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. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
After The Earthquake
It needs strength to break new ground
when it’s as hard and solid as
silence.
It needs strength to break
to break the mould and
reform
to pick up the pieces
broken
by silence.
But when the earth gives up it’s power
then sounds can break through.
Beams of light bring colour
so fragile forms can bloom
through the self-shattered soil,
ripping it up
to melt the frozen silence
and so we find ourselves again
both fragile and strong.
Under The Skin
My outside skin no longer fitted me well,
didn’t always represent me
didn't look like I still feel
like I still am.
So I dispensed with it,
wrote it off,
turned it
inside out
and now I’m intact
in the pink
myself
at last
I think.
And therefore I am
the same person
under the skin.
I’m sure I am.
The outside has changed
but inside my skin
I am still intact
in the pink
of myself
as before.
I think
I am.
Fevers of the Mind 