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Flash Fiction: "Me, S/he and the Pea" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

My skin’s not delicate, nor my thoughts subtle. I’ve lived hand to mouth, rambled many roads and bathed in ice-cold mountain streams. My...

Poetry: "Shoreline Defences" by Ceinwen Haydon

Help me build a breakwater on our beach, a bold brise-lames, like the one we saw in Brittany, when we were still in love with...

Poetry: Weakened by Fault Lines by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

Flash points are omnipresent in our shared lives. You trail crumbs of disruption through our rooms. I fail to meet your impotent, angry...

Poetry: "parry with alacrity, protect soft places" by Ceinwen Haydon

fit sheath over blade charge with one hand stretch wide in sweeping motions slight downward tilt forceful rhythm maintain balance do not...

Poetry: "Redemption"

Out to sea, squalls whip up seahorse waves. On the beach, showers glitter crystal veils in escaped sun rays. Lugworm-casts coil between...

Poetry: Druridge Bay, One Spring Day

A stick-sketched heart survives the ebbing tide. Scalloped lines, curve, swell and taper rolling over hard and soft sand – fresh wind...

Poetry: "Grandmother's Departure" & "Gurfa"

grandmother’s departure voices skim her ears sooth her mind beyond lost meanings and gentle fingers press unpressured love onto her...

Wanted: Men for the King's Navy & Other Poems

Failure I am a snagged stitch – I tug my knitting unravelled to shapelessness I am a blunt pencil – I chew my worn stub taste words I...

Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon: Druridge Bay

Druridge Bay bell notes shimmer hang in the air ring and rhyme and shower shore-wards they ripple out whipped egg-white foam then...

Poetry: "When Pigs Can Fly"

When Pigs Can Fly one day when pigs can fly we’ll be at peace with males ancients who deny we are equal to them assume we...

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