New poem:

The Change Has Already Begun

 

 

I dream of danger, wake up in danger.

I smile, though I know I should frown.

Strange red clouds are patrolling the sky

And the sun will no longer lie down.

 

Café customers have taken first sips

of a brew that’s becoming too strong.

The morning trains are jammed to the doors,

and the journeys are taking too long.

 

Children in schools open books up anew,

but all teaching has long since been done.

A new kind of sports day is coming our way –

where the race has already been won.

 

Media swear truth on their bulletin hour,

yet the news on the web has been spun.

I look for a sign that something's to start,

but the change has already begun.

 

 

Stuart Larner

 

First published by DODO modern poets.

For a video of me reading this go to:

https://dodovidpoets.blogspot.com/2022/06/virtual-dodo-9.html

I am the seventh entry on the July 2022 list, in edition DODO NINE