Tag: Poetry

  • A Mother’s Heart is a Strange Thing

    A guest post from Marcia Miral. A mother’s heart is a strange thing. It holds a newborn in its arms, and it comes close to bursting from all the love it discovers it can hold. The newborn grows, tentatively exerts its limbs, and finds out that they are frail. The mother’s heart comes close to […]

  • Poetry Begins At Home

      by Cristina Montes. My favourite parts of the movie The King Speech are when the character Lionel Logue recites passages from Shakespeare and asks his sons to guess the plays where the passages come from. These parts remind me of the home environment wherein I grew up. While my parents did not do the […]

  • In silence she treads