England, (b. 2001)
agnes
- she traces her finger around the globe
- of pomegranates
- pregnant with
- stolen rubies wonders why
- we fill our bodies with snatched
- souls the spices sing
- arpeggios
- of fire
- push against her teeth
- whisper across the ocean she
- keeps bottled up in
- one eye to their
- motherland of lobster
- suns
- she likes the way the light enters
- the boar’s mouth dying
- on the cusp of
- the apple the place
- where the world
- ends
- its eyes taut shut like
- a new-born just hours before
- running
- across the gaping
- womb of the sky
- that night
- her dreams bleed out on the
- pillow she
- meets her lover
- barefoot.
This poem was commended in the Eve of St Agnes Challenge on Young Poets Network (YPN) in 2016. https://ypn.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]