Tag: Lynn White
Two Poems | Lynn White
Time Passes The pier is still standing but it’s all that remains. No boats will tie up there again. The sea has moved away from here so there aren’t any fishermen to bring in their catch or to hang their rods over the side. The fish have left with the sea and time stands still […]
Four Poems | Lynn White
Afraid Of The Light I am not afraid of the dark. Night time engulfs me, covers me gently with it’s thick darkness, comforts me with its curtains of blackness. I don’t need to hide. It hides me. So I bury myself in the darkness, the good thick subterranean darkness let it cover my face so […]
Four Poems | Lynn White
Melting Away She could still remember the warm days of summer, seaside holidays, times without end. Almost. Tick tock. But now the warmth is too much and time is melting away in the sun. Tick tock, tick tock goes her memory curling up in the heat and dying like a beached whale […]
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 […]
Three Poems|Lynn White
Far Horizons, Distant Dreams Once the light shone so brightly that time and distance stretched for ever, the horizon at infinity strung with the pearls of distant dreams. And in between a hinterland of possibilities just waiting to be grasped. But then, as the light dimmed, time and distance collapsed inwards dragging the horizon […]