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Neopoet Challenge # 14 Contest Winner
This month our challenge series turns into a contest. Scribbler has won this month's contest with his poem, CONNECTION LOST (voice mail from the grave) Congratulations To Scribbler on such a fine poem. This month also has an honorable mention to Anna Severchuk
CONNECTION LOST (voice mail from the grave)
Slowly walking along three and twenty creek
downstream from the old rice fields
feeling all my old bones creak
but I ignore their appeals.
Ahead are some old Indian mounds
where warriors lay at their last rest.
They recline there making no sounds
hearts long silent in their chests
The mixture produced visuals;
flashes of what used to be
how their lives were to them most usual.
I felt they were inside of me.
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Comments
Candlewitch
Sun, 2022-05-01 06:39
hello,
congratulations to you both!
*hugs, Cat
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scribbler
Sun, 2022-05-01 12:51
Thank you
I'm always a bit astonished when I win a contest
Candlewitch
Sun, 2022-05-01 12:54
dear Scribbler,
good poem... you deserved to win!
*hugs, Cat
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When someone reads your work
And responds, please be courteous
And reply in kind, thanks.
Christopher Stuart
Wed, 2022-05-04 04:21
Connection Lost
Congratulations Scribbler, I have only ever really read one book in my life, BRAVE ARE MY PEOPLE. I love the history of the American Indians. I remember my favorite line , We love quiet, we suffer the mouse to play, when the reeves are rustled by the wind, we fear not, BRAVE ARE MY PEOPLE...... If only life could be that simple.
scribbler
Wed, 2022-05-04 10:31
Hi
There were also bad sides to being an American Indian but there are also bad sides to being American lol. Glad you dropped by