Poetry by Liang Yu-Jing, Matt Hetherington, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Susan Hawthorne

Five poems for Peril Issue 8- Why are people so unkind?

i) Fashion
My teacher gives me a book
about this German bloke,
Marx
who reckons religion
is the ‘opiate of the people’.

EVERY MORNING’S RAINBOW
Written in Chinese by Qi Guo
Translated into English by Ouyang Yu
A red hat
An orange tie
A yellow shirt
A green coat
A black trousers

Poetry by Tammy Ho Lai Ming and Tass Holmes.

gone
she is
a million billion
scattered atoms
each complete unto
itself and I am at peace

Slicing the knot of the ancestors
Diving through the heavens
He came.
Headfirst, warm-wet, amphibian,
He slithered into the light
Sleek with both our blood.

The festival of colour aerates
I wear my attire, original, personal
air the melody , small bells tinkle
music reverberates
flow of my village stream, melody of cuckoo unite
scars of colour in body parts
a new sensation, thousand hearts wave
Life greets
A niche to a perfect living.

rain on glass
a thousand impolite fingers

Two poems – Francais, and Louis De Carne’s Diary, by Adam Aitken.