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Concrete Requiem

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Written August 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by Vanya Evangeline

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Orpheus in the Underpass,
strummed not strings but a tape untied, 
melodies mut...

First Steps Funerals and Nanas Hands

...First Steps Funerals and Nana's Hands 

By Evelyn Aimarie

2 days after my Nana's funeral
My oldest son took his first steps. 
She was my grandmother on my father's side, but more like a mother...

While Oboes Played Strings were Strummed

...Welo and Shewa 
and the Opals of the Region
Darkwin Clouds damped the outdoor festivities leading
the onlookers to go indoors. There these to beautiful women
stood modeling there wears there beau...

Picture Books Blue

...A lifetime or two in a past far away  
           There lives for me still, through a thicket of gray
The brilliance of love for the world I once knew
      In more than just memories on pictures ...

FIRE

...River makes its final clunk
Between
Hills
Rolling boulders like turtle shells
Empty of their mouths and hearts

River bent
Flailing legs and neck
No longer reflects
The sun and moon
From wa...

the body

...The body

Johan on the strand
The sun shone on his belly
Gulls had gouged his eyes
Crabs crawled into his nose
came out of his mouth
A shroud of sea tar
A man strummed a guitar
A girl laughe...

The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli

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In vibrations of virtual whispers,
I found her under a satin sunset,
chained to an eerie entity, digging, 
its claws into her silken spirit.
Yet behind her dim eyes - I saw 
tiny flames of fuc...

Acta est fabula, plaudite

...What I sing from my chest
Only for ivory keys to hear.
Are the same old words
That cracked lips bear.
That familiar tune that calloused fingers play
Is the one that my own heart aches to say.
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encounter on pier 39

...encounter on pier 39


 she sat inaudibly alone on pier thirty-nine

 watching colorful sail boats go lazily by

 i didn’t know her name but she was a friend of mine

 and it hurt so ...

free spirits

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she strummed her guitar and we sang
by the glow of the campfire
we were free and had no worries
we thought the summer would never end


AP: Honorable Mention 2025, Honorable Mention 2025

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The Purple Bass

...The purple bass
was held by the Voice of Rock
Notes were strummed
like the feathers of angels
That is they sounded beautiful 
in the sunset sky above...

jacob and his guitar

...Jacob and his guitar sat down on magestic mars
strummed their tune to the delight of the stars
the earth got silent, her orange showing through
he was adorable, sincere, melodic, and innocent true...

John Denver

...John Denver was a fine country singer,
Rocky Mountain High immortalized him,
guitar strummed, sleight of hands, picked by finger,
skilled writer, voice, guitarist, songs, or hymn.

Annie's Song,...

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Parody

...Inflamed beneath a midday fear, that novelist's story unfolds,
Shone angles trending 'neath the Earth to switch sparks till cold,
Zeal queues the chosen to fire calm suite blissful psalms dreams sw...

The Mouse With the Hat

...he wore a tiny boater hat,
	my mouse who played guitar,
and patrons at the local pub
	cheered, "wow, you've got a star!"
but then some talent-scout came in
	while mouse strummed on the bar …
"b...

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