. She runs a creative writing group, The Procrastinators, and writes a daily blog, Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland (brittasblog422041504.wordpress.com) as well as her poetry blog, Odds & Ends (oddsends707138946.wordpress.com). She also stares out of her window a lot and drinks far too much tea.
The three chosen Editor’s Picks for February 2023 that will be featured on the Whispers and Echoes homepage for the month are:
Poetry