In Winnipeg Park
Winter comes like a cat
Feeds on human warmth
Grows into a lion, gnaws
The hearts, scars bleeding, he melts
Winters End - Poetry Contest
Sponsor SKAT A
Poet: Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
11 January, 2015
Categories:
winnipeg, winter,
Form: Tanka
SUN UP NEAR WINNIPEG
Endless black land sewn to pink sky
Flawless dawn over the sown field
Crack of gold splits the seam
Pink is flooded with mauve
Land is spread with sunshine butter
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Entered in Francine's contest
( Chosen category is NATURE )
Categories:
winnipeg, nature,
Form: Imagism
Memories of Winnipeg
We often
intensly disagree,
but I know your face
and over the long term
you have always been here
and tightening my strings.
.
Now I see you broken.
You have
temporarily lost and
every one of your days is scary
as you hang on a string above the
safety web, with king safety poised to
eat you.
.
I could gloat and will and do in private
while smiling down at you and offering
a hand which I know is not enough.
We have tightened each other's
knots and tugged for 20 years. I'm
glad to see you victim of your errors.
.
I tell you your career has been
checkered. You have been stubborn and
righteous as if you were
meant to struggle. My
poor friend. And you have become
something else. It must be
better now.
Categories:
winnipeg, friendship, work,
Form: Light Verse
WINNIPEG FROM 30 000 FEET
Flight over the Lakes - turbulent altogether:
Wingtips alarmingly shaken like sticks.
In the Manitoba prairie’s settled weather
Pilot finds his clear-night city-fix.
Winnipeg’s rarely thought of as pretty;
But now working girl’s out for the night:
On starless ground twinkles diadem city -
A shining shimmering glorious sight.
We glide and gaze at her regal art -
Roads of diamonds in rows enthreaded :
O’er the star-shaped city’s heart -
Royal necklace, black velvet embedded.
Down on earth this girl’s no cutey;
Seen by heaven - she’s a beauty.
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(City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, seen around midnight from a high flying jet.)
Entered in Debbie Guzzi's contest
Categories:
winnipeg, urban, , cute,
Form: Sonnet