Poetry Pillar Prize Winning Poems 2023 Dreamscapes

By Eva Garayalde

There’s this recurring dream of mine of endless suburbs and grey skies a sea of cargo ships and car rides bitten nails and nuclear tides my world through fear tinted glasses.

In another dream, its antithesis of wolves in the woods and eagles crossing thunder-clad skies Of towns fading to ruins, time taking its due and nature our debt.

Different ends, lives in different eyes shaped in all by humanity’s fickle touch Power slipping from grasping hands like sand in an hourglass, meanwhile meanwhile the world is burning and I am tired of this game of political politeness. Nature will not wait for us to win.

United in Bio-diversity

By Eilish McDonagh

Come now let’s sing our song.

Let every note be in tune, every instrument work in perfect harmony.

Let’s sing our song for the future now, Where all system weave as one, let every creature big and small listen to the call.

Let the gentle music trickle into the sea and spread across the land.

It’s time now, we must sing together, all as one, cease to divide.

Set aside the judgement and the blame now, for that will do no good.

Let’s down the tools and start anew and walk as one, side by side.

We are her and she is us, coursing through our veins.

Come now, let’s sing the song of the future. Let’s sing to the heartbeat of the drum, the heartbeat of mother earth. She is calling us now, to work as one, united in biodiversity.