Rise Up Rabid Souls.

By Ship Street Poetry

Poets around the world have submitted their dark and raw poetry to produce this stunning anthology, Rise Up Rabid Souls.

The poems reveal cold hard truths about reality, abuse, heartache and calamity, and the healing and growth that follows.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ship Street Poetry
• Release date: Jun 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781922722911

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INTRODUCTION

I introduce to you RISE UP RABID SOULS — ANTHOLOGY When I first came up with the concept of this Anthology, I wasn’t sure exactly what direction it would go as this is another first attempt.

What I did know was that I wanted people to be free to express their pain, darkness and trauma freely without judgement of being told that their story was TOO MUCH.

All of these poems in my eyes hold emotion in their words and are important parts of the writer’s life who wrote them and I feel honoured that they have been entrusted with Ship Street.

I am always impressed by people being real and let’s face it life isn’t always a party and I applaud every poet in this anthology that went out on a limb and bared their soul.

So, I hope that you are also impressed and in awe of the depth and guts to these poems within.

I also cannot go without thanking and introducing Sarah Hall, who is not only a talented poet but has been an amazing judge of poetry and co-editor but an outstanding person all round.

DEBRA MAY SILVER

A WORD FROM THE CO-EDITOR

After purchasing My Rabid Fucking Soul by Debra May Silver, I was fortunate enough to meet Debra in person.

I know now that meeting Debra was not by chance.

Our common interest and love for poetry and writing bonded us almost immediately.

Debra became a huge inspiration to me as she had achieved what I at the time had only ever dreamed of, being a published writer.

Debra told me of her plan to create and publish a dark poetry and photography anthology and possibly needing some assistance with her project. And I wanted in.

Judging and co editing Rise Up Rabid Souls has been a pleasure from the beginning to very end.

Watching this anthology come to life has been the most exciting creative process I’ve ever been involved in.

The poetry in this anthology is powerful.

The writing is full of guts, substance and passion.

Just like Debra had envisioned it to be.

I’m proud and grateful to have been involved as co editor and to also have my writing featured amongst such high quality and talented writers who have spilled their ink, shared their words and laid bare their rabid souls.

SARAH HALL

SHIP STREET POETRY ANTHOLOGY - RISE UP RABID SOULS. - PHOTO BY JOHN HEMMINGS PHOTOGRAPHY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Give Me The People by Sarah Hall

