Poetry Lunch at the South Bank centre

For the South Bank Centre's Poetry Lunch last month during Poetry International.  'Words Apart' were invited to read some of our individual pieces at the South Bank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.

Here some of the photo's:

'Words Apart' with Irish Poet Catherine Brogan (centre, left) and Palestinian poet Sawsan Abu Qare (Centre, right) and Brooklyn based American-Palestinian poet and activist Remi Kanazi

Star-crossed with chains.

We’re bound by this link
Two souls forming as one
Hearts beating in sync
Our love deviant like the rising sun
We’re gifted with knowledge
Tortured by bittersweet fate
Our feelings we acknowledge
Laid out like fresh bait
We’re pawns to this intimate game
Beckoning, consuming our minds
Powerful source with no name
That slowly drinks up our time
No fresh blade can cut these chains
Their marks will be etched onto our skins
Poison running freely into our veins
We may forget, and move on,
But in the end there is no real win

By Ambia Khatun