George Beddow

George Beddow

MALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING   His personality resists assimilation and is submerged by the wave of my birth certificate’s watermark.   In the convex glass I am perplexed by his self-portrait’s dissimilitude – but then remember mother breastfeeding...
Charlie Jones

Charlie Jones

Barbers   iya love how are you? whaddayer having? four on the top and on the sides a two, alright how do yer want yer neck square? there how’s that? that’s eight pounds then love thank you there’s yer two aw, see yer soon! iya love    © Charlie...
Antony Johae

Antony Johae

Cousins’ Last Waltz   We were dancing. He took the woman’s part, I the man’s. I felt indifferent to the dance.   When the music stopped My hands sagged to my sides. He said: “I’ll not dance with you again.”   © Antony Johae     Scenes at a...
Nisha Bhakoo

Nisha Bhakoo

 Arc   I have met you many times before but I still have questions. Your pretty generosity evokes my curiosity about your boldness. How do I explode past shyness? You compliment my eyes, my leather skirt, the lotus tattoo on my right foot, but first and most...

introducing morphrog19

morphrog 19 has poems by the following poets. Please click on the poet’s name or use the navigation bar at the top of the page. Robin Houghton Jacquie Wyatt Antony Johae Pauline Rowe DJ Tyrer David Olsen Anna Milan Nisha Bhakoo Rodney Wood ME Muir Marek...

Contributors to morphrog19

Contributors to morphrog19 Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North.  His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port...