Sophia White Poems

Dare I hope to hope?
Is it safe? Is it right?
Am I hoping for nothing
But a black and empty night?
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Spin us a tale, tell us a rhyme,
What happened “Once upon a time”?
Give us a ballad, sing us a lay
Of kings and princes far, far away.
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There’s just something about a forest
That makes the turbulent soul fall still
And listen to the mournful dirge
Of the solemn whipporwhill.
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Words bind me, wrapping around me like vines
And like vines they grow, and constrict, like a boa
And like a boa they hiss in my ear, the most wonderful things.
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This place is now a nest of darklings.
The air is rank with all their lies.
Once it rang with truth so sparkling;
But now, in the storm, truth dies.
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I've made a paper airplane
With wings of Crayola blue
I made it just for me
To fly away with you.
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I loved to look upon him,
The Hunter near the Way.
So strong his arm and long his bow
And so bashful of the Day.
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The sky is bright, the sun’s on the sea
The salt’s in the wind and the wind’s on me.

The world is good, the weather’s fair,
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What I learned in vivid dreams
What I saw in gold sunbeams
What I felt in streaming rain
What I wove in daisy chains
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Sometimes I can be zany-zony orange
Crazy as a loon, Light as Splenda
Popping here and there,
Floating in the air
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