Anthea Slade

Don’t you try to unsettle me
I can see through to the other side
Don’t try to demean and cancel me out
I will rise again like the Phoenix

Don’t you try to put me to disgrace
and line my …

She rhymes with ‘he’ ‘tree’ and ‘me’
She is real and she is raw
She is beauty at the core
She is courtesan, amazon, madonna and mother
She is throughout history considered ‘other’
She hurt…

No is not yes
No is not sort of
No is not kind of
No is not maybe…

No to mind games that devastate sensitive brains
No to power that intimidates tender hearts
No to subtext that does no…

Rapunzel’s heart beat with extreme excitement, never before had she been so close to such a gallant knight. His eyes, brown and intense drank her in. She could feel the pull of his desire conne…

Once upon a time there was a creative
little girl who played with her boy and girl dolls
making stories of love and romance
where the boy doll chased the girl doll
and wooed her through his…

Waiting.
Embers of desire spark.
Smouldering.
Lush thoughts…
sweet feelings
that do not allow rest.
Body memories tingle
as his body is imprinted on her forever.
Aches.
Imagining lip…

She is to him the most precious gift
She is the beat of his heart,
the beam of his moon,
the shine of his stars
and the ignite of his passion.

He shows her that she
is the ocean to him…

Dreaming of him
makes her feel beautiful
Seeing his image
in her minds eye
Filling in the detail
the line, colour and form
He takes shape in line first
and shading of light and shade sec…

Her crystal blue eyes sparkle
with the verve of life
reflecting the gentle rawness
of her journey that has
sculptured the woman she is now.

Her sensual lips quiver, vulnerable
with t…

She is nice
She is kind
She is subtle
She is compliant
She is nurturing
She loves so much
She is sweet…
Oh the feminine beauty we all know,
we all love.
That intrinsic beauty that
…

Alone now.
No one here.
You left like a thief in the night
while my body was still trembling
from where you had been.
A Red Rose on my pillow
is all that was left to remind me
you had b…

Her body tilts back into him
opening her breast to the universe
She reveals an open heart
in order to be close
She risks raw
to reveal what is true

If she falls will she be caught?
Sh…

Captivated by the way your eyes
focus and see me
Delighted that you are present
here right now
Ignited by the feeling that you hold
my heart in your tender hand
Inspired by the depth
and…

Brilliant Plath disappeared in her Bell Jar
Intense Vincent Van Gogh was labelled insane
And when he cut off his ear they cried he had gone too far
They cut poor Frances Farmers emotion out …

Sadness is shy.
She bites at our hearts
and tugs at our minds.
Sadness stops us
and makes us feel.

Our blood bursts with sadness.
Makes us fall within our essence.
Sadness is the seed …

I had a dream sublime
that danced across my mind
I saw giant flowers in a garden tower
above two lovers dancing,

There was sun flower
yellow and gold
Filled with joy amplified
full of …

Don’t come near me unless you want to be disrupted.

I will:

Upturn a cliche and write it to a new form
Eradicate generalisation and turn it specific
Challenge a belief system if your fa…

‘It’s all over for us’
Two 40 something women in my class cried…
‘No it’s just beginning’ I replied
‘Your 40’s and 50’s are the best years of you life’
I echoed the words of my 75 year ol…

A sand fly, large and black, landed on Dylan’s red nose and stung him. He slapped his nose. ‘Ouch!’ He shook his white hair, the colour of the sand he sat upon and looked out on the flat barr…

Her mind incisive and fast
Her strength a mountain
Courage her middle name and her last
She taught me so much
My mother pragmatic from the start
Me philosophical by heart
When as a child…