MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - search for new poems
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A Bend in the Road
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I am driving home.
Thoughts ranging over a busy day
Comfortable in my world.
Outside my cocoon, headlights pierce the darkness,...
Les Amants (The Lovers) on Magritte
Just you wait Georgette,
I swear, you are going to wish
you had never been born!...
Sonnet
My boot makes mockery
of a puddle,
Mirroring the buzz of
bass in my brain.
Another night out
bashing the cocaine
Rots the mind. Home life is bloody awful....
A Night at the pub with Ted and Dylan
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My view mingles through the dreaded hue and cry as
Staggered figures lean across the oceanic rust.
Mind opens to see the two giants
And I respect the growth beneath my feet....
My Land
My Wales, my land.
My ball is round not oval.
A flag of confusion.
A nation unknown....
I
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I,
Cantturn a blind eye,
On the fourth of July,
To the Asianfruitfly,...
supplies for winter
Just as the
squirrel gathers his supplies for winter
I must prepare
for the cold and bitter winds of rejection
The most
fearsome winter could not ready a man for the cruelties delivered...
Tea
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Somehow you led me home and told me again
of the emperor Shennong’s cup of warm spring water
under a tree of falling leaves. The way some leaves
fell in, browning the water. In...
It's raining
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I awoke early
and sat on the edge of the bed,
I leaned forward to look through the crack in the curtain.
I saw the faint reflection of my eye,...
Nothing
There’s nothing left to do,
That I haven’t already done and
I’ve done nothing....
