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A reflection on advancing age. Winner Round 42 of the Newbies + Open Poetry Contest.
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A spell goes wrong.
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Snow Globe
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A Snowman States His Case. Winner of the My Word Contest, 12/20/2019.
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Twilight of the Year
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Poem about December without mentioning "December." Second in Senior Center Forum Contest.
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Billy Grubb at the Gates of Dawn
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A consideration of imagination based on Dark Dreamscapes Prompt #3 for December. Winner.
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Mongolian Eulogy
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Traditional Mongolian Poetry form for Oriental Poetry Contest. Winner Round 61.
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When Azmaroth Found Pelligrana in Erith
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If the title doesn't grab you, nothing I explain here will make things better.
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Relentless
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Grim, dark shapes of doom. Winner Week 2 at Dark Dreamscapes, October 2019.
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Gargoyle
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Personification of a gargoyle.
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Fall Poem
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Boat Race
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A Malay pantun (poetic form) about a boat race. HM in Oriental Poetry Contest 57.
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Halloween in the Pumpkin Patch
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A reflection on times past.
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Night Meeting
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Pumpkinhead at large.
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Dragon Poem
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Quatrains about a dragon. 1st place in Paper Doll Gang Form Poetry Contest September 2019.
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mGur on Spirit
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Tibetan poetic form called the mGur. Third place in Oriental Poetry Contest Round 55.
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On Others Flying
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Thoughts on planes flying above the house. Winner of Newbies + Open Poetry Round 37.
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What You Know Already
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An attempt at a love poem. HM in Shadows and Light Round 76, 10/15/19.
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Aground
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Old man in a nursing home. Winner of Rising to the Challenge Contest, Aug. 2019.
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Pines
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A poem about solitude amongst the pines.
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Poor Pilot Fish
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A poem recounting the struggles of a pilot fish.
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Homage to Les
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Poem written in remembrance of Les Murray. 3rd in Newbies + Open Poetry Contest.
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Sight.
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Thoughts on the loss of sight. Third place in Senior Center Forum Contest.
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Miracles
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A poem about miracles medical and divine. Third place in the Lighthouse Poetry Contest.
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A Little Church on the Lizard
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A poem about worship in a farming community in Cornwall
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For Andrea
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What Christmas means to me
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O Water
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The world in a drop of water
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A Tiny Black Beetle
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Bathroom inspiration and a beetle. Quill Award Winner 2019 for Nature.
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Zimbabwe Rain
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A memory of the rains in Africa. Third place winner in Shadows and Light Poetry Contest.
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If (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
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A consideration of life. Quill Award for Best Spritual/Religious.
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Paranoia
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Poem describing how paranoia feels
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Summertime
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A poem about the blues. Winner of SugarCube's Weekly Random Contest July Weeks 1&2 2019.
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Jun 1st, 2019
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