You are Here
Once upon a time, there was a bang
A big bang!
And stuff went hurtling all around
And it looked like chaos
Random bits bumped into
Other random bits
As all the random bits
Tried to find where they
Belong
And as bits of stuff
Found other bits of stuff
And joined together
Everything started to settle down
Stuff found its place
Its space
And in the aftermath
This ball of random bits of stuff
Spun in just the right way
In just the right shape
In just the right place in space
Its surface began to shimmer
And wriggle and crawl
And it’s all still a bit random
And stuff is still a bit chaotic
But now you are here too
Where you belong.
Pam Makin, originally from Melbourne, lives in South Australia. A marriage celebrant, she also writes poetry and short stories. She was a heat winner and runner-up at Spoken Word SA’s Summer Slam 2019, and is currently compiling a manuscript of poetry, ‘to get the written as well as the spoken poem out to an audience’. More can be found about Pam at her website here.
Readers’ original and unpublished poems of up to 40 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@solsticemedia.com.au. Submissions should be in the body of the email, not as attachments. A poetry book will be awarded to each accepted contributor.
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