2009 Best *Poem* Nominations and Discussion
- Menolly
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2009 Best *Poem* Nominations and Discussion
Who wrote the best poem this year?
Please link to nominated piece.
Writers Circle authors are eligible as well, as long as their piece is posted for all to read.
Nominate.
Please link to nominated piece.
Writers Circle authors are eligible as well, as long as their piece is posted for all to read.
Nominate.
Last edited by Menolly on Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:15 am, edited 3 times in total.
Lord Foul for a different one:
I just loved the pulse in this one and really liked watching it grow each time it was reposted.Rain's Voice
In sand baked amber, shores curved
in hollow water, arch shadow
of corals and of fish, cicadas
Call in perfect fugue, filter light
Drape shadow, burn
A light of naked miles, ambient
Sparkling pulse; shadow
Marches--waves
Dive to thee
Leaves die in fall
Words shudder, rain
Slashes a windowsill
Unspoken striding form
Bedecks and strides, washes
Mist of unnamed hill
A path of muddied dikes, tongues
Eyeless rivers seethe and meet
Blood and sand
Curved; man
Abates his mind--howls
Brushes, sighs
In constancy;
blue, red-green washing
He fears he sees himself--
Watery cattails calling
There is a knife
I shall cut ours wrists
The reeds lay
In browning march
Home fallen; grey
Distillations
This mass
Changes our city
Rain slashes a windowsill
Divulge no song
No; song--plays; beat
Crack waves of steam
In ancient hymnal
"This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter." ~Tom Robbins
- Dread Poet Jethro
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Limericks were Wayfriend's request
Hyperception submitted the best
It's quoted below
A really good show
A nomination I will invest
Hyperception submitted the best
It's quoted below
A really good show
A nomination I will invest
Hyperception wrote:There once was a man named Covenant
Who found himself in a predicament
When he came to the Land
He did not understand
That escape was no true medicament
The unclean driven forth from the village
With flesh newly kindled to fever
His clasp of young Lena did grieve her
Ardent haste to defile
Argent’s source in denial
Truth troubles your dream, Unbeliever
Fantastic marauder in pillage
Not all the Land’s pleasures were muscular
For Andelain’s treasure crepuscular
Set his head reeling
Soon he was feeling
Protective and rather avuncular
The protector reluctantly does homage
The Ravers triumvirate leer
Moksha Jehannum Turiya
Like damnation’s bureau
In sickly chiaroscuro
They seize ya by swearing to free ya
Infector with spiritual garbage
Glimmermere’s first inspection
Revealed no deeper reflection
Insights coruscating
Ripples undulating
Resulted from pure introspection
Deep secrets the detector must rummage
The mountain’s heart is a hallowed haunt
And Earthblood’s source is tres puissant
The quest that was planned
For the Power of Command
Was merely vainglorious vaunt
Instructor in futility at the invisible college
With grief beyond any oration
And pain that transcends all sensation
The raging Caamora
Transfigures before a
Release from time’s fierce Formication
Unusually Copious Knowledge
Despite is the ultimate element
Before we achieve any denouement
We fight only ourselves
And must look to the shelves
For wisdom beyond Fatal Revenant
Rejector of excess verbiage
- Fire Daughter
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I second. In fact, I was going to nominate it myself...
For Myles--
When evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
For Mom--
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly...fly high against the sky...
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you
The wind beneath my wings
When evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
For Mom--
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly...fly high against the sky...
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you
The wind beneath my wings
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One of the best bits in one of the best threads in KW, I'll second this!Dread Poet Jethro wrote:Limericks were Wayfriend's request
Hyperception submitted the best
It's quoted below
A really good show
A nomination I will investHyperception wrote:There once was a man named Covenant
Who found himself in a predicament
When he came to the Land
He did not understand
That escape was no true medicament
The unclean driven forth from the village
With flesh newly kindled to fever
His clasp of young Lena did grieve her
Ardent haste to defile
Argent’s source in denial
Truth troubles your dream, Unbeliever
Fantastic marauder in pillage
Not all the Land’s pleasures were muscular
For Andelain’s treasure crepuscular
Set his head reeling
Soon he was feeling
Protective and rather avuncular
The protector reluctantly does homage
The Ravers triumvirate leer
Moksha Jehannum Turiya
Like damnation’s bureau
In sickly chiaroscuro
They seize ya by swearing to free ya
Infector with spiritual garbage
Glimmermere’s first inspection
Revealed no deeper reflection
Insights coruscating
Ripples undulating
Resulted from pure introspection
Deep secrets the detector must rummage
The mountain’s heart is a hallowed haunt
And Earthblood’s source is tres puissant
The quest that was planned
For the Power of Command
Was merely vainglorious vaunt
Instructor in futility at the invisible college
With grief beyond any oration
And pain that transcends all sensation
The raging Caamora
Transfigures before a
Release from time’s fierce Formication
Unusually Copious Knowledge
Despite is the ultimate element
Before we achieve any denouement
We fight only ourselves
And must look to the shelves
For wisdom beyond Fatal Revenant
Rejector of excess verbiage
Aglithophile and conniptionist and spectacular moonbow beholder 16Jul11
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- dANdeLION
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I second Foul's Rain Voice and nominate JazFusion's fall from grace
you called yourself a fallen angel
at noon we pulled into the parking lot
the gray from the clouds hung in the air
gouging deeply, much like the baggage
that had settled itself under your eyes
spitting on the ground you
uttered something about
your "Divine Right"
so we went in
through the silent prayers
the sun cast a red glow about you
from the stained glass
you spewed obscenities to those
God-fearing men
and we were ushered away
while i murmured apologies
you laughed
and called yourself
their messiah, the savior
a fallen
angel
lighting up a cigarette
we drove off
leaving God in the dust
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
High priest of THOOOTP
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Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
High priest of THOOOTP
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* This post carries Jay's seal of approval
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I'll second Jaz.
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