Thanks to everyone who entered the Ezra Pound couplet competition. I got a few entries from some enthusiastic poets. I'm going to include all of them below as 'honourable mentions'. As Dave is an ex-English teacher and the closest thing to an unbiased judge that I had in the house, I asked him to judge the best entry. He chose one of Simone's. Simone, email me with your address and I'll send your prize to you!
Winning entry (by Simone)
A blogger bored puts pen to post,
A rocket launched, the world explodes.
Honourable mentions
Alison
Kitchen clutter crowding my bench
Termite mound casting shadows
Piles of tiny clothes and dusty toys
Bark fallen from growing gum
My boys giggle together
Glint of gold in muddy stream
Gordon
Knifed by jealousy.
Dog outside a manger.
Jacob
A farmer eating a piece of steak
A lion eating its fill on the plains
Simone
A thump of tail upon the ground,
Balloons and banner, 'welcome home!'
Zero still the comment tally
emptiness echoes through the valley
A look, a flash of eyes, a moment past
The book of knowing read first page to last.
5 comments:
Wow! I'm honoured!
I like Simone's one about the comment tally - made me laugh!
They were all great... thanks for entering!
Thanks Alison. No disrespect to the judge, but I thought the metaphor in your second couplet was the strongest of them all. I've re-written the first line in my mind (to rewrite someone else's poem on paper is beyond presumptuous...) to exploit the 'u' sound - putting 'dust' at the end of the line.
Thanks Simone - that makes sense!
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