The Snow Queen

She glides through her palace
Surveying blood red trees
Lined up like stone sculptures
Her cheekbones are cut ice,
Implaccable, expressionless.

She has wrapped the feature tree
In blue velvet ribbon
Like a dress.
Steely eyes
Wield their power
A click of her heels,
You're out.

© Amanda Derry

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Amanda Derry joined a Creative Writing class, following a breakdown, which played a significant role in her recovery. She now embeds literacy skills into classes that she teaches. Amanda also runs the Facebook Group, I Love Writing.

The Jacket

We
the swell bellied children
the hollow drum,
spiral eyed,
bony ribbed
boys and girls
spitting out flies -
sucking in
nothing
from breasts
empty of hope
know
why the caged bird sings–

Our song
charred to a cinder
is their song -
tweet solidarity
-if not
the jacket wins.

© Bex Tate

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Bex Tate, frustrated with the data driven education system, recently left behind her job as a Kindergarten teacher to spend time writing and pondering life. Writing poetry helps her to try and make sense of the world...as well as giving her the chance to rant a bit!!

Melania Visits the Children of Migrants

She made the effort
to get up and catch a plane.
She wanted to be seen

to care about these children.
Her husband had insisted
they must be caged

away from their parents
despite their screams and tears.
How can I help?

said the compassionate lady
and she told the children
Be kind and nice to others, OK?

She made no attempt to hide
the message her coat displayed
as she turned her back

to board the plane home:
I really don’t care, do u?
She wasn’t thinking about that.

© Sue Norton

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Sue Norton has had poems published in various magazines. She was a prizewinner in the 2017 Rialto/RSPB Nature Poetry competition.

Melania’s Message

As long as U were just a jerk
In Trump tower on the top floor
I was able to make this work
But I can’t stand U anymore

I could manage mean and indifferent
For a life in Manolo sandals
But tearing children from parents
Is an evil I can’t handle

Get Cohen (ha,ha) on the pre-nup
He’ll tell U what U should do!
Hannity can deal with the clean-up
I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?

© Alina Macneal

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Alina Macneal lives in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in Apiary Magazine, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and other anthologies.