The International Poetry Contest

1.

Upside up
worn out
inside out
this love near here
where people actually touch:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES

2.

to wander
like a coffee break concert
loudest music
souls fading
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why can't I  tell you how I feel
relate to me oh please
sex is #3
the first two shouldn't be
because of any sound higher than you
conspire don't let go:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES

3.

the sky I knew
filled with greenish-blue
and through it broke a happy sun
the sum of symbolic perfection
a soft drum
simple guitar
vibrating not a thing
"ring," is that you:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES

4.

I am so glad to believe
my eyes don't need wine
to sing is to experience an immortality of sorts
on a frozen tennis court flirting
missed while jumping over the net
it was taken down for the winter, anyway:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES

5.

hell, the way it's goin even Indy can slow down
maybe give us a look who can run faster
perhaps someone in another country
like our own dead with nothing to eat
or to take a seat in the opera hall
the fall was musical not the boring rabbit trick:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES

6.

only your lips part me
make me unable to stand for long periods
not exactly tranquility
but a message for those who look not on a bathroom wall
which won first place in an International Poetry Contest
none of this will ever come back again because you've gone:
TURTLE MOVIN BLUES