Youth, by Rosalind Adam

Messiah, by Ernst Neuschul (Czechoslovak Republic) 1919.

Youth 

The symmetry of sunbeams
across angular mountains
that hypnotic manic stare
 
finger on fourth chakra
body proud yoga honed
the conceit of youthful talent
 
before Juden war Verboten
before the daub of swastikas
before the last train out of Prague.

Rosalind Adam

Rosalind Adam is a Leicester girl, born and bred. She has had three children’s books published, including The Children’s Book of Richard III and her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies. In 2018 she won the G. S. Fraser poetry prize and was awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at The University of Leicester.