Monthly Poetry Contest

Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first...

Ursula Major kindle bright
Safe-harbor seamen tonight
Enlighten foreboding pitch
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All your tragedies are seen on all the televisions
All your indecisions were made through precision...

Like a child in the dark
Like a dog with no bark
Like a never ending night
Like a bird...

Hamlet, I guess you make me feel real
When ordinary life becomes an ordeal
I questioned who I...

Never in my life have I seen a sunset before
On my bucket list that is for sure
Want to see...

Here I stand dejected midway confined in this crowded place. Tears descending on my face. My abyss of a...

I stood that day on the river bed
amongst nature's earthly realm
the heron scurried in the...

There is nothing hard
Like watching someone you love,
Loving someone else
The love...

Phela lengane
Yazalwa yinsizwa nentombi
Ingeyase Manyamandeni ngokuzalwa
Kodw' inkaba...

The lean, long, lanky worm wriggly and brown
Pushes hiself up through the earth then slides slowly...

my hands, as words steeped in silence,
reach for the limitless space in your eyes:
green...

That feeling of betrayal, like a knot in your stomach you can't untie,
Reading into every word,...

Please can something or somebody change this crazy situation
Me no likey this here and now boredom...

From the mountain tops
I will sing
If only in spirit, to faith I'll cling

With...

Missing
The tree that gives life
Birds add their voice
Becoming a song
Left the...

Under the peel of plastic
Through thick and thin of glue
There stays a painting marked by...