Living in Limbo

January 14, 2026 ~ my word (s) ~ 1 Comment

I’m delighted to have a third poem published in the Edge of Humanity online magazine.

https://edgeofhumanity.com/2026/01/14/living-in-limbo/

The Hat

October 31, 2025March 31, 2026 ~ my word (s) ~ 1 Comment

I’m really delighted that one of my poems, called The Hat, has been published on Edge of Humanity online magazine.

Please follow the link:

https://edgeofhumanity.com/2025/10/30/the-hat/

The Garden

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 ~ my word (s) ~ 6 Comments

Give me a mutiny of colour

Discordant in harmony

Where pollen drenched bees

Plunge flower heads

©️Liz Mackenzie

Symphony

June 25, 2025June 24, 2025 ~ my word (s) ~ 2 Comments

Drip, drip

Drop, drop

Five, ten, twenty, more

Plip, plip

Plop, plop

Trees whisper, encore.

Birds sing their lilting chorus

As flowers sway

To rain’s symphony.

©️ Liz Mackenzie

Hello again

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 ~ my word (s) ~ Leave a comment

On Saturday, I went to the Hello Again Show at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. This is the story of Neil Diamond through his songs. Neil Diamond was a great favourite of my mum. She had all his CDs and once, when her house was broken into, was more distraught that they’d stamped on, and broken, one of the CD cases than anything that may have been stolen. We played Hello Again at her funeral in 2017. This poem is about how a song can touch us and bring back memories, happy or sad.

Hello again tears start to fall,

cascade to music’s rhythm,

slideshow casts a shadow,

reaches pain of loss

and all the days, the months

years now fall together,

implode to a single song,

hello, again, hello.

The photo is my mum, taken in 2016

Scurry

February 25, 2019March 22, 2019 ~ my word (s) ~ Leave a comment

Ghostly they dance the night sky

screech their moonlit song

scour a city for overfed waste as

tides turn for another million years

©️ Liz Mackenzie

Front Runner

February 14, 2019March 22, 2019 ~ my word (s) ~ Leave a comment

Today, at my creative writing group, we did a short writing exercise whereby the person next to you gave you a word (any word) and you had to write no more than 50 words, starting with “I love you” and incorporating the given word. All a bit valentine’s day, thought I; I don’t ‘do’ valentines day but, ever game for a writing challenge, here is my offering with thanks to Elizabeth for a lovely word.

Front Runner

I love you snowdrop, you peek out when

all is grey and Christmas is over.

You’re a front runner

the prelude to Spring

You don’t announce your arrival with

a fanfare, just shyly say, “hi”.

You are my hope

my dare to dream defender

I love you snowdrop