Lighting Lamps
Through long ages church bells
tolled across roofs and over still fields,
and down into the busy streets
with the certainty that the teachings tolled
persisted in the minds of the good,
and the bad, the faithful and the faith lost,
but now as social media defiantly shouts out
new truths and condemns those who doubt
the coming of a more just world, if we are
standing astride the ridge of changing time,
have we acquired the new wisdom to know that
we are not just swapping new lamps for old?
Anthony Wade
Anthony Wade, a Forward Prize nominee, is a graduate lawyer with a Master’s Degree, an Irish national educated in England who also worked in The Netherlands. He has published poems in Ariel Chart, Borderless, Boyne Berries, Drawn To The Light, Dreich, Green Ink, MonthsToYears, Lakeview International Literary Journal, Scrittura Magazine, Setu
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