Sarah Flanigan - Poetry Simply Put

No longer a child
and yet not old
No longer shy
still not bold

In between
rich and poor;
good and bad…
wanting more
than my mother had

Full of ideas
and things to do
Feel like paper
in need of glue

copyright 2006

There is quiet
in a crowd
noise in an
empty room

There is strength
in gentleness
there is happiness
in the gloom

Light in the shadows
darkness in the
sun

There is hope
for us all
Every One

©2006

If I live on my dreams
who is to say it is wrong?
If they give me life
and make me strong

For through my dreams
I see what waits tomorrow
I know the joy it brings
and too
I know the sorrow

You may live a lifetime
and never know your dreams
never know that in your heart
lies sweet and wondrous things

To reality you hold fast
thinking what is real
is what will last
but reality changes with each
passing day
it is your visions that remain
your hopes that will stay…

Facing reality
is only facing today…
Knowing your dreams
is knowing the way…

© 2006

Weave your merry spell
Magician!
Send it far
and wide
across this land.
Give back to the people
its magic.
Your magic.

Send it to
the darkest corner
deepest caves.
The lonliest, saddest places.
Bring it forth.
Stir it up well
in your black kettle.
Til it bubbles and brims
spills
over the hopelessness of
this land’s people.

Let it give wings
to the heaviest of hearts
and sorriest of souls.
Let it make again
the music which once abounded.
But is now
a faint echo to those of us
who remember.

Oh Magician
grow bigger
grow stronger.
Send your magic dust
to cover every part
every being.
Let babies be born again
into a world
of form and beauty.
Let them smile with
their first sight of it.

Let us not
the handful of artisans
left on this dusty rock
toil any longer
without hope
or promise.
Make us strong with
your web of knowledge
and light.

Let us help to
lead them out
of the caves of blindness.
Open their eyes
that they might see.
The wonder that is the Game.
The joy that is Life.

Copyright 2006

I was having trouble with various things at the old url, so I’m moving everything over here. Stay tuned.

sarah