Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Kimberlee Stirling.
Maelstrom
There’s a collective storm brewing
the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Words that whispered through our minds
are on news feeds for all the world to hear.
The cacophony cuts like a knife,
interrupting peaceful dreams
and guiltless sleep,
driving us from sylvan glens
to roam among the brambles,
life’s blood dripping scarlet
upon the thirsty ground.
Hope is all we have left,
a refuge, burning bright,
the eternal flame of a single candle
chasing away shadows
in the eye of the storm.
Kimberlee Stirling (anotetohuguette.wordpress.com) is a West End resident and blogger, who writes a post each week on the “beauty and nature of our small corner of the world.”
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