Poetry competition CLOSED 30th April 2019 6:32pm
WINNER
cabcool
cabcool
RUNNER-UP:
Zaynab_kamoonpury
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Around the World----Australia
Poetry Contest Description
Write a poem about Australia
Let's do another series-based set of competitions, on countries of the world. These will last one week each, with a different country each week, to write about.
Rules:
One poem per poet
Any style, length
No collabs
Must write about the country or somehow incorporate it into your poem
First up: Australia
Have fun!
Rules:
One poem per poet
Any style, length
No collabs
Must write about the country or somehow incorporate it into your poem
First up: Australia
Have fun!
The gentler gender for gentlemen . (For contest)
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I'm proud of belonging to the female race,
To hail from the fair sex
To be a part of womanhood , earthly sisterhood
Not only because I have far less hairy
Smoother, softer fairer pinker skin
than the gents and men
But also because it is only
Our womb that cradles the unborn human
That's why we are the cradle of civilisation and humanity.
And our womanly lap that ensures the survival of the human race
Our motherly lap is said to be a child's first university.
I don't even mind being referred to as the weaker sex
For I connote it to refer to how we are a delicate delicacy
Upon which our men ravish and feast upon
Wherein also lies part of our powers ironically.
I mean I have read of kings who gave up thrones
Just so they can feast their enamoured eyes upon and love a woman!
The chauvinistic world of men has tried to sideline us
Yet powerful women have risen and shone in all ages nevertheless.
Thank you God for creating the mother of all humanity, our first mother, Eve.
Long live womanhood, be proud of your gender.
Let's change the male dominated masculine mindset of this world
And make it more women friendly and feminine.
Men are referred to as gentlemen in English,
yet that can be paradoxically harsh in reality
For more women are gentler ironically .
A woman is flower power
That can shake the world with her delicate petals
As her softer voice has learnt
to pierce, melt and mould his fierce metals
of masculine armours of physical strength
Without employing swords or guns.
A woman is divine art admired by her admirers
A vital divine creation that creates and nurtures
because the Creator has entrusted her with that magnificent role.
( comments are fine but I don't invite them for such contest entries)
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I'm proud of belonging to the female race,
To hail from the fair sex
To be a part of womanhood , earthly sisterhood
Not only because I have far less hairy
Smoother, softer fairer pinker skin
than the gents and men
But also because it is only
Our womb that cradles the unborn human
That's why we are the cradle of civilisation and humanity.
And our womanly lap that ensures the survival of the human race
Our motherly lap is said to be a child's first university.
I don't even mind being referred to as the weaker sex
For I connote it to refer to how we are a delicate delicacy
Upon which our men ravish and feast upon
Wherein also lies part of our powers ironically.
I mean I have read of kings who gave up thrones
Just so they can feast their enamoured eyes upon and love a woman!
The chauvinistic world of men has tried to sideline us
Yet powerful women have risen and shone in all ages nevertheless.
Thank you God for creating the mother of all humanity, our first mother, Eve.
Long live womanhood, be proud of your gender.
Let's change the male dominated masculine mindset of this world
And make it more women friendly and feminine.
Men are referred to as gentlemen in English,
yet that can be paradoxically harsh in reality
For more women are gentler ironically .
A woman is flower power
That can shake the world with her delicate petals
As her softer voice has learnt
to pierce, melt and mould his fierce metals
of masculine armours of physical strength
Without employing swords or guns.
A woman is divine art admired by her admirers
A vital divine creation that creates and nurtures
because the Creator has entrusted her with that magnificent role.
( comments are fine but I don't invite them for such contest entries)
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Written by Zaynab_kamoonpury
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Terra Australis:
Glimpses Of Thy Clear Magnificence
I
O Southern Land,
So hypothetically
Continent,
Art thou not grand,
Even amidst the world’s
Incontinence!
And canst thou, great
Terra Australis, fathom
Western cries
That salivate
For glimpses of thy clear
Magnificence?
II
New Holland rock,
Where Abel Tasmann left his
Gallant mark;
Of equal stock,
Explorer Matthew Flinders
Pleased the ear:
Australia,
Embracing more great portions
Of the earth;
Regalia,
And pomp and pageantry
Down Under there,
III
Where swift Namoi
Inclandestinely to
His Darling flows
To reservoir
Along northwestern coasts
At golden sun!
Koala bears
Provide no swig for drunken
Revelers;
Flora so rare
And megafauna only
Here homespun
IV
Breed kangaroos,
Marsupial lions, Gaonnas,
And horse-sized ducks.
And could I choose
The vast Great Barrier Reef
To be my home,
Matilda’s waltz
And swagman jumbucks in
My tucker bag
Are ancient faults
To sweeten my proverbial
Honeycomb.
V
Three-ocean land,
Titanic isle and tiny
Continent,
Your full command
Mt Disappointment struggles
To reveal.
But when I come
To marvel at your Dream Time
Elegance,
My new shalom
No other place on earth
Shall e’er repeal.
© Copyright 2019 April 29
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
Audio: https://youtu.be/CwvazMc5EfE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Kr7B1zg0U
I
O Southern Land,
So hypothetically
Continent,
Art thou not grand,
Even amidst the world’s
Incontinence!
And canst thou, great
Terra Australis, fathom
Western cries
That salivate
For glimpses of thy clear
Magnificence?
II
New Holland rock,
Where Abel Tasmann left his
Gallant mark;
Of equal stock,
Explorer Matthew Flinders
Pleased the ear:
Australia,
Embracing more great portions
Of the earth;
Regalia,
And pomp and pageantry
Down Under there,
III
Where swift Namoi
Inclandestinely to
His Darling flows
To reservoir
Along northwestern coasts
At golden sun!
Koala bears
Provide no swig for drunken
Revelers;
Flora so rare
And megafauna only
Here homespun
IV
Breed kangaroos,
Marsupial lions, Gaonnas,
And horse-sized ducks.
And could I choose
The vast Great Barrier Reef
To be my home,
Matilda’s waltz
And swagman jumbucks in
My tucker bag
Are ancient faults
To sweeten my proverbial
Honeycomb.
V
Three-ocean land,
Titanic isle and tiny
Continent,
Your full command
Mt Disappointment struggles
To reveal.
But when I come
To marvel at your Dream Time
Elegance,
My new shalom
No other place on earth
Shall e’er repeal.
© Copyright 2019 April 29
by Clyve A. Bowen♫
Audio: https://youtu.be/CwvazMc5EfE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Kr7B1zg0U
Written by cabcool
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