I have a two-fold offering for you this week. Firstly, at three o'clock the other morning I woke thinking along the lines of 'Wouldn't it be weird.' Secondly, the Poetry Society are accepting entrants for their annual competition and I include my entries below.
Is it weird?
Is it
weird to consider that the earth is round
spinning
benignly in space making hardly a sound?
That
what we hear - the noise and the fuss
is a
symphony playing to comfort us.
Is it
weird to consider when alone in my place
that
I'm the sole member of the human race?
Without
site or sound of any other,
there
is no evidence of friend or brother
Is it
weird to consider the existence of fish
who
swim the vast oceans but end on a dish,
who's
mind is too simple to appreciate
the
beauty of the soup that they populate?
Is it
weird to consider ?
I haven't finished this poem as yet. It is of the type that may never be finished, it will just keep getting longer!
CHALLENGE - Perhaps you would like to add the odd verse!
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The Poetry Society are currently accepting entries for their annual Poetry Competition. If you go to the above link there are a complete set of rules and methods of entering. I entered the following two efforts because I'm still dazzled by the amazing visit I made to Canada recently.
The Canadian Wilderness
Vast tracts of
uncluttered land
untouched by meddling
human hand.
Vertical cliffs of
wind-carved stone
towering conifers in
groups and alone.
Valleys carved by
long dead glaciers
u-shaped telling of
harsher winters.
V-shaped now gouged
by rapid streams
vertical waterfalls
on which sun gleams.
Voluminous bodies of
water shape the terrain
waiting for winter’s
hand to still them again.
No human interference
in most Canadian places
a country devoid of
people’s disgraces.
©David L Atkinson September
2013
No bears
We were promised black and wild
grizzly bears.
There would be cougar, maybe
moose and deer.
Bald eagles, osprey will display
their wares.
But it seems they always fail to
appear!
Neither in coach nor train did we
see them.
Wildlife in Canada plainly
missing.
Banff to Vancouver we didn’t hear
them!
Only man is frequently presenting.
Grouse Mountain held the answer
of grizzlies.
Sadly both wolves were out the
day we came!
Lumberjacks cavorted aloft
dizzily
Animal life’s agenda not the
same.
No one to blame for the creatures
missing
Rather the seasons turn round
progressing.
©David L Atkinson September 2013
God Bless
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