PinnedMember-onlyAbout Me — Nicola PowysHi — I’m Nicola. I was born in the northwest of the UK and I tell people who ask that I am from Manchester — it just gives me more kudos and is a lot simpler — and I do support Man U. Sixty years later, France is my home. …About Me3 min readAbout Me3 min read
Mar 5Member-onlyI want you to have my life — 2Accepting that change is good — but that we can’t change everything. A prose poem. Who am I? Your average Joe… My family is nuclear — my rhythms are regular. I am Jack’s grumbling ulcer and Pulp’s Common People (with some persistent emotional abuse that keeps me motivated…) I can…Change2 min readChange2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Feb 21Member-onlyBye Meta — We Creatives can do better!How going cold turkey was never easier — It was always on the cards — Meta, charging for its comfortable service of sedation! Here it is — and it couldn’t have come at a better time for artists, writers — anyone with spirit! I am a maker. Like you I live more and more on line — accepting…Authenticity2 min readAuthenticity2 min read
Published in Move Me Poetry·Jan 27Member-onlyPastoral DystopiaA free verse poem A mole breaks the iron earth — cold and immovable as a politician’s reason, Snouts heavy, black night — feels atoms swishing… A rat. A water-rat leaping, salmon-like from a green plain, flooded brown — once, a town… Mole — whole, sightless and snifting — seeking…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Jan 2Member-onlyA Toast to the InternetLet’s hear it for Giving and Sharing at the start of a fresh year! — I received a mail today with my stats for Unsplash — they are healthy, and they got me thinking… I joined the free, sharing site a few years ago. It is for photographers, mainly, to upload their images and allow them to be used, gratis, in return for image credit…Internet2 min readInternet2 min read
Published in Move Me Poetry·Dec 13, 2022Member-onlySelf Portrait with ShadowAdmonition — a stream of conscious ranting — IO ya bastard! Bien sûr girl makes good! Uses the prime of life to reconstruct a ruin — build a fortress, create a home… There she goes, hammer and chisel ready, scraping off plaster — lifting tiles to erase the past -re-plumbing, re-wiring, re-molding the interior of the 400-year-old carapace…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published in Move Me Poetry·Nov 7, 2022Member-onlyShape ShiftingAnswering a spontaneous call to pose on a wall.Freedom1 min readFreedom1 min read
Published in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself·Oct 19, 2022Blood LettingAn inconvenient occurrence among those with a thin skin. — Today bloodletting maybe? Not much — razor on leg — even a delicate touch results in a stream of red running down the bone of my calves’ thinner skin — so vulnerable this stretched veneer, hardly sufficient to hold back 8 pints of the stuff… What if I pressed harder? …Self-awareness2 min readSelf-awareness2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Sep 26, 2022Member-onlyI just can’t help eavesdropping!Stories from (outside) the Studio. I work in a small studio on a pedestrian street and, sometimes, stories come to me uninvited when passers-by stop oblivious just outside my open door and spill their life stories into their phones… For once, this time, I wrote down what I heard because…People3 min readPeople3 min read
