Margaret Foster Poet Sestina

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Contest Description   Sponsor Justin Bordner  

How well do you listen to the heart... No rules exist for this Contest

 

An old one. She listened to her heart.

 

Sestina----1-song 2-years 3-pain 4-love 5-heart 6-tears

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Singing a New Song

Singing a New Song


	Today I heard a country song
	I hadn’t heard for many years
	I closed my eyes and felt the pain
	Rememb’ring when we shared our love
	Before the days that broke my heart
	The memory filled these eyes with tears

	My cheeks were wet with spilling tears
	the singer singing her sad song
	As emptiness invades my heart
	I gazed down on the lonely years
	For I no longer have your love
	And fear I cannot bear the pain

	It is a low and cutting pain
	My eyes they shed a million tears
	As the sad tale of our lost love
	Is captured in the singer’s song
	I wonder just how many years
	To mend a shattered broken heart

	But will it ever mend, this heart
	Repair itself and ease the pain
	I think of all the wasted years
	Of all the bleak and useless tears
	Just like the lyrics of the song
	A troubled, doomed and hopeless love

	If you came back to claim my love
	could I entrust you with my  heart?
	Or, like the woman in the song
	Would your return bring only pain?
	My life forever filled with tears
	Throughout more long and lonely years

	And would it be as in past years
	You’d pour contempt on my true love
	You’d laugh at all my pleading tears
	And ridicule my breaking heart.
	I must find strength to conquer pain
	And live no more this mournful song

	No wasted years, no cruel false heart
	Disloyal love or wounding pain
	No hurt or tears in my new song

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Kash Poet September 14, 2011 at 1:12 AM wow!It was placed in a soup contest.As I see from Carolyn's comment below.That is excellent.

Kash Poet September 14, 2011 at 1:09 AM An emotional write from you.This form is new to me.Beautiful poem.

Daniel Cwiak December 20, 2010 at 4:01 PM Congratulations, Margaret, on your win in the contest. Dan C

John Freeman December 20, 2010 at 8:48 AM Congratulations Margaret on your beautiful Sestina's honored place. Enjoy lady. Agape, Moses

Kierra Boyd December 8, 2010 at 9:32 AM thats was really i liked it and congrats

Sara Kendrick December 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM Congratulations on your win..Sara

Dr Hitendra Mehta November 25, 2010 at 3:17 AM Margaret - Many congrats on winning coveted spot in contest..... Happy Thanksgiving.... Luv & Best wishes.....Hitendra Mehta

Sylvia Coulstock November 24, 2010 at 5:19 PM Hi Margaret.I think this is such a hard form to write in.Yet you have managed it so skilfully.You have stayed true to the essence of your creation from beginning to end through the flow of your words.Yet also remained true to the Sestina form.I applaud your ability as a poet and congratulate you on a well deserved win.I really enjoyed this.Love June (Sylvia)

Kabuteng P.Ink K. November 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM Wow, I really find this form so challenging and you pulled this off wonderfully, Margaret! This is amazing and very worthy of your win! Super congrats! -- nikko :)

Carolyn Devonshire November 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM Nice work, Margaret! Big congratulations to you for this fine placement in the soup contest! Love, Carolyn

Andrea Dietrich November 23, 2010 at 5:46 PM Gosh, Margaret, where oh where are you? I've tried to contact you and never can find out what happened. How wonderful to win in this big contest with a sestina. Such an ambitious form to tackle. congratulations. LUv, Andrea

Audrey Haick November 23, 2010 at 12:50 PM Dear Maggie, My warm congratulations on your win in PS Intl. Contest! Have not heard from you in eons!! Hope you're doing very well, Maggie.. God bless. Love, Audrey

Carol Sunshine Brown November 23, 2010 at 10:32 AM Congratulations on your win Margaret in The PoetrySoup International Contest with your amazing poetry. Love, Carol

Anna-Marie Docherty November 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM Warmest congratulations, loved your poem it made for a great read, Anna-Marie.

Suresh Iyer November 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM Congrats for being among the winners, Cheers i take inspiration from you cheers suresh

Carol Sunshine Brown November 10, 2010 at 10:10 AM Congratulations on your poetry X3 making it through the first round of the Poetrysoup site contest Margaret. The best to you in the finals. Love, Carol

Carol Sunshine Brown May 21, 2010 at 4:50 AM Congratulations on your win in Jared's contest "The Sestina" Margaret. Love, Carol

Joyce Johnson May 18, 2010 at 10:03 AM Very, very nice. You conquered the repetition and made it into a country song. Love, Joyce

Linda-Marie Sweetheart May 18, 2010 at 8:40 AM Congrats Margaret on your HM in the Sestina contest... enjoy your wonderful honor for an equally wonderful write...luv.. Linda-Marie..

Debbie Guzzi May 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM You could make a country song of this Maggie! I hope you are putting your feather headress OR spurs on for my contest? Light & Love

May 6, 2010 at 11:43 AM The emotion comes through your words in this one. Like the hope in the last line. Good luck in the contest. Thank you for your kind comments. Karen

Andrea Dietrich May 6, 2010 at 7:27 AM AWESOME, Margaret. YOu did super with this form, and if anybody can do it, you certainly shoudl be able to. LUv, andrea

Jared Pickett May 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM Very, very good my poetic friend... I look forward to judging this contest.. There are so many to choose from... It proves to be a challenge...... Good luck....:JP]

Andrea Dietrich May 2, 2010 at 6:32 PM gosh, everyone is putting me to shame trying this form. I just keep putting it off becaus of all my other things to do. Like this crazy commenting, which I love nonetheless. Very well done and I wish you luck, if it's for that contest. LUv ya, andrea

Michael J. Falotico May 2, 2010 at 8:19 AM Very well done!!!

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