Long listed for the WRITE ABOUT WALKING AND LISTENING competition run in July & August 2021
Walk, meet the world on its wandering terms, answer an ever-yearning to find your place. In the dark bat-like, craving echoes to know each obstacle's position, I take a step, but cannot hear it yet over the low drum roll of traffic, endless polluting prelude to magic that fails there’s no great car democracy do you remember them gone, the street ceasefire when, to beat a virus, people put their vehicle weapons down then I heard children talking saw them chalking pavement rainbows heard overhead the joy orchestra of birds and my footsteps sounded again like a friend window tapping for attention each stride the world calling, waving back
Itching to write something yourself? Submit a piece to our Shorelines project, and invite your friends to read it aloud, for a chance to win a prize. Join one of our creative writing workshops or keep up to date with all our competitions by signing up to our curated newsletter here.
Read more from the Long List of stories submitted to the WRITE ABOUT WALKING & LISTENING competition. Listen to winning authors read their work at a showcase event on Sunday 26 September 2021 book here.
Buy WALKING – the limited edition illustrated chapbook anthology of 15 poems and stories inspired by walking and listening €4.50 + p&p
All proceeds go to support future Sound Walk Septembers
Loved the joy orchestra, cars as weapons, and the last few lines tapping on the window. A poem full of noises, sound sensations.