Thynne, Lucy

England, (b. 2001)

agnes

  1. she traces her finger around the globe
  2. of pomegranates
  3. pregnant with
  4. stolen rubies wonders why
  5. we fill our bodies with snatched
  6. souls the spices sing
  7. arpeggios
  8. of fire
  9. push against her teeth
  10. whisper across the ocean she
  11. keeps bottled up in
  12. one eye to their
  13. motherland of lobster
  14. suns
  15. she likes the way the light enters
  16. the boar’s mouth dying
  17. on the cusp of
  18. the apple the place
  19. where the world
  20. ends
  21. its eyes taut shut like
  22. a new-born just hours before
  23. running
  24. across the gaping
  25. womb of the sky
  26. that night
  27. her dreams bleed out on the
  28. pillow she
  29. meets her lover
  30. barefoot.

Editor’s Note:

This poem was commended in the Eve of St Agnes Challenge on Young Poets Network (YPN) in 2016. https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/

© Lucy Thynne. Poems.PoetrySocietyhttps://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/ This site is a repository of poetry published, commissioned and celebrated by The Poetry Society. http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/.

About the Poet:

Lucy Thynne, England, (b. 2001), is a poet, writer and editor. She is currently studying English at Somerville College, Oxford where she edits fiction for her university magazine. Thynne is also an Editor at the Oxford Review of Books.

Thynne was a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016, 2017 and 2018. She is also second-prize winner in the 2018 August challenge #1 on prose poetry on Young Poets Network and a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A Museum. She is a winner in the 2015 Young Poets Network Christina Broom and the Suffragettes writing challenge, was commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2015 and the Young Poets Network Festive Feasts, Eve of St Agnes Challenge, and won the BBC Proms Poetry Competition junior category in 2016.

Her work has also been recognized by the Poetry Society, Poem for Europe, the Forward Arts Foundation and the Orwell Youth Prize. She has read at Ledbury Poetry Festival and at the Oxford Literary Festival. [DES-01/22]

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