Remember

if you want to dance for fairies
under a splash of stars

you have to stand table high
and be brave in the dark

or be bent back old
and see night as a friend

for in between,
you say, how foolish

while they smile with the moon
untroubled

John Alwyine-Mosely is a poet from Bristol, England who is new to poetry but not to faeries or myths. Recent work has also appeared in Stare’s Nest, York Mix, Clear Poetry, Nutshells and Nuggets. Ink, Sweat and Tears, Street Cake, Screech Owl, Abbreviate Journal, The Ground, Aphelion, Uneven Floor,The Lake, Morphrog and Yellow Chair Review. His website can be found at  http://publishedpoems.wordpress.com.