A Literary Arts Journal
Carolyn Percy
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poems
Carolyn Percy is a librarian and freelance writer from Bristol in the UK, who graduated in 2017 with an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University (Wales, UK). Her chief pastime is reading – whatever sounds interesting but with a particular interest in general, literary fantasy and science fiction – but other hobbies include: music, film and TV, and is particularly drawn to stories with fantastical and/or sci-fi elements. Her long-term goal is to be a published author. (twitter: Cfpercy)
Three Perfect Pink Roses (v.2)
Three perfect pink roses
Sitting in a row,
Heads bobbing, nodding
As the girl with the salmon legs
Walks by, head nodding to the beat
Of her phone, green leaves
Like candle flames
Raising their hands to praise the day.
A Treasure Trove of Words (v.2)
A treasure trove of words,
Nouns, adjectives and adverbs
Like rubies, diamonds and pearls,
Scatter them about in a Rubiks rainbow
Across the page,
Don’t matter if they got nothing to say
Besides beauty.
Scraps (v.2)
Scraps, gather them greedy,
stitchin’ them together
To make a whole.
Words darned and lumpy
Smooth the creases.
Find it hard to Rumpelstiltskin,
Conjure gold from air.