Lynn White Maybe Maybe // Poetry

 

Lynn White

 

Maybe Maybe

 

Maybe it will end

well

maybe we’ll stay

alive

maybe they will.

Maybe we can’t really see

the things to come

maybe we’re mistaken

and maybe we can’t really hear hate

aimed at strangers.

Maybe we’re still living the revolution

we imagined we made

when we lay down

in the road

when we made a stand

in the streets

when we strangers

made a wave in the world.

But maybe

the unimaginable is real

and it’s all undone

I hope not.

 

 

 

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Fabulous Faubus

 

Soon we’ll be there

back

to those days

when Faubus was fab

when Klansmen were cool

and swastikas were chic not shite.

We’d thought it sorted,

that that history had ended,

that never again would mean never again

and that Governor Faubus would stay ridiculous.

Two, four, six, four

just in time

for the encore.

 

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Music Moves

 

The music of my youth

still plays inside my head

the subversive music of the streets

challenging the surround sound norm

out of tune with it.

Songs of struggle,

rebellion, civil rights,

songs of peace and love

sung in a climate of war and hate

and the hoped for revolution

that seemed so close 

but didn’t happen.

All that is left are the songs

and the young

still breaking boundaries,

timeless and placeless

in tune with changing times

which can be any time at all.

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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 has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award