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I’ll tell my stories. My life stories. My rememberings, meanderings never written down, but taken in for telling. Waiting now to be put outside again. I’ll tell my stories. I’ll put the inside out. See if I can find my lost past self and hold it still for a snap shot to be taken. But my dream stories, were never outside. They’re the secret ones. Unrevealed staying inside.
Maybe later I’ll tell my dream stories, let you into them, put them in the mix. Let you get lost in there, as I did. And then all of you will see all of me, maybe. Later, there’ll only be my stories. I’ll be part of your stories then. Or will I be lost, still lost. Lost in them.
About the Author
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/
We perched together, dug in roots that reached but did not intertwine for so long to each other
That the first hint felt like failing, felt like too many trials rushing in,
But they were groundwater quenching parch thirst, clearing the throat for what came:
Brilliant laps of sunshine that didn’t waste themselves turning our leave a brilliant flash shade
Of green-blue crashing off the sky we looked to and dreamed of how to float if only there
Weren’t these tangles that kept us tethered to ground.
But, then, sometimes,
We felt it was good to be just where we were with nothing else
But the memory that we were once so solitary so unringed by oaken time.
And now had a perfect spot to shade each other.
About the Author
Carter Vance is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada currently resident in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His work has appeared in such publications as The Smart Set, Contemporary Verse 2 and A Midwestern Review, amongst others. He was previously a Harrison Middleton University Ideas Fellow. His latest collection of poems, Places to Be, is currently available from Moonstone Arts Press.