April 27, 2023
~ Third Place ~ Premiere Contest: 2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 14 Sponsor: Mark Toney
~ Second Place ~ Contest: I Died Sponsor: Craig Cornish
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~ Poem Of The Day ~ April 29, 2023
As blaze of August fades into the Fall horizons new have burned and turned to ash and textures of the change of seasons clash, a plague of frost becomes a rose’s pall. The supple smooth confronts the brittle break as petals silk matures a wrinkled skin and winter’s snow to bury sins begin — a fallen cloud the shroud for briar’s wake. The days of glory sun and ruby rays, across the skies, these hues were once my own, beneath the blue above the green, my fling... dressed not but strands of dew in solstice haze. When youth was sown my roots were honed in stone I died… but I will rise again in Spring!
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