Festival Submissions Call – ‘The Daffodils Speak of You’ by Megan Fatharly
Festival Submissions Call
We are beyond excited to share with you our selected poets from our ‘Festival’ themed submissions call, ahead of our 2026 Launceston Poetry Festival.
Starting today, we’ll be featuring one poem each day, along with a spotlight on its author. Follow along, and don’t forget to book your tickets to the Launceston Poetry Festival to hear the selected poems read aloud by the poets.
by Megan Fatharly
The daffodils have come again,
spilling their gold across the fields,
bright as laughter,
certain as morning.
I bend to touch one,
petals soft as the hands
that once held mine,
wife, mother, grandmother, friend,
so many names folded into love,
so many years stitched into the quiet
fabric of our days.
I walk where you walked,
through the green hush of the garden,
past the kitchen where the kettle sang,
where your voice, warm and full,
filled every corner like sunlight.
Grief is heavy, but today,
the wind carries only memory,
your stories, your hands in the earth,
your joy blooming like these flowers,
rooted deep, returning always.
So I will not say you are gone.
I will say you are here,
in the daffodils nodding their golden heads,
in the warmth of the sun on my face,
in the way love lingers,
bright and unbroken.
Poet Bio
Megan is a writer and artist making work about memory, loss, and what it means to lose someone slowly. ‘The Daffodils Speak of You’ is shaped by losing her grandma to dementia, and the quiet fear of it happening again. She keeps the language simple, because the feelings aren’t.
Alongside writing, she makes small, text-based artworks, often hand-emboss that sit with similar themes of grief, tenderness, and things that don’t quite resolve. She is interested in the moments we almost overlook, and how they end up holding the most. A lot of her work is about trying to name something that doesn’t want to be named.
Instagram: @printcessmeg