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ARTELLA'S POETRY GARDENS OF FAME! Click the links below to read the winning poems for the week of July 22, 2005. Poetry Gardens of Fame Index |
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Claire Sauer
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My Place in the World
The shimmering shadows of sunlight through leaves - possibilities tremble. Let the patterns fall across the page unafraid. It's the contrast - light, dark, pen, ink where the wonder unfolds. My opaque self shimmers into life. I place myself where light can fall. Positioning is everything. |
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Andrea Welsh
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Imagination Gone Awry
No one had known, it was surreptitious, She had lived in a world, vicarious. Formed by thoughts of being inscrutable, Once there she was irrevocable. The scourge was a life of pain and despair; The result was a life of laissez-faire. But binding her on each foot a fetter, And this world of hers, merely gossamer. Visiting her world in transient aura, Her hopes shined in sedulous aurora. She was not resilient from the departure Of her world or her love, the demon archer. To return and be quenched she remonstrates, For our world she repudiates. Now she wanders in a tone, sepulchral, Living a lie in a world unnatural. Not able to return to the world she contrived, She lies down no longer to be revived. This is the caveat I must exhort: Don't make a girl die as her last resort. |
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Tara Douglas-Smith
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Pins silver tips like the hairpins in my grandmother's hair or the metallic threads they pushed in place hold all the memories together safety pinned to curses |
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Robin O'Neal
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Goddess on the Shore
There is in my mind a woman Luminescent Walking the sunset beach Cheek glow shadows cast upon her breast Watching pink sky horizon Greet mirror water On the edge of daynight Sand squishing as waves recede Feet sinking Connecting with her earth Tall, alone Effortless grace One centered soul Expansive Enough Ready |
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