Weighty matters
Adjudicator Meg Marsden highlights the poems which exhibited irresistible pull for her
Meg Marsden
POETRY COMPETITION WINNERS
1st prize Winner
SWEET GRAVITY
by Christopher Pearson
Celestial planets track you as I write praises to your heavenly body. You gleam, eclipsing every other star in sight and I lie basking in the nebular stream
of your clear light. You test my sanity by looping lovely orbits round my soul, attracting me with your sweet gravity, drawing me to you, making my life whole.
You stretch out overhead your milky way. Your crescent moons engulf me in your tide. We wax and wane together night and day two planetary travelers side by side.
The Universe is vast; we’re lost in space, But I find joy and solace in your grace.
Hear the word gravity, read it, say it and there is for most of us just one name that springs to mind – Isaac Newton. And yet apart from the fact that he was a brilliant scientist who explained the theory of gravity and that it, probably erroneously, had something to do with an apple falling from a tree, it is a subject which for the non-scientific of us remains somewhat of a mystery. But leaving equations, calculus and complex physics behind, it didn’t stop many writers entering this WM subscriber-only poetry competition from approaching the subject with their own energy, gravitational pull, humour and enthusiasm.