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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Sacrilege!
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I’m not a lover of St Ives
She taints so many people’s lives.
Her sweetness leaves an after-taste
That no one knows is poison-laced....
The Dawn Silence
The Dawn Silence
Is it art or is it a stunt?
Do we really give a f**k?...
Biodiversecology
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The curtain rose lightly like new morning mist
Reminiscent of old Greek mythology
The conductor's hands fluttered like leaf litter, softly
Revealing a hidden ecology...
My poem is being deleted
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My poem is being deleted
Deleted my poem will be
Even though I have no doubt...
Unseen Injustice
They say...
The apple never falls far
From the tree,
But,...
A Matter of Body and Mind
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I am prudent to your cause,
this unrequited commitment, and these laws,
feeling I should or should not feel,
moments that are better to conceal....
I Know You're Here
Here I am again,
dry retching from the driver's seat
...
December
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She picked at the thread of her cardigan,
picked at it until it unravelled a little
teasing it between the thumb and forefinger
Pulling, pulling, easing the wool away from the whole....
Tomatoes
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October's hollows trawled,
I haul tomato shoals
On vines as thick as fishing nets,
They hang in lines like traffic lights...
Talking to Death as if it were a Living Silence
The unwanted
guest! – the merciless reaper,
Without
interruption you intrude the houses we tenant;
They kissed the
earth, like termites installed trees,...
