Notes About The Poem
July, 2006Contest Winners
| Place |
Name |
Poem |
Prize |
| 1 |
Johnette Loefgren |
Where Poetry Lives |
$62.50 and Certificate |
| 2 |
Keith Bickerstaffe |
Petal |
$50 and Certificate |
| 3 |
Erin Moss |
Date Night (and the day after) |
$37.50 and Certificate |
| 4 |
Larry Smith |
TO SHE: DRAWN TO THY BEAUTY {quatrain} |
$25 and Certificate |
| 5 |
Jill Martin |
Debts Paid |
$25 and Certificate |
| 6 |
Mary Nagy |
Our Bed |
$25 and Certificate |
| 7 |
Merv Webster |
HARD HAT HEROES |
$25 and Certificate |
| |
William Ward |
smitten with raincoats |
Honorable Mention/Certificate |
| |
Bob shank |
The Ole' Ballfield |
Honorable Mention/Certificate |
| |
Tony Bush |
Dodge City |
Honorable Mention/Certificate |
| |
Dr.Ram Mehta |
From illusion to reality |
Honorable Mention/Certificate |
| |
Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi |
The Lost Ones |
Honorable Mention/Certificate |
From Illusion To Reality-W
She was walking on the footpath uneven,
The tiles, at places, jagged and broken
Making the pedestrians walk with care
Stuffed in her head a question not fair.
Meandering not to knock a sleeping beggar
With a battered bowl, a skeleton road keeper,
Was he dead or alive? she could not guess,
And she? Being alive meant not feeling helpless.
Her husband, pot-bellied, balding bully, a bull
Bulling like a bullfrog walking ahead in blue
Halting, looking back to measure the gap,
The gap would never close in to good shape.
She thought of their congenial intimacy
Seven years back, love affair, pregnancy.
They entered a shop to buy the grocery.
She saw a kid’s picture on a pad of nappy.
Death of their son, mockery of her love,
The unfaithfulness of her idiotic cove.
The shopkeeper’s son was on the phone:
“Is there any point to carry it further on?”
“I will be going to USA for three years at least
Want to be free and have fun, can’t commit.”
Her heart went on the other side of the phone
Her inner voice spoke to her in different tone.
Outside the moon shimmered on a clear summer
Her eyes shone with a clear determined glimmer
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Second Place win in
The Contest Featured Poem by P.D.
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The poem was featured in 2006 and won Honorable Mention in
The Poetry Soup International contest of July, 2006.
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