AWKWARD DANCE OF PEACE
23/01/2023
As we draw near to the 2023 4 Corners Festival with the theme Dreams: Visions For Belfast, here is a poem that I wrote a few years ago about the problems and the audacious dream of peace making.
Between the bloody dark
And grace’s redeeming light
Between the hate riled gloom
And the rays of forgiveness, bright
Friendships can be messy.
Between the blowing up
And the pieces fixed on landing
Between the bleak black funerals
And the bridegroom standing
Friendships can be messy.
This is an awkward dance
With partners disconcerting
The tender tentative steps
With all our wounds still hurting
Take two up and one back
Move close to hold the seams
Swirl in the suspicious space
To soar in audacious dreams.
Such a poem 😊who wrote it on the whole I’m not a big fan of poetry but I love poets it’s a long story I think they should rule the world 😇frank
Posted by: Francis munroe | 26/01/2023 at 03:58 PM