We are pleased to announce the winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for Oct. - Dec. 2011...
Winner
Commentary:
"Trimester One" is a frightening take on a subject that is often written about in a more positive and oftentimes redundant manner. This poem strikes a slightly sinister tone. Alarmingly vivid metaphors such as "gnawing mice in winter" describe how draining emotionally and physically such an ordeal can be. Even the last lines echo a desperation in the urgency they convey. Though we don’t often see the need in comparing writers, we say this poem has a shadowy resemblance to Anne Sexton’s best work. She drew most of her inspiration from the inner-life ... this poem shines as an example of this and quite literally too.
Runner-Up
This six couplet poem is a fine example of potent imagery laced with a sense of the cynical. The poem begins with an image of a Beatles record playing backward, hinting at the poem's title, or vice versa, and ends with what seems like a fatalistic acceptance of the protagonist in the poem. What story it is telling must be left to the reader, but something foreboding lurks beneath the jarring metaphors which reveals an ironic interpretation of this piece’s very title. Orphanages, time-travelers, bleeding trees and a little ground tarantula garnish this rather layered dish of a poem.
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