{"id":4076,"date":"2017-12-16T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2017-12-10T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T15:04:01","slug":"neil-creighton-a-beam-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"Neil Creighton &#8220;A Beam of Light&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Neil Creighton<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Beam of Light<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Scoff, you cynics,<br \/>\nyou observers of the here and now,<br \/>\nbut we are only our dreams<br \/>\nso why shouldn\u2019t I,<br \/>\nwith prophets and seers,<br \/>\nfloat out of my darkened window<br \/>\non a beam of pure light,<br \/>\nsoaring high above the swamp and desert<br \/>\nto see, just over the horizon,<br \/>\na new world rising out of the dark,<br \/>\nthat one where justice descends<br \/>\nlike the morning dew,<br \/>\nswords are beaten into ploughshares<br \/>\nand peace, like a mantle,<br \/>\ncovers the glistening earth.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Australian poet,<\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Neil Creighton<\/strong><\/span><em>, is ever the optimist. 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