POEM STARTER

‘All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue.’

Write a poem that begins or ends with this line, adapted from Alice in Wonderland. Don’t feel limited to the themes and images of the book – see where else you could go from these words.

Among the Flowers of the Strange

Poetry

To learn the ropes of sanity

Among the flowers of the strange

Innocence of humanity,

I wonder down the rabbit hole,

Told by the sun I’ll make it back,

No worries, if that is my goal.

I do count on that to be true

All in a golden afternoon,

Under the skies of cloudless blue.

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L Butchart

“There are horses made of shadows, winged with the breadth of nightmares, that poets fly over the chasm of the void… Sometimes… I ride one. [then] Whoosh, like a torrent of night wind, I land, rustling what is there, looking for the light.”