Finally! We have a winner!
Our first place of the poetry contest goes to...
BROWNINGS CHILDE!
2nd place is flaggwalkstheline
3rd place goes to Letti
CONGRATULATIONS!
Prizes are forthcoming once I remember what the prizes were supposed to be!
Here are the winning poems!
1. BROWNINGS CHILDE...
All Hallow's Eve
The westering sun soaks the earth,
With tints of burning crimson.
Sinister shadows creep behind,
Or crawl along ahead.
All Hallows Eve's crepuscular rays,
Bring gloaming death in season.
The darkness bests the sun's assault,
And fills the soul with dread.
The children laugh from door to door,
As demons watch and wait.
Ensconsed within each gloom and shade,
They'll stay untill they've fed.
As monster's scream from plastic masks,
With threats of "Trick or Treat",
The real ghouls lurk with growing need,
To rent, and tear, and shred.
A groaning wind whines through the trees,
It whispers and it sighes.
Jack-O-Lanterns search the night,
With eyes of gleaming red.
As ghosts and witches roam the streets,
A straggler falls behind.
The ambush happens silently,
And in the dark he's bled.
Though most will make it home of course,
With candy in their bags.
At least in one child's room tonight,
There'll be an empty bed.
2.flaggwalkstheline...
A time for waiting
Autumn is the only time of year
For us
The lonely people in black coats who wait on street corners with our hands in our pockets
Digging deep into emptyness
For the rest of the spinning sun cycle
The land is green and joyous or celebrating eventual growth
We scuttle like asthmatic rats in the sunlight
But when summer’s citric tidal passion finally ebbs into waves of dull gold and cracked brown
Autumn waits like an expectant lover in a darkened motel room
One lightbulb hanging powerless
The leaves hack chlorophyll tuberculosi as they drop no-eyed from the trees
Coughing under my boots
I wait for further equinox instructions
The wind smiles but it’s the smile of bitter victory and bruised apples
I wait
Through leafless lilac bushes and the peeling of white paint
Through burned out bulbs and nights growing long like dark hair
I tap the smudged windows with my dirty fingernails and wait
I wait for a spear of sunlight to pierce the veil of ice
But at least during autumn when the leaves speak to me
And the sky holds it's grey breath until it turns briefly blue
Like a child about to dive into a swimming pool in those bright but lost hours of summer
I do not wait alone
3. Letti...
Fall
I am a leaf
And my whole world is falling down
Can't recognise my friends
Their new clothes are yellow, red and brown
When wind gets stronger
Some of them make up their mind
Take a big jump
And like butterflies they start to fly
Sometimes I feel
their passionate dance will never end
Time is their slave
None of them ever needs to land
But sooner or later
They all fall and kiss the cold ground
If I look down
I see never-ending colorful crowd
I am not ready yet
But the wind is sighing my name
I am just a leaf
And I am part of this beautiful play
Thank you to everyone who participated... this has been our best poetry contest ever!
ongratulations you guys are poets.
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
Originally Posted by BROWNINGS CHILDE
