Still Shining
A Ponder Savant regular, Lynn White, has impeccable poems to shower over us on this lovely Friday! If you haven’t seen her work before, now is a great time to rectify that and see what you’ve been missing!
Above It All
Sometimes
I need to be out of the fray,
above the drama
and the darkness,
look down on it all,
be part of the scarlet sky
and the jagged skyline.
Sometimes
I will climb so high
that I’ll have no way back,
no wish to go back
only to stay
above it all.
First published in Visual Verse, April 2018
Joining The Dots
She saw the night sky as a join the dots puzzle.
She was an expert
far better than the adults
who could never work them out.
They told her that these formed a plough
and those a bear, well two bears,
Great and Little.
She couldn’t see it.
They were quite wrong
she knew
the stars
were glittering cairns
pin point sharp
marking the pathway to the moon,
to Venus,
to the sun
and beyond.
You just had to join the dots
and follow the paths
to find your way
to paradise.
First published in Scrittura, Summer 2019
Only Dream Harder
If you dream hard enough
you’ll find castles in the air,
or build them.
If you dream hard enough
you’ll find secret cities
under the waves
ruled over by a fishy king
with his beady eye on you
as you walk on by.
If you dream hard enough
you’ll find unicorns
and ride them across the desert
to discover lost oases hidden there
amongst ancient cities
once in ruins
now recast
in shimmering perfection
by harsh sunlight.
If you dreamer harder
you’ll rise above the waves of sand
which threaten to engulf you,
float in the sunlight
instead of being buried
head first.
It’s all possible
if you only dream harder.
First published in Event Horizon, Issue 6, November 2018
Artist:
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes.
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