Robert Balfour is a published poet in literary journals in the USA, Australia and South Africa. He believes that the balance between creative and scholarly work is complimentary and important.
No Consent Poetry Journal by Robert J. Balfour and Vanessa Lynn Neophytou
The vendor’s fruit cones the street into spirals of bananas and plums. A sticking...
Continue ReadingWhat is life? A slow gathering cloud that fills with grief that small speck on the horizon...
Continue ReadingThis room is closed and in the tropics the afternoon air is morning’s regurgitated...
Continue ReadingEat the waffle. Notice the child pleading another. Notice not, as others do, the bin bag flapping...
Continue ReadingWashed-up and out his smell adrift. Driftwood becomes as nothing dry breathing sticks...
Continue ReadingTides of silk shot with gold the shimmer of jogging lycra, glamour not his smell....
Continue ReadingThe texture of your touch or these hands upon your back trace down the paths of words...
Continue ReadingWas there a moment before the joy in your face blotched my skin? Surely there were...
Continue ReadingFoolish are passers by on dirty streets where life is dark and dried like fruit the sky and street...
Continue ReadingThe taste of melon: a texture light and pale yellow sun peeping through slices of veined...
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