#Nina Parmenter

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Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest, revue de poésie, N°12, avril 2024

« Sing Song », Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest, N°12, avril 2024, édition papier et kindle, URL : https://feversofthemind.com/2024/04/24/now-out-fevers-of-the-mind-issue-12-national-poetry-month-2024

Le numéro 12 de Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music célèbre plusieurs grands morceaux de poésie de Fevers of the Mind au cours des dernières années ainsi que de nouvelles contributions : David L O'Nan, HillLesha O'Nan, MS Evans, Scott Thomas Outlar, Anne Paulet (Scripta 21), Angela Kosta, Rachel Coventry, Jimmy Webb, Lorna Wood, Pasithea Chan, Anushna Biswas, Owen Bullock, Robin McNamara. , David Hay, Nina Parmenter, Steve Denehan, Cat Dixon, Victoria Leigh Bennett, Maxine Rose Munro, Petar Penda, Kevin Hibshman, Shobana Gomes, Gayle J. Greenlea, Oz Hardwick, Stephen Kingsnorth, Vicky Allen, Matthew Freeman, Barney Ashton- Bullock, Kathryn Anna Marshall, Tuur Verheyde, Anna Rozwadowska, Hiram Larew, Marie Little, Rickey Rivers Jr, Gordon Lewis, Colin Dardis, Karlo Sevilla, Michael Igoe, Sarika Jaswani, Kushal Poddar, Christina Strigas, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, John Grey, Renee Williams, Peach Delphine, Stephen Watt, Jennifer Patino, Katrina Kaye, Paula Hayes, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Tianna Godsey, Elizabeth Cusack, Khadeja Ali, Charlotte Oliver et Samantha Terrell

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Nina Parmenter, 'A Spell for Motherhood'

Take a mountain. Scale the pink-arsed flanks of it, limb over limb. Find Poseidon. Extract from him a wave and a horse’s hoof. Pluck a tree; kill the grip of it by showing it your thoughts. Make your peace with the grave. Eat apples, all of them. Taste in them the sin of being a woman. Let that smack you in the gut, you deserve it. Straddle the equator. Suck up its spin, take it with you; feel…

[susancondonwriter]

Eat The Storms

Three of my poems are included in the latest episode of Eat The Storms. #Poetry #Podcast #EatTheStorms

Delighted to have three poems included in the latest episode of the wonderful poetry podcast Eat The Storms. This episode, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly, first aired on Saturday 3rd December 2022. So grab a cuppa – or something stronger! – sit back, relax and as soon as you’re ready, click HERE to listen to poems from: Nina ParmenterJack B BedellKerry DarbishireMax O’DonohoeSusan…

[juniro]

Things That Taste Chickeny - Nina Parmenter

[thanatophobia-thoughts]

You think I see no God - therefore I cannot gasp at miracles? In fact, each day I marvel more. You think I see no God, therefore The mystery of an atom’s core Cannot be wildly spiritual? You think I see no God, therefore Earth’s beauty’s all but lost on me? In fact, each day I wonder more. You think I see no God, therefore The warm smell of a forest floor The song of waves upon the shore Or spring’s exuberant décor Don’t fire my philosophy? You think I see no God, therefore I cannot feel morality? In fact, each day I feel it more. You think I see no God, therefore The things I value and deplore Are lesser, as they come from me? It’s true I see no God - therefore My faith lies in humanity, In light, and mass, and gravity - And every day, I marvel more.

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Using form: Refrain; Nina Parmenter, 'Sense'

I am a bag of chemicals with charge for eighty years, I am a gassy mirage that winks as oblivion nears. Around me swill the stars, my thoughts, the gods and insanity, and nothing makes sense but this leaf as it dances, drunk on gravity. I am a pointless voice track on a puff piece of DNA, I am the ooze that awoke and decided to live anyway. Around me swings the void, nirvana and calamity, and…

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Political poem: Nina Parmenter, 'Led by Donkeys'

Political poem: Nina Parmenter, ‘Led by Donkeys’

Donkey, show me your big boy teeth,show me expensive dentistry.Mine are NHS wonky,but you’re a donkey.Donkey, show me your pearly hooves,stomp them down on my two-bit shoes.Mine are M&S clonky,but you’re a donkey.Donkey, show me your government cardriving to where the dollars are.Mine is a wee bit shonky.You’re still a donkey.Donkey, show me your public school,show me your passport to ruin us…

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Nina Parmenter: 'The Quantum Fox'

Nina Parmenter: ‘The Quantum Fox’

Have you seen the quantum fox, the fox in flux, the paradox? His whereabouts is rare, because he’s in his den, and in this box. This hokum locus tends to vex the best of us; the mind rejects the concept of his flightiness as fiction or as foxy hex. But fiction’s just refocused facts –a lens that bends, a parallax.The fact remains that Foxy lacksa fix, til someone interacts. See, should you pry…