This was a question I was recently asked to answer – on behalf of Wenlock Poetry Festival and their search for the second ever Shropshire Young Poet Laureate. It was one of several questions. The answers that I and other poetry lovers gave can be found on
http://www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org/laureate/
Unfortunately I got somewhat carried away – there wasn’t enough room for the selection of poems that I wanted to share with everyone. So here they are now (one at a time because technology is not letting me lay them out as it should !!!)… Thank you poets xx
THE CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES for Shropshire Young Poet Laureate 2015 IS 5pm ON FRIDAY JANUARY 16TH 2015
Masts Gregory Leadbetter
The air is not itself today:
it can no longer rest. The last
free molecule has just been put to use.
Our alpha-waves are butterfly-brained.
Sleep, in any normal sense,
has not been possible here for months.
I carry an egg for safety now.
I came too close the other day:
it cooked in my pocket, good enough to eat.
© Gregory Leadbetter 2007 from The Body in the Well (Glenrothes: Happenstance Press). This poem is reproduced here with the kind permission of the poet.
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