Life After Death by Lynn White

Life After Death

They were carefully stacked,

those magazines

“Woman’,

‘Woman’s Own’,

‘Woman’s Weekly’,

all those ‘women’

yellowing in piles.

‘Tit-Bits’ and ‘Reveille’

filled with films

and their Stars

long forgotten now,

hobbies abandoned,

recipes uncooked,

all stashed

as crumpled memories now.

A treasure trove,

line after line

to be read and re-read

like the wrinkles

of a lived in face.

Line after line

recording

the gold

of a well lived life.

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her poetry is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry