by Jasmine Irving
Image credit: Anna Coughlan
She bursts into bloom
from a wild and furious storm.
Her fire fueled by lightning,
voice powered by thunder
roaring from deep within her belly.
Dark clouds bring hard rain
to help her grow tall
rooting her strong into moist soil.
She has no time to mourn the sun
whilst being birthed by the storm.
When she is finally ready
her mother whispers,
“Thunder lily…
From darkness you came
so you will never fear
the full force of creation and
destruction, you will always
know the wholeness of your
self and that the calm light
of day is not the only source
of nourishment.
Do not forget how you first
bloomed into being
wild one.”
Jasmine Irving
Jasmine is a writer from Newcastle Upon Tyne. She is passionate about travel, sustainability and social action. A decade-long yoga student and recently graduated yoga instructor, she loves to share this practice that originated in ancient India. Previous writing has been published in Mslexia magazine, The Huffington Post, Positive News Blog, YOGI TIMES & The Journal. She also runs her own travel blog called Coeliac on the Road.
Anna Coughlan
Anna is an aspiring comic artist who studied Fine Art at Crawford Art College in Cork, Ireland. She then pursued her passion for comics and graduated from the Comics Studies MLitt course at Dundee University. Shortly after she graduated from her masters, she decided to stay in Dundee to utilise the facilities of the Dundee Comics Creative Space and Ink Pot Studies comic community. She is now living in Edinburgh teaching art to elderly people who suffer from dementia.
Her work is predominantly traditional and most of her work is black and white. She dabbles and hopes to progress into a more digital art style. She loves all things that are gothic, and especially likes working under the themes of horror and science fiction.
