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16 October 2014

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Alex Pryce

Alex Pryce is currently finishing her final year of school in Bangor, studying English, History and ICT. She has been scribbling furiously for many years and has recently been awarded a National Endowments for Science Technology and the Arts Youth Fellowship. In the future she hopes to study English at university and publish an anthology of poetry.

Ad Astra (To The Stars) by Alex Pryce

I lift my eyes ad astra
As if the enormity
Could fit in the black pin of an eye.

I lift my eyes as astra
And let the starlight trickle past
As time travels, and light bends and breaks.

I lift my eyes ad astra
As shooting stars scar the night
And the moon crawls towards morning.

I lift my eyes ad astra
When the orange scares the night
And stars, shying away, become no more.

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