Rhiwbina Living Issue 57
The 15 year anniversary issue of Rhiwbina Living, the award-winning magazine for Rhiwbina.
The 15 year anniversary issue of Rhiwbina Living, the award-winning magazine for Rhiwbina.
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poetry<br />
THE STAR<br />
It's settled<br />
The snow<br />
Woven in<br />
Icy threads<br />
I've never been this cold<br />
How many people<br />
Will die?<br />
Is all I can think of.<br />
Take the glass from your eye.<br />
It's time to go back.<br />
Share heat<br />
Put the homeless' sleeping bags in the dryer<br />
I don't have one<br />
My clothes take a week to dry<br />
Feed them<br />
WINTER SOLSTICE<br />
Heavy boots crunch on crisp grass,<br />
blizzard flakes fall from pink hue sky<br />
as Winter announces its arrival.<br />
Patricia M Osborne<br />
Google your nearest food bank and send them a fiver<br />
Inside old people shiver<br />
Boilers stay silent, no coal fires,<br />
While people in threadbare blankets sleep on their sofa,<br />
How can they survive this winter<br />
We need money to migrate, but we have nothing.<br />
Those alone.<br />
It's when you get too cold, you can't think.<br />
No one wanted you for the holidays, means no one wanted you at all.<br />
You stop trying to call.<br />
How many people will die?<br />
How many people will die?<br />
Jessica Milner<br />
ANGELS IN THE<br />
SNOW<br />
Once so long ago<br />
When I was a child<br />
Energetic and a little wild<br />
I woke up to a sight<br />
Most wondrous to behold<br />
Oh what a wonder<br />
I shouted<br />
“wake up sister mine!”<br />
“Look outside! It’s wintertime!”<br />
We squealed in plain delight<br />
At a sight<br />
so marvellous and thrilling<br />
so beautiful and bright<br />
A blanket of sparkling diamonds<br />
Two young girls<br />
From a country full of warmth<br />
Witnessing<br />
for the first time in our lives<br />
A winter wonderland<br />
And so<br />
With gloveless hands<br />
Daring, brave and bold<br />
We ran out to the cold<br />
arms stretched out wide<br />
We laughed and cried<br />
In awe of that which stunned us<br />
We spun circles round and round<br />
Until we crashed onto the ground<br />
The two of us now grown<br />
We made angels in the snow<br />
AR Stone<br />
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