Re-Post… We won! More Poetry Idol success.
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago in My life.This is a re-post from a week or two back, it really annoyed me that it didn’t go up on the main page so I thought I’d try posting it again:
On Tuesday 6th May, my sister Nebsy and I both won one of the heats of Poetry Idol, and now we’ll be in the final at Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival in August. We had both learned our poems off by heart and it was awesome to both win at the same time. Super joy!
Here’s our winning poems:
By me:
Writer’s Office Block
This is a poem about silence.
Silence is a virtue - if they’re not said,
Words won’t come back to hurt you.
But here silence falls like a tree in the forest,
Horrid and dishonest.
… Welcome to my office.
See, my