MAG Poetry Competition 2009 - search for new poems
About 80% of the participants in the 2009 poetry competition wished their poems to remain viewable on the website. Check these out here:
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Hauptstrasse
Bells tell us to rise
and the shadow of God's hand
begins to move
over the city. It envelops...
I Make Death Omelettes
I am not going to die.
I am not going to die
because I laugh...
Her
May pianists play symphonies in praise of her greatness
May painters depict Venus and Aphrodite in her likeness
May sculptors strive to eternalize the curves of her frame
May scribes...
Hungry Like The Wolf
Roaming like a wild animal in the forest
I am hungry like the wolf
This decadence has eaten away my soul
The rough love that I desire from him and him...
Colours in a Void
brain dead dozing
thousand mile stare
scattered thoughts composing
I wish I didn't care...
Smoke Cloud Incision
apathetic vision
active indecision
stone washed memories
like a smoke cloud incision...
Would you be my one and only
Would you ever think to ask me out,
Would you take me to a movie,
Would you dare your-self to hold my hand in-front of your ‘mates',
Would you really take me on a date,...
and i awake
The burn would run all night and morning
Gurgling seductively outside my bedroom window
Golden brown and bubbling over the peat-moss moors
Sounds of scratching fowls and swishing cows...
Pierides
Often I'll wait with bated breath,
While on Grecian steps I lie,
For their clamour. But, with a whimpering sigh
Of wasted hope, I stand alone....
Blessed Is He
Blessed is he who finds Truth and looks him in the eye
Blessed is he who stops the march, turns and wonders why
Blessed is he who looks above when the answers lie below
Blessed is he...
