Exhortation
By Alan Magee
Poems and poetry and poets
Fall somewhere between
Talking and chattering and
Thinking and babbling –
Continuing undeterred –
Speaking and writing and
Waiting and rhyming and
Chiming themselves into the world
That doesn’t chime,
That doesn’t rhyme.
So, they fall undone,
Unmade, unfinished –
Like air that carries light home –
Taken for granted,
Easily lost,
Easily forgotten,
Rarely held.
Let’s change all that –
We’ve got reason to rhyme.
Alan Magee
Alan Magee is a Primary School teacher, living with his family in Belfast. He has a great interest in all things Literary, artistic, and jazz related. Since beginning his journey in poetry in September 2022, Alan has read his poems at Purely Poetry NI events in Belfast, where his work has been well-received. Alan writes on a wide variety of themes around shared human
experiences, with sensitivity and insight. He had his first poetry published in the Community Arts Partnership Anthology, ‘Compass’ released in May 2023.
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