2009 Best *Poem* Nominations and Discussion

[Menolly]

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.

[lorin]

I nominate Lord Foul for his poem Wind (although most of his pieces are really good)

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[StevieG]

Seconded for sure!

[Kaydene]

Lord Foul for a different one:

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

I just loved the pulse in this one and really liked watching it grow each time it was reposted.

[wayfriend]

I nominate rdhopeca for Hunter.

[lorin]

Seconded!!!

[Dread Poet Jethro]

Limericks were Wayfriend's request
Hyperception submitted the best
It's quoted below
A really good show
A nomination I will invest

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

[danlo]

I nominate Lord Foul for-- Benediction

Mod edit: inserted link to piece ~m.

[Fire Daughter]

I nominate Lord Foul for-- Benediction

Mod edit: inserted link to piece ~m.

I second. In fact, I was going to nominate it myself...

[stonemaybe]

Limericks were Wayfriend's request
Hyperception submitted the best
It's quoted below
A really good show
A nomination I will invest

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

One of the best bits in one of the best threads in KW, I'll second this!

[dANdeLION]

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

[aliantha]

I'll second Jaz.