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National Poetry Day Poem

In the run up to National Poetry Day, I will be posting some poems about its theme, Light!

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Enlightenment

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This word is in a dancer’s spring;

paper aeroplanes in flight;

water spraying rainbows;

an understanding within sight;

a feather floating, slowly;

it is needed in the night.

In a field of swaying sunshine

each buttercup holds it – light!

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© Liz Brownlee

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If you would like to read more poems about light, here is a link to a page full of them on the Forward Arts Foundation website.

 

10 Comments

  1. This is so pretty and such beauty in the words

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  2. Ann

    Light is one of those words has so many different meanings. Your poem shows how it spreads its glow!

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  3. Your lovely poem took me straight back 60+ years to holding a buttercup under my brother’s chin!

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  4. Lovely Liz x

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  5. Beautifully expressed, Liz.

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