Poetry competition CLOSED 11th August 2019 4:34pm
WINNER
ImperfectedStone (The Gardener)
ImperfectedStone (The Gardener)
RUNNERS-UP:
Ahavati
and Heaven_sent_Kathy
Fly Me To The Moon!
Poetry Contest Description
A tribute to the 50th anniversary of when mankind landed & walked on the MOON.
Here we go, Deep members:
This competition is a tribute to the 50th anniversary of when mankind landed & walked on the MOON!
And there are loads of us here at the Deep who LOVE anything & everything to do with our orbiting neighbor of many phases!
Your entry can be about that time in 1969 itself, when the great moment came as “..,one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. If you remember where you were when it happened, your thoughts and so on. It can be about the moon as legend & in mythology. The tides of the moon as it refers to love or just about anything. After all - What doesn’t the moon rule? You can even get a moon burn!
By the way, I as your host, will be including a few of my own writes as non-entries.
So here are the Guidelines, and enjoy as you plan what to enter as your Lunar Legacy for the 50th:
Guidelines:
1. Three-week duration.
2. NO EXTREME CONTENT
3. TWO entries per persona. (Updated)
4. Any poetic style, No prose.
5. New and/or not so new.
6. Title your poem.
7. One image allowed.
8. Spoken-word OK w. text incl. for the deaf plz.
9. No collaborations.
10. Observe Respect.
11. Any questions, plz PM me.
Now, fly me to the Moon!🚀
LASH-FLASHING LEDA
I saw you harness
The whole damn moon with a smile-
"I'll take it!" you said.
The whole damn moon with a smile-
"I'll take it!" you said.
Written by SatInUGal
(Kumar)
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Crescent🌛
You force upon me
a misty recall, bringing
our duel seasons into focus
while segmenting an orange
as I absent-mindedly
walk the garden.
A waxing crescent moon
ascends for a
third evening in a row
racing the juice that runs
up my arms
for its first sticky taste.
These thoughts unchanging
despite
a day's unrelenting heat
that transforms a night
that’s still too warm to wear
my hair unbound.
We live different halves,
opposing lives
same endless horizon.
Faint light hooks the
ends of damp hair
in that moment of solstice
when how lovely the
scent of rind
won't wash off me for days.
Written by Jade-Pandora
(jade tiger)
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A NON-ENTRY
Everything, For Sale
What shall be more
magnificent
than steps, outside the Earth?
Boundaries broken, to
become antiquated
with time,
in time—
it all grows old, and
dead Presidents on paper
are traded for memories.
It’s all been sold—
the music
the masses
the world
and the moon shall be next.
They’ll find a way.
The very footprints of man
are given for wealth, and
Neil Armstrong waves goodbye
from heavenly heights,
auctioned off.
https://www.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=0+793+794+791+792+1893+1577+2088&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=%22armstrong+family+collection%22&limitTo=all&ic=homepage-search-A-K-071316
(^^that sort of saddened me, when I saw it while recently auctioning off some of my own rare ephemera items on that site.)
What shall be more
magnificent
than steps, outside the Earth?
Boundaries broken, to
become antiquated
with time,
in time—
it all grows old, and
dead Presidents on paper
are traded for memories.
It’s all been sold—
the music
the masses
the world
and the moon shall be next.
They’ll find a way.
The very footprints of man
are given for wealth, and
Neil Armstrong waves goodbye
from heavenly heights,
auctioned off.
https://www.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=0+793+794+791+792+1893+1577+2088&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=%22armstrong+family+collection%22&limitTo=all&ic=homepage-search-A-K-071316
(^^that sort of saddened me, when I saw it while recently auctioning off some of my own rare ephemera items on that site.)
A Child of God
To wrap my head around
the fifty years since a man
first set foot on the moon,
is easy for a child of God.
Who, in his robed arms
before I could walk,
would gently lift to cradle me
from a small nightlight's
shadow cast into a crib,
and while the house slept,
took me there
through the mist,
beyond the grasp of earth,
the blue marble.
And the sun was a star,
lighting up the moonscape
all around me
as God showed me that
this place too had been a
world he had made,
and I coo’d at his words
which I heard in my head.
And I didn’t know
I wouldn’t see him again
‘till I was all grown.
But I remember then
as he took me back home
how I hoped one day to play
with other children there
on our way to heaven.
Written by Heaven_sent_Kathy
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Revisit
I rise above you
A reflection
Look down upon you
Sign of protection
You no longer visit
My cratered ground
Here I wait
As the years go around
I have changed over time
Grown, matured
New lands to explore
That is assured
A reflection
Look down upon you
Sign of protection
You no longer visit
My cratered ground
Here I wait
As the years go around
I have changed over time
Grown, matured
New lands to explore
That is assured
Written by spacemod69
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of the sun's pournami blooms ....& the mutagenic skies
fringy flaky layered ungathering disarrays
flown in black and white & all shades in between
are their mysteriously running zebraic spree
in vagrant motions of latent intentions
try vandalizing her ripened complexions
when their dubious lips of prolific limelight focus
are in the vociferous dubbing of 'no harming' innocence
why then does they cling with indelibly stained treacherous fissures
of 'desires & lies' smoking beneath their tricky rows of tumbling dominoes
in painted synthetic facades of a blackened rosaceous allure...”
fears & tears never tear down her love-laden moon in full bloom
in resilient resurgence over mutagenic skies in chameleonic vibes
tulsi-Inflorescence are her sacredly drawn dense indigoish essence
in quintessential hymns of created magnum opus sacramental verses
fuelling & fusing forever through her infinite phasal deaths & rebirths
with the calling warrior sun of eternal vermilion, a magnetic communion
Written by summultima
(uma)
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