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The Top 5 Poems of the Month

March 2004

Our winning poet for March is Susan Andrews.
Read Susan Andrews' biography and more of her poems

Writer's Block

Bright bold colours fade
From primary to pastel,
Washes bleed into a dirty
Grey, words weaken, diluting
Into a melancholy nothing;
Imagination locked away
Four walls filtering your
Thoughts;
Blindfolded and handcuffed
By a powerful void, drowning
In solitary confinement;
Forced words gouging at paper
Like a charcoal knife, you cut-
Ripping and tearing to erase
The insignificant words that
Appear, spitting out at you
Like an enemy, foreign language;
With expectations extinguished
You freefall... spiralling further
And further no splinter of hope
To cling to as you plunge into
A maddening nonentity, your
Lost soul cadged within itself
Your psyche your prison-
Damned forever in the womb
Of writers block;

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Here are the other four poems chosen by our imprint editors as winning poems for March. All other poems submitted for the Top 5 Poems of the Month for March are being considered for various anthologies.

Bubbles the Buff Bride

There once was a princess, seven foot four
She was a hairy, meat-eating carnivore
Her voice was a belch she could wrestle a bear
And to disobey her, now that was a dare

Testosterone pumped veins and eyes like fire
She was a mean-ass girl and a confident liar
A man once mentioned her thick monobrow
The depths of the ocean is where he lies now

This furry princess, her name was bubbles
But for royalty she had many troubles
Every man she met had fled from the lands
When they had seen her hairy man-hands

She was all alone with no-one to marry
Though she had met every Tom, Dick and Harry
In nearby lands men became quite rare
They'd heard of bubbles and her masculine hair

Then one summer's day a jester came by
With a skip in his step and a twinkling eye
The charm of James bond, the looks of Brad Pitt
A new man in town, this could be it!

This Jester was called by the name of Frey
He was to meet Bubbles that very day
He was sent up to the castle's tower
To meet the princess, the queen of power

But when she asked him to be her guy
He unfortunately said the wrong reply
"You'll bloody marry me first and be my groom
Then you'll impress me in my bedroom!"

Frey hid under her bed from the strident roar
Before being pinned up against her thick door
She rolled up her sleeves and boomed, "What's your reply?"
A few seconds later Frey had a black eye

He ran from her room with a high-pitched yelp
Arms waving in the air screaming "help, help"
The ground started to tremble as bubbles gave chase
But with her great bounds, this was a doomed race

Frey hid in a corner and tried to stay calm
When a great taloned claw dug into his arm
He spun around but before he could wince
He was crushed into homosapian mince

Servants dressed Frey up in his unconscious state
For Bubbles' wedding, today was the date
The wedding went forth without further a due
And Frey awoke to the words, "I do"

Dave (15)

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In the InBetween

As the depths of the oceans become shallow
No one knows that she's not breathing
Hearing whispers in her isolation
She's far too lost for their saving.

In the windows and the doorways
Between the darkness and the light
Lies a place, a trance, a time, a dream
Revealed by the hour of midnight.

She hears it from the darkness
She sees it in the wind
Of the shadows that can smell your fear
Of the dreams that never end.

Between this world and the next
In a land only she can see
Lies a place where her soul is locked in a cage
Forever
In the InBetween

Christan P.

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Deepest

How my world moves,
Or where my dreams lead,
What roads I travel,
Or what truths I see,
No matter the distance, even so very far,
Your place eternally is here in my heart.
My love for you holds fast and strong,
Truer than any and eternally strong,
Deeper than river,
Swifter than sea,
Whatever you become or whomever I be.
No matter what happens,
This can never change,
The foundations that I'm built on,
Must remain the same.
You were at my beginning,
Your love will be at my end,
You are part of my spirit,
You are my closest friend.
And no matter the distance,
However we fare,
You above any,
Are my closest care.

Charlotte Venables

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Losing You

Look into my eyes
Take away this pain
From the war in my heart
That's lost you again
I couldn't stop the words
I got everything wrong
I can't find you anymore
This time you've really gone
I'm alone in this world
With my soul torn in two
I felt it rip from me
As it ran to be with you
It's holding on inside you
Can you hear it cry
My thoughts in the night
Don't leave me here to die
I still believe in you
Can you feel my scream
Save me from this void
From the emptiness I feel
Hold me in your arms
Take away the pain
Of this world that said we're wrong
And made me lose you again

Carol Wheeler

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