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For: What I Love-What I Hate - Double Rispetto Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tom Woody
September 28, 2025

Premiere Contest WinnerRispetto In Two Parts

Part One: I Love

The eagle as it flies far above restless
fields of golden wheat and stagnant marsh bottoms 
where mice and rabbits inhabit ancient cress,
living small and unaware now in autumn's 
warning chill of season's soon coming winter~
but the eagle knows coming snow will splinter
nature into those who have and who have not,
and only wisdom will see what spring has wrought.

Part Two: I Hate

The cold wind as it winnows its spiteful way
across tall mountain peaks into the valley
where colorful summer flowers once did play,
enticing bees to a pollen-filled galley ~
now flowers are dead and the bees have withdrawn
to hide from the cold in their houses of brawn
while beautiful flakes become old snow piled deep,
and nature has burrowed for long winter's sleep.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Great, congratulations. Happy Diwali!!
Achara Avatar
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thank you. I had to look up Diwali. Happy Diwali to you too.!
Harp Avatar
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Chetta, I really, really like this poem! It is a fav of mine... well done. Moon Harp
Achara Avatar
October 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Thank you.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Wow, such an exceptional work of literature, and I am delighted that it garnered such a prestigious trophy place in Tom's contest; my sincerest congratulations on your contest win.
Achara Avatar
October 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Thank you. I do think the poem is one of my best.
Hind Avatar
September 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This should do well, Chetta :) very deep, and searching, out and in season
Achara Avatar
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thank you. I am quite pleased with it.
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September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
outstanding poem Chetta! Your Rispetto is perfectly constructed with some extraordinary imagery ( fields of golden wheat and stagnant marsh bottoms where mice and rabbits inhabit ancient cress,) best wishes with this entry in the contest, hugs, Sara
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October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thank you.
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