Bard of Bath

The Bard 2000:
Olivia Hicks
~ winning poem

Millennia

by Olivia Hicks

Millennia, like stars, transcend through time and space
    Into orbit. A primeval world came in to being,
    A natural selection and order.

Rocks formed and seas roared and the land
    Became a home for may species.
    Dinosaurs danced and fishes flowed with ferocity
    And gentleness as their time was given.

Sun and moon, in solar silence, a luminous light
    In balance, sustaining the earth.

Man appeared and found his gods through free will and intelligence
    Bestowed through the great evolutionary path.

A special start shines brightly,
    Two thousand years ago, through a Divine Being.

God gave us the planet to care for and love.
    Conceptual minds have, through ages and aeons searched
    For wisdom and truth, through suffering, to find
    The philosopher's stone.
    We hold our hands out to Nature and her many gifts.

The momentum of this last century
    Has encompassed the whole of creation.
    Our privileged human life is our own universe
    Which will perpetuate new seeds into future generations.

Will the trees grow? Will winds blow?
    Will children sing? Will bells ring?

We will only peep in to the next millennium
    When new memories will be born, while the soul
    Wears searching wings in our supernatural realms
    Of light and darkness.

Music of the spheres will play on until the great supernova
    Concludes its natural order.

© Olivia Hicks 1999,
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