Geoffrey Brewer Poet Rispetto

Liddington Hill Rispetto

There is one image forever in my mind
Downland ridge, a back-cloth to my forming years
Like a table, bare, where ancestors once dined
An ikon potent that in my thought adheres 
It’s sensation - viscerally firm to bind
And hold me now and for this life in its sphere
But one day some time hence I will rise thereon
And stay ‘til wind scatters dust, and I move on

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Sara Kendrick February 12, 2019 at 12:34 PM I have read your short work and wanted to say congrats on your win ..Way to go.. Sara Geoffrey Brewer February 27, 2019 at 4:45 AM Thank you, Sara.

Connie Marcum Wong February 5, 2019 at 1:22 AM Congratulations on your win Geoffrey! Memories are always a comfort, if they are good ones. : ) Geoffrey Brewer February 5, 2019 at 11:36 AM Yes, memories are what I have most of. Thanks, Connie.

Carolyn Devonshire February 4, 2019 at 12:43 PM Lines 1, 3, 4 and 7 all have only 10 syllables according to howmanysyllables.com. Otherwise your lovely poem would have ranked higher, Geoffrey. It was very difficult for me to judge this contest because contestants wrote so many incredibly beautiful poems. It's my hope that all of them will regard their entries as wonderful "stand-alone" poems. Congratulations on your win! Best wishes, Carolyn Geoffrey Brewer February 4, 2019 at 3:36 PM Carolyn, thank you for your tolerance of my errors (kicking myself for them). I have corrected them now - too late for the contest. Many thanks for placing me, and your kind comments.