Poetry competition CLOSED 15th March 2014 8:51pm
WINNER
Quill-in-Heart (Tony Pena)
Quill-in-Heart (Tony Pena)
All roads lead...
Anonymous
Very nice. Refreshing to hear from someone who might know truth from experience.
Anonymous
Very nice, Tony Pena, to hear from someone who seems to know truth from experience.
Anonymous
Where All Roads Lead
All roads lead to a valley between the peaks
of the Smokies
where a wood burning stove puffs smoke signals
past the outhouse and the still
just beyond run-off point
where the best of eighteen-wheelers lose to physics
up the path behind the Bradford Pears
beside the stream that holds the smartest trout
living south of the Mason-Dixon line
where the winds on Blowing Rock remember their path
and the old men once found answers
the waterfall that roars an echo from lost point
near the cavern with the Stalagmite that make
music from the condensation for the song of the forest
needn't wear a signpost if you listen
it's right there for the lost or found
we all get there eventually and some of us remain
All roads lead to a valley between the peaks
of the Smokies
where a wood burning stove puffs smoke signals
past the outhouse and the still
just beyond run-off point
where the best of eighteen-wheelers lose to physics
up the path behind the Bradford Pears
beside the stream that holds the smartest trout
living south of the Mason-Dixon line
where the winds on Blowing Rock remember their path
and the old men once found answers
the waterfall that roars an echo from lost point
near the cavern with the Stalagmite that make
music from the condensation for the song of the forest
needn't wear a signpost if you listen
it's right there for the lost or found
we all get there eventually and some of us remain
