There’ll be a day, hopefully not long from nowwhen families will be reunited with cuddles and kisses not pixels on screens or live streams but people, together and our hands will heal. Friends will sit side by side, laughing as we occupy our favourite spaces againsigns saying 'temporarily closed' and 'hope to see you soon' on the doors will go, and [...]
Category: Poetry
Shapeshifter
there are times when I truly believethat I have always known who you areyour tastes, your desires, your dreamsa triangle of coloursthe person whose refection I seein square window panes and puddlesand in the hearts of those I lovebut the truth is that you, my dearyou are ephemeral and forever renewingas fresh as the first [...]
The sky
Lately I've been spending a lot of my time looking upThe skyThe vast cavernous rooftop that is endless and ever changingIt's a connection between me and and the worldA path from me to youA deep pit of blue, peppered with stars, stretching far and wideA cocoon in which the earth restsA way inThe way out [...]
Keep that fire burning
They said I should sell myself,But I didn't know how.Writing reams, connecting seams of a future undone.By societies ideologies and an unknown desire to be successful.To make money, to be good.Like I know I should be, but it's hard to see why a girl like me,should rise to the top; be the best?I've seen doting [...]
STACIE LEE BENNETT-WORTH 