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Daffodils
This poem was published in the Dec/Jan 2024 edition of The London Magazine. The daffodils are trying hard To say fuck you to the Berlin...

Bill Roberts
Mar 6, 20241 min read


Old Stone Bridge
We stood there on the old stone bridge As the whirls and ripples of the Danube flew like kite ribbons in the wind Beneath our feet and...

Bill Roberts
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Can’t Sleep
This text was first performed as part of a Slow Stage as part of The Palace Art Residency and is currently being used in Organized Chaos...

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20235 min read


The heatwave from a minibus in the North of Germany.
The trees cause a strobe effect through the bus window. It is, at once, nauseating and cinematic. A premature autumn has come, though the...

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20231 min read


Tender Magic
You described me as tender magic And I called you a list of the most beautiful things I could see in the room A half rolled cigarette...

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20231 min read


Elephant
One elephant A mountain view obscured By a mass of clouds At first, grey, but then white, and silver, a hint of blue. Sat at the end of...

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20231 min read


Touch
I was at his house His boyfriend was too We sat on the sofa And tried to not let our Skin contact Which made it all the more enticing when…

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20231 min read


Whisky
The last swill of a length of whisky. The chime of the glass. The dull sullen thud when it meets the coaster again. That conversation...

Bill Roberts
Nov 7, 20231 min read


Love Letter (poem)
A scrap of paper In the corner of a pocket On a much warn jacket The edges have become Felt. The letters, now indecipherable, In a script...

Bill Roberts
Jan 15, 20221 min read


Party House
Submission for 28 Plays Later The challenge was to take a previous day's text and make it different. CW: Abortion. Lorna sits on the...

Bill Roberts
Feb 3, 20216 min read


House Party
Submission 2 for 28 Plays Later. The theme was around groundhog day. Lorna sits on the toilet, she is holding her head with one hand, and...

Bill Roberts
Feb 3, 20216 min read
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