While The Magpies Slept by Daniel Coleman

I Was There by Parker Black

Borrowed Time by Lauren Bronwyn Wagner

The Secrets We Keep by Philipa Murray

My Dearest Shower by Kahlia Sutherland

Scribed Within Stone by Matthew John Lambert

Sandbox by Matthew John Lambert

Red (1) — Breaking Me by Jaime Speed

Red (2) — Breaking You by Jaime Speed

Not A Mushroom by Daniel Coleman

Ode To The Fuck Boys Who Taught Me How To Love Myself by Kathy Parker

Screen New Deal by Dion Farquhar

Heres My Playbook by Dion Farquhar

My Country Is Burning by Nathalie Sallegren

The Art Of Mothers Nurture by Diana Davison

Cruel Narcissists by Val Smith

Dark Grey To Blue Black Display Of Colour by Hannah-Lee Osborn

Slipped by Ellen Shelley

Catharsis by Stephanie J

To The Man by Nathalie Sallegren

To Not All Men by Riya Rajesh

Too Many Fucking Seconds by Heather Andriessen

Escape by Jania Williams

Unsustainable by Jania Williams

Ashes In My Mouth Part 1 by Dianne Jacono

Ashes In My Mouth Part 2 by Dianne Jacono

Desire by Melissa Min

Banana Split by Flow Poet

Cheap Dreams by Hannah-Lee Osborn

Eleven Years Old by Shelly Beamish

Eve Ate The Apple by Kathy Parker

For Her by Parker Black

Banshee by Yasmin Idriss

Who Am I? by Yasmin Idriss

You’re Not Perfect by Paul Isbel

Do You See What I See by Dave McGettigan

Micro Dose by Mitchell Suursaar

Last Night by Ellen Shelley

But A Dream by Riya Rajesh

Close Your Eyes by Gabrielle Christopher

We Are In Truth The Truth We Seek by Gabrielle Christopher

Fragmented Slivers by Karen Richards

Brekkie In Bed With Gaslighting by Alle Lloyd

Enter You Exit Me by Flow Poet

Poor Mans Summer by Eric Laird

The Captain by Luke Timms

Overboard by Jordan Lide

Mayday by Jordan Lide

Foxtrot by Mitchell Suursaar

One Sad Day by Philip H Bleek

Realism In The Burbs by Eddy Burger

Forget The Forgotten by J. Amber

The Smoking Whore by Eddy Burger

Shrines Of The Dealers by Rod Milliken

Stranger by Yara Ueltschi

Weight 1 by Yara Ueltschi

The Water Bearer by Debra May Silver

Lavender Robe by Angie Contini

Mine by Laura Desmond

Lived by E.S. Liew

Love And Hammers by Jennifer Cram

Too Many Fucking Seconds by Heather Andriessen

Hallelujah by Daley Rangi

Who Are We Disrupts by M D West

Perceptions by Andrea Read

The Beginning by Andrea Read

The Uncertainty Principle by Miles Hitchcock

The Wife by Shelly Beamish

Rebellion To Revolution by Jason D. Söderblom

For Me by Jennifer Thal

Stop Sign by Philipa Murray

Ravens Of Fiefdom by Jason D. Söderblom

Memory Foam by Lenora Cole

Sacrifice by Philip H. Bleek

War by Mikayla Marsh

Conservative Hero by Jason D. Söderblom

Monochromatic Monotony by Karen Richards

Haunted by Mikayla Marsh

Transcending by Sarah Undefined

Exit Stage Left by Shaine Melrose

Ozymandias — Untitled 1 by Stacey Valerio

Ozymandias — Untitled 2 by Stacey Valerio

Miscarried by Helena Baird

Unhinged by Sarah Hall

Once I’m Gone by Sarah Hall

Self Doubt by Melissa Min

Love Poems by Debra May Silver

Forfeit of a City by Debra May Silver

Stripping The Art by E. S. Liew

Love Withers And Dies by Tyler Grunge

The Half Of It by Paul Isbel

Invert by Shaine Melrose

Self-Annihilation Is A Worthy Goal by Miles Hitchcock

A Pure Meditation by Jennifer Thal

Yeah by J. Amber

Counting Race by Joe Pascoe

Cartographers Of Othering by Megan J Riedl

Peering by Heather Andriessen

Faith-Crossed Lovers by Nadine Lebde

Just A Preference by M D West

The Dingo And The Moon by Doug Jacquier

Dear Bring Back The Lash Of Burnside by Doug Jacquier

I Can Spell Madness by Jason D. Söderblom

Space by Laura Desmond

This Ends With Me by Tabitha Lean

Lithium by Jennifer Cram

Crack Open Your Chest by Sarah Hall

Kiplings Lament by Peter Roads

Do Not Bury The Dead by Peter Roads

The Wiccans And The Druids by Eric Laird

Swim On by Debra May Silver

Give Me The People

By Sarah Hall

Give me the people,

who have had their souls sliced, their hearts diced,

and their guts ripped straight from

their fucking throats by life.

The ones who charge

into the line of fire,

their bloodied faces

smeared with trauma.

Swords raised, hurtling themselves

through the rest of their days,

with the strength of armoured tanks

fuelled by rage.

The ones, who will never wave a white flag

at their endless internal wars,

because getting up, showing up

and never fucking giving up

is the only way they have ever known.

And if I could,

I would collect these people

all up in my arms and preserve them

behind layers of bulletproof glass

just so they can never be touched

or tainted by dirtied hands

or hurtful words again.

Because believe me they are different,

You can’t see it,

but know,

that they can feel it.

For their damage has seeped

right down to their bones,

and it aches in their chest

and it