Poetry: Straining For Tomorrow

Cee R.
Mar 21, 2022

‘Fingers straining for tomorrow / Grappling with the edge…’

Poetry graphic. Poetry is in the body of the text.
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Fingers straining for tomorrow

Grappling for the edge

Yesterday keeps hold of my ankles

Pulls back

As I strain forward

Suspended over today

With my feet not touching the ground

You can check out all my poetry in my ‘Poetry by Cee’ list (— for some reason it glitches hugely when I try to embed this list as a link, so text link instead!)

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Originally published on Twitter and collected in this Micropoetry post on my blog, Dora Reads

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr