MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - search for new poems
About 80% of the participants in the 2010 poetry competition wished their poems to remain viewable on the website. Check these out here:
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Oxford Cat
Ginger was a cat
Confused that he might be -
Black and called sooty full of mystery,
Prowling the streets of Oxford...
Election Debate
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Three smiling fools,
Competing for favour,
Colour coded morons,
All suits and smiles...
T.E.A.R.S ( Tragic Events Amass Relentless Stress)
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Resembling rain descending drains in winter
Mine like a damp wall – with an internal manoeuvre
Sensation of a slave ankles bound together
Frustration of life, not getting better...
Barack. Abuma?
When you won I was surprised
But did not celebrate
Because you’re still a politician at the end of the day
Famous for lies, painting a pretty picture in the war zone...
Clockwork
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They say ‘hold your head high’ but why?
We are all living in shame
How can I look to the sky?
I’ll focus on the drain...
Contradictions
If I fought fire with water?
Eventually I’d be steaming
If I matched fire with fire?
It’d destroy everything...
The Dark
If I should die, before I wake…
They would cut me up and throw my body to waste
Slash my remains with blades
Through my skin it penetrates...
Rusty Can
I wandered down to meet the sea,
To set my kindred spirit free,
I sat upon the golden shore,
A flock of seagulls swoop and soar....
Bitter Words
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I keep bitter words in my back pocket
My flick knife, just in case there they
stay never used in safe sound silent
place Just in...
Grief
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it's not until memory drifts along,
carried by the gentle breeze
of a fading hurricane that once
wings flapping turbulence...
