Poetry Competition

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Tender Memories Of You by Carl Harris - 1st Place

Etched in the corners of my mind
Are those tender memories of you
Where I wander searching to find
Some little piece of you that is true.

Oh, it seems so long ago today
That we went our separate ways,
There was just nothing left to say.
Foolish me, thought it was a phase.

One old memory lingers the best,
Of my listening to your heartbeat,
My ear pressed upon your breast,
The finest and most intimate treat.

Shades of gray now touch my hair
For what we had was so long ago;
Even now I seek you everywhere,
As in my heart I still love you so.

Someday our paths will again cross
When we shall be together once more,
For I will no longer regret our loss
But love you more than I did before.

In The Closet by Sylvia Leusner - 2nd Place

I was in the closet
I guess you could say,
I’d write my poems
Then put them away.

In to a bag
Is where they would go,
Saved for the future
Just waiting to show.

Every so often
I’d read them to friends,
Then back to the closet
To hide them again.

All through the years
My collection has grown,
Waiting for me
To find them a home.

Now here they are
These poems of mine,
On this wonderful website
Being posted online.

Finally freed from
The closet they’d known,
And now they have
A life of their own.

Herzunterbrecher by Andrew Mercieca
Tödliche Liebe - 3rd Place

I see it there

Parched
An arid wasteland in your hands

I note the filigree of cracks
Patched
Yet still there

My vision blurs
Or perhaps it’s just your trembling

I blink away the blood in my mind
Just catching it’s fall
As you bleed tears
Upon parchment

It lies crumbling at your feet
Bereft of sanity

It is only then I realise
It was your heart that fell broken

Mine looks on wondering
Quietly loathing what I have done

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Mad Jock Publishers are pleased to announce their first ever Poetry competition.

A prize of £100 will go the the winner with a £50 runner up prize.

The winning poet will have the opportunity to get their own poetry book published by Mad Jock Publishers at no charge. The book will be 100 A5 pages and designed to Mad Jock Publishers standards.

All entries will also be published in an anthology of poetry with the name being decided by the runner up in the competition. A copy of this anthology will be sent free of charge to every poet who has sent an entry fee to enter the competition.

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