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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I lie awake at night, thinking,
Wondering,
Wanting.
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Bit Part in a Historical Re-enactment
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A rough brown shawl hung down her front
exposing
her breasts' edges...
Rosemary
Her one remaining eye is a beacon,
blue as sea-ice.
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Hailing
As my lips are prised open
The sugary dew embraces my tastebuds
The viscous, yet, delectable taste of a
minor victory
Worth nothing to many but can be the
lever...
The Purest Morning
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The day I wake up and smile at the sun
I will hold no contempt for man and his
machinations
The day I wake up and breathe in the
stale air
I will help the man on the ground I...
Death Powder Grunts
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Your hypocrisy’s pissing me off,
Neurological dystrophy,
Chalking the minds of the limited.
Bankers, politicians, journalists, freaks;...
barren
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There is a half empty
Vodka bottle
on the coffee table
between the three of us....
Before Dawn in Spring.
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The night
sky is like one big black fucking eye.
There is no...
Angle Tarn
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One day I will climb again to Angle Tarn
where we heard the ice stretch-sigh like ghosts from fathoms low.
We carried on to Rossett Pike for the view to Mickleden,
the drumlins drawn...
Old Country Bunglow
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A sleepless, lovelorn myna,
Stirs dawn’s first spark of light,
A round, eerie patio glows,
Like a lake on a moonlit night;...
