Day 7 of the #WombwellRainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026.

Cautious hope, it's still hope. It's something I allowed myself to have.

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My entry for the Day 6 of the #WombwellRainbow Ekphrastic Challenge.

A modern retelling of the story of Perseus, but the results are dire and deadly. It's also my retelling of how my ab*ser changed me in the worst way possible.

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Day 5 of the #Wombwellrainbow #Ekphrastic challenge.

Here is my piece,

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(And maybe even write one of your own)

Day 5 of the #WombwellRainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026.

A self portrait.

You see who I am vs. how I see who I am.

Inspired by the album title 나는 나를 통해 우리를 보는 너를 통해 나를 본다 (I see myself through you who see us through me) by Madmans Esprit.

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Check out the #Wombwellrainbow #Ekphrastic challenge guys.
Loads of great poets writing one piece for every day of April.
(And me as well...)
This was my piece for the 1st

The picture of the pier reminded me of a place I used to often visit with my gran when I was younger.

gelid ripples of the rising tide swirl slowly around rusted struts that rear above a grey-brown sunless sea they bear aloft a child of Aphrodite’s isle where long-remembered sunshine gleams in bubbles on the sizzling surface in a row of deep-fat fryers (extra-virgin olive oil deflowered sixty years ago) should the lovely child of Zeus set dainty foot upon this snowy beach she’d shriek and leap back to her shell and leave the pleasures of the winter coast to those of us whose frames are hardened to the eastern winds that saw our birth

GPH01: "Winter’s Snow by Cleethorpes Pier"

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Ekphrastic Challenge 2025. Day Three. Please join Debbie Ross, Matt Guntrip, Saraswati Nagpal, Alan McGinn, Anish Gupta, Phil Hyde, Donna Faulkner, Francis H Powell, Judy Smith , Sheikha A, Rituparna,... SK3 SEB3 JZ3Jz3Eyes of DefianceNight gathers at her feet, murmuring secretsonly the forsaken understand.She moves like prophecy, carved from silence,a shadow against the neon glow of a world unrave…

Although it's hard to squeeze the time 😰 I'm enjoying the #ekphrasticchallenge set by #wombwellrainbow
There are some fab poems being put on the site so check them out..
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