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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The living and the dead
The
living and the dead
A girl hovers
vacantly in among the smouldering ruins....
Stairs to nowhere
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Heat
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She's no longer warm, with a sharp coldness
seeping through the body
she is warm, with a rising heat.
Nothing can freeze her....
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Dreaming of dead birds
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Teardrop
Bellied, like the seed
sack of a
snapdragon, protruding
forward,
into life. A short life
(though
a new birth,
nevertheless)....
GATEWAY TO HOME
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We raise our eyes from the pavement
as unforgiving and hard as war,
to watch a slow dream sequence
stuck in a time loop....
WOOTTON BASSETT GATEWAY
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Three deep we stand waiting,
an invisible shroud binds us together,
a pressure all carry of history being made.
Tell us there's a reason, so we can bear it...
Green Park (Tuesday 12th of June 2007, 6.30pm)
Green Park in the evening
almost 6 o’clock,
I heard a beating heart
Then the beating stopped....
LITTLE BOY
Oh what
overwhelming woes you bring,
Not a child of happy days,
A cold and ruthless little boy,...
