Adele Cordner

South Wales, UK

Adele’s poetry has been placed in various international poetry competitions including Poetry on the Lake, The Magic Oxygen Literary Prize and The Welsh Poetry Competition. Her poems have been published in Red Poets Magazine and various anthologies including Ways To Peace and Poems For Grenfell Tower. Adele has recently gained an MA (Distinction) in Scriptwriting from Bath Spa University. 

18th April 2020

888

Only a month ago

an Italian number

less than this

had shaken me

to my core.

Lost in 24

small hours.

Our tears

are never

enough.

Yet here,

today,

conditioned now,

this number

sends no shock.

In fact, I find myself

lifted

by a heart beat

of hope

amidst the pulling pain.

The number

has rolled back

from the hilltop

it steadily climbed

on solemn Easter days.

A sign

that maybe,

one day,

just maybe,

life might be reclaimed.