Reposted from Poetics list: Goodreads and the ¡Poetry! group have partnered to create a contest to select a new poem each month for the Goodreads newsletter.
- Post your best poem (*one poem per person*) as a "comment" to the "call" post at the ¡Poetry! group discussion on Goodreads. CLICK HERE to post your poem
- Goodreads and our three judges, Wendy Babiak, Andrew Haley, and Ruth Bavetta, will select six poems as finalists to be voted on by the Goodreads community.
- ¡Poetry! group members will vote for the poem they like best (one vote per member). The poem with the most votes will be published in the Goodreads' newsletter – distributed each month to more than 2.5 million people!
Good luck & please post your best work!
Thanks,
Amy King
¡Poetry! Moderator
http://amyking.org
In Break Formation
ReplyDeleteThe indications used to come
like movie fighter planes in break
formation, one by one, the perfect
plummet, down and out. This time they’re
slower. But after supper, when I hear
her in the kitchen hum again, hum
higher, higher, till my ears are
numb, I remember how it was
the last time: how she hummed
to Aramaic peaks, flung
supper plates across the kitchen
till I brought her by the shoulders
humming to the chair.
I remember how the final days
her eyelids, operating on their own,
rose and fell, how she strolled
among the children, winding tractors,
hugging dolls, how finally
I phoned and had them come again,
how I walked behind them
as they took her by the shoulders,
house dress in the breeze, slowly
down the walk and to the curbing,
watched them bend her in the back
seat of the squad again,
how I watched them pull away
and heard again the parliament
of neighbors talking.
Donal Mahoney
donalmahoney@charter.net
Thanks Donal for sharing your poem.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to submit it to the Goodreads contest too? If so, please remember that you need to submit directly to the Goodreads poetry forum page at the link in the main post.