I echo the sentiments of everyone else before me when I say, "That was tough!"
I echo the sentiments of everyone else before me when I say, "That was tough!"
It was very hard to choose. I had to go back and read them all at least a few times. Well done, every one!It was enjoyable to read those wrapped in a blanket, sipping hot cocoa. <3 Mm, I love autumn.
Then she would run until morning to ease the ache; swifter than rain, swift as loss, racing to catch up with the time when she had known nothing at all but the sweetness of being herself.
-- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Going once...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Going twice...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I would like to thank everyone who participated in the competition and voted.
Congratulations to Qimissung, who is the winner of our Autumn Poetry Contest!
Time Flowing Forever
Standing under the gray sky lintel,
Breathe in the air, tangy with
Cold, the hint of winter snow
Hanging in the air behind it.
I stop, surrounded by the shining gray
As if all the snow that will ever fall
Lies there, a snow globe waiting
To be shaken; the promise
Awaits, even if it’s never claimed.
Hovering on the cusp between day
And night, I feel the sweet sorrow
Wrap its’ arms around me as I
Contemplate the dying earth,
The dying day, the dying season,
And my childhood gone away.
Time flowing forever on the
Limitless river of infinity,
Forever beyond me,
Forever a part of me
I face forward, Janus, into the
Purple twilight, the cold a
Promise of the fierce passion
To come, the hope of it
Beckoning me forward with
Sunset’s fiery fingertips.
I stand in the purple, mournful, haunting
Dusk and, with the naked trees, listen
To earth’s hymn, sung in a minor key.
The frailty and force of life
Rest in the purple coverlet
The day drapes over me,
Tender as a mother to a
Child, as we await the night.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Congratulations Qimi!! Wonderful poem. That last stanza was exquisite!
The frailty and force of life
Rest in the purple coverlet
The day drapes over me,
Tender as a mother to a
Child, as we await the night.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Yea, my fav, won... Congrats.
Way to go Qimi! Encore! Encore!
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
It was beautiful qim! Yours was my favorite as well, though like I said before, it was a very difficult choice to make. Congrats to all!
Gimissung, my friend, I did love your poem best; I voted for it. Congratulations! It was a difficult choice though. Since, they all were so great, can we now find out who wrote each. I think everyone here was a winner.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Thank you all, you dear people. Mostly it's nice to have such wonderful friends! They were all good poems, I enjoyed reading each of them. I know who wrote two of them, and would love to know who wrote the others. Thank you, again, Virgil, Maryd, Pendragon, skib, Janine, for your warm good wishes.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
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