Poetry competition CLOSED 7th November 2019 12:01pm
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RUNNERS-UP: wallyroo92 and Heaven_sent_Kathy

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Environmental art call---AURORA, The seed

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SatInUGal
Kumar
Dangerous Mind
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I've actually seen her in concert! Fun!

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Zaynab_kamoonpury
Fire of Insight
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Play it on your lips

Wear a smile on your face,  
Wear a smile all day,  
For nothing you wear looks lovely without it
Smile away the day,
and watch the effect  
you pass around
It might just cheer up the not  
so gay
and happiness may well  
abound.
And don't you look your best  
when you do smile
No wonder you're asked to say  
'cheese' for a photo
but the trick is to wear it all  
the while
'To smile without distinction'  
be thy motto.:)
When someone creases their  
forehead into a frown
You curve your lips upward  
into a smile
Don't let their scowl get you  
down
They'd be the one to look the  
clown
while you show off your  
inspiring style.
If people stare 'n' glare at you
Return their glares and stares  
with a grinning smile
Keep smiling whether they boo  
or pooh pooh
They might just reset their  
mental file.
Thus forever flash your  
pearlywhites
They aren't meant merely for  
chow and bites.
Flash em' into a smile that  
lights
A crescent shaped smiley on  
the face
explore your own facial  
expression delights.:)
A smile is a sign of happiness right under your nose
Smile warmly like the sunshine, like the crescent moon
Even when the icy cold wind of discourtesy blows
Written by Zaynab_kamoonpury
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slipalong
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 1st Jan 2018
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Upon the wind

Verse 1
Some upon the wind they float
Propellers spinning down to earth
The sycamore that scatters seeds all round about
Conceved a sapling just like that

Verse 2
That spirits flight
And not see its shortened days
That autumn times, the equinox  
The fall from grace of gloried summers splay

Chorus  1
Piles of trunks in the logging truck
Stripped the bark, gone the woodpeckers hutch
Fortunes made by root and branch
They that felled the statuesque
Raise till just the roots protrude
Nothing left where the forest stood
The rape the green man always feels
Just commerce and its growing fields

Verse 3
Who will quell the fires hold
 Rain forest feels the draught of cold
Where longevity for the planets breath
The  torch will choke us all to death
And CO2 will kill as was foretold

Verse 4
For yonder lies that chasm of uncertanty
Our heads stuck in the sands of apathy
We were the one and only enemy
And nature lives by not word but deed
For now ours to suffer. just the same as she

 Chourus 2
Piles of trunks in the logging truck
Stripped bark, gone the woodpeckers hutch
Fortunes made by root and branch
Cut and run and leave just barren ground
Raise till just the roots protrude
Nothing left where the forest stood
The rape the green man always feels
The seeds we sow of selfish deeds

Verse 5
Now the time to hug that tree
Revel in its canopy
Its heart rings always multiply
Its sap of wisdom never dry

Repeat from start

 



 
Written by slipalong
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Heaven_sent_Kathy
Thought Provoker
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Seed

 
Will you fly when the time has come,
Do you hear in the canyon, drums?
Deep and throbbing the heart of Earth,
Gives you life as you rise from birth.
 
Feel the pain where you’re coming from.
Will you fly when the time has come?
Be the seed as it seeks the light,
You will know when the time is right.
 
Of the blue world that’s drying fast,
Find the storm where the rainbows last.
Will you fly when the time has come,
On the wind, what will you become?
 
All you hope is to hear the sound
Of a love pulsing all around.
Be the seed that feeds everyone.
Will you fly when the time has come?
Written by Heaven_sent_Kathy
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wallyroo92
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 11th July 2012
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What Have We Done?

 
I’m dying of thirst but I cannot drink,
The waters are poisoned,  
What have we done?
I’m famished but can’t eat,
The fruit is all spoiled,
Burned under the sun,
Oh what have we done?
 
The landscapes once green,
Are all now but a dream,
They have disappeared,
By the industrial machine.
 
The beautiful clear skies,
That once graced my eyes,
Are cold, dark and grey,
The blue has gone away.
 
The oceans aren’t clean,
All of its life now it seems,
Has left and vanished,
Never to be seen.
 
I’m dying of thirst but I cannot drink,
The waters are poisoned,
What have we done?
I’m famished but can’t eat,
The fruit is all spoiled,
Burned under the sun,
Oh what have we done?
 
The forests have burned,
Turned to ash and to dust,
And all the animals,
Scorched into the crust.
 
The mountains are gone,
They become wastelands,
And even the deserts,
Are now barren badlands,
 
The valleys now smoke,
With a hiss to the sky,
It’s seems like a nightmare,
Enough to make me cry.
 
I’m dying of thirst but I cannot drink
The waters are poisoned,
What have we done?
I’m famished but can’t eat,
The fruit is all spoiled,
Burned under the sun,
Oh what have we done?
 
But I found a seed,
Like hope that we need,
And so I pray to Mother,
To hear my plead,
 
I’m searching for water,
The wells are bone dry,
Still I have my faith,
Not all has gone awry.
 
And maybe my tears,
Will wet the earth,
And the seed will grow,
With hope for rebirth.
 
I’m dying of thirst but I cannot drink
The waters are poisoned,
What have we done?
I’m famished but can’t eat,
The fruit is all spoiled,
Burned under the sun,
But now a seed is planted
And hope has begun.
Written by wallyroo92
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crimsin
Unveiling
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yay Sky congratulations

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