Keeping with the Wigan Pride theme from the week before last, I’m going to showcase a poem which has certainly been one of my most successful. It came first place in TYWI’s Pride competition in the poetry category, and it’s going to be featured in the digital Wigan Pride 2021 content (although it was recorded in 2020, so I look… quite different!) as well as being published in a couple of other places (such as in Our Paused World!), so let’s add to the list and highlight it here as well!
Fields
We idly wander down beaten paths,
a fickle sun gracing our skin with heat.
The air is filled with birdsong, laughs,
as we live out these days on repeat.
Blades of young, green grass sway,
rippled by fingers we cannot see
while we chatter from two metres away;
his smile is beautifully curved in glee.
But my thoughts often stray to them—
those who loved, those who fought,
those who dared to condemn
a world which had been wrongly taught.
Fear doesn’t accompany this boy by my side
and, in time, I will hold his hand in mine.
We can explore a picturesque world with pride,
passing meandering fields under soft sunshine.
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Oskar Leonard 