Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Light Celebrations


See buffalo herding                                
From every station
Trains can breathe now
Streets are heaving
Red white blue on
Coloured bunting
No one's leaving
Flags unfurling
Unicycle
Roadway clearing
Children hopping
Parents cheering
Collected fears
Have lost their meaning
A flame is fanning
A torch is nearing
Our arms extending:
A celebration
All for one
Olympic nation.




Written for Poetry Jam prompt: Celebration.

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