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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For Springtime
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For months of winter rain
Four months of endless pain
And heartache
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Gaddafi Time
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Jealous Leo will kill him by pen of UN
Oil slick, smell, the tar will burn
The meat offering charge first the son
The nation will rule and the spoilers will run...
To Whom It May Concern
If you are going to write the words of my story
Tell them I was young and unworthy.
Laying in the black of night, crying sorely
For fear of attaining my expected glory....
Last degrees
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Like a king, carved and placed
atop his tomb, you lay,
though you were not yet stone.
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Word Play
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I'm a pun-loving kind of girl,
fond of the way that words can weigh
heavy or subtle on the scale.
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For fine lines
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She gazes, alabaster blank,
touched up to seem untouched,
devoid of life and lines,
from laughing, losing...
Dawn
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Last night we stayed up so late we were there to watch the cars drive in.
In apathetic early morning dark they nosed their bumpy shadows into our space where we stood
With red eyes, tousled...
The Accident
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He lay like road kill between two lanes
Broken,
Already dressed in black....
SUNDEATH
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Scientists say that when the Sun uses up all its
hydrogen,
it will start to swell until its surface reaches the orbit of Mars.
Earth will be engulfed and consumed in the process.
The...
There is no pain.
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Ah, the pain, the pain, the pain!
There
is no pain.
Ah, the pain, the pain......
