MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - search for new poems
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The House
Quifi Marshall strolls back
and forth, up and down the line
Of the street, by the
ticking of the courthouse clock
She makes rounds by the
dozens, finding the slightest adventure
In...
Life Through Seasons
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The spring dawns with its scent, The stream glows and dances all along. The birds wake up to the sweet sunshine, And sing a new song in the most pleasant pitch. As the leaves sprout from their...
Today
Are you longing for something more?
Been trapped behind this closed door too long-
Broken, raw, damaged to the core but still holding on.
If you done stuff wrong and long to get away;...
Wine and Separation
Cat-eye night
there's a pigeon in the tower
there's a pigeon singing up there
songs of grit and grimy sidewalks...
Intersection Shore and Shore
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Swirly whirly
cabbie clik clik boom time
Drive-thru Mackey-D's
Ice-cream cravin' time...
I Made This For You
Have you tasted this?
She asked
Cracking peppercorns under a flat-bladed knife
With a meat-mallet;...
Santa Monica, 6am
There he sits on the bus like an atom too fast
Spinning round spinning round
and too fast and then smashed
And the splinters are stuck and they stick in his head...
Never Again
The Soul’s first ascent untamed
And Love’s first dance by the flame.
I will never have that again....
Educational Karma
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Teenage predators...
Sanctuary
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A castaway finds a shore...
