MAG Poetry Competition 2010 - search for new poems
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Modern Day UK
Entrails of thoughts drag behind
Lead by her racing mind
Body like lead
A belly well-fed...
Wolves in the Snow
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The quick of my bitten nail
shows a bright bead of blood.
Whoever said it was right: a man...
Smuts
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These glasshouse smuts
are hard to kill. Trapped
specks of soot
in dazzles of sun. Snatch one...
Allotment
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We were digging that too heavy earth too long,
Too long and at the wrong time –
Days of rain had made a world of clay that clung
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Patchworking
I’m mending her quilt
a gaudy Katrina survivor,
its appliquéd squares
of cotton and cheesecloth...
In Praise of the Children Who Sell Scarves at Angkor Wat
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They celebrate the divinity of free enterprise,
for though they travel in flocks, each,
like a homing pigeon, represents himself.
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Remnants
Like some whacky space-age insect
the American helicopter, blades
silenced by time and midday heat,
hunches, beached forever, just inside...
I Greet the Blue Water Buffalo of Cambodia
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O you are blue, not the casual blue of everyday sky,
the shade a child crayons in above a house
with a chimney and windows for eyes,
not even lapis lazuli, too decorative,...
Canned Peas
Stiff with best behaviour I sit between Grandma and Grandpa,
while my new mother serves hamburgers,
serves baked potatoes, serves canned peas. I watch her, my scalp...
Papa's Shower
My great grandpa died falling in the shower
because pain, and pills, and time
get heavy.
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