MAG Poetry Competition 2011 - search for new poems
About 44% of the participants in the 2011 poetry competition wished their poems to remain viewable on the website. Check these out here:
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Mr ?
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The saddest thing was seeing his hedges grow;
spindly branches like malnourished limbs
protruding from the confines of the borders,
spoiling the edges of his once tidy garden....
Procrastination
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They are too precious,
these minutes of mine.
Like rare coins,
pennies of time,
they shine
and dazzle me....
2011
The revolution has come
But has missed a step
The blind and the deaf
Don’t know what is done...
Unrest
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Khaled wears sunglasses.
My worried face reflected in their blackness.
He is young,
Youth seeping from the edges of...
The Storyteller Remembers
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1963
Once upon a time, not twice, not three times
but once,...
Pass the Parcel
My guilt is an old guilt,
Passed through generations of women
Like a parcel in a child’s game.
When the music stops it is my turn,...
Her Perfect Son
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She presented him to the outside world
Scrubbed and tidy,
Her perfect son.
She put him away to bed...
Old Gold
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Thin with the years, bent and twisted
Like her hands, worn from long work.
This ring has seen hard days.
...
Note to Self
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Alone, she walks five feet behind herself.
She’s lost herself amongst the crowd just like
A speck of dust amid a giant cloud,
But not the one that lands upon your nose....
In Memory of David
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When life’s challenges gather to create
perfect storm,
When perspective is lost and desperation
the norm,
Lest we learn we are nothing without
family and friends,
And without...
