MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - search for new poems
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Taking Flight
Walking down a street in Gaza one day
Which street it was, I forget the name,
Looking around I began to feel a sense of shame.
I met a young boy, eyes full of terror...
Walled In
Brick by Brick, Trick by Trick,
Being buried, walled in, but the...
The Conundrum
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Taker or bearer,
The tantilizing image of hazy mirth,
Poisonous, venomous with impurity,
Plague of Man upon Man,...
Not Just Yet
Tickle,
tracking and yawn with sighs to dawn
The Maker greets his man -
Luminescent and ferrel
radiance
The Creature grasps and
extensions are entwined...
The knowledge that burns
As I make my way up and
down the lines in shades
of green are parted by a
furrowed brow and I...
Mrs. Suspicious
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Mrs. Suspicious,
was doing the dishes,
and was worrying about the spider in the bath.
So she called on her husband,...
Roller coaster dreams
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Shifting walls in mottled designs,
painted pictures, sinister lines,
menace inducing tremors of dread,
curving, bending inside my head....
Baby
My sleepy heart
Wakes after long hibernation
Stretches and flexes stiffly
Throwing out gusts of pain...
Soldiers
Why are we marching in circles?
We’re soldiers
We’re soldiers waiting for war
That’s what soldiers are for...
Home is where the heart is.
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Chequered crinkled tablecloth
Rows upon rows of little plastic squares
Like brothers and sisters
The chips in the woodchip wallpaper...
