Two Poems | Lynn White
Do You Remember
Do you remember when
the future stretched endlessly ahead,
when the older looked forward
to a contented retirement
and the younger
to all the joys of life and living.
Now the mists are down
swamping everyone
in a gloomy miasma
and the future is closing in
moving closer and closer,
a cell-like structure
of mutating cells.
………………
Shades of Grey
They’re placed together
like a still life by Morandi,
opaque vessels drably clad in multiple shades of grey.
I would have preferred the bottles shiny and green,
like the ten that once stood on a wall
and dazzled the sunlight with their emerald and leaf.
And the little jug should stand in brown and homely contrast,
though terracotta has a certain cool –
you know.
But style is important
and pots in shades of grey have a certain elegance,
but, it’s eloquence they lack.
Greyness doesn’t speak in colour
doesn’t sing or paint a picture,
so I know
it may be no accident
if they fall.
Photo by Tim Johnson on Unsplash
Bio:
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, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Gyroscope Review and So It Goes. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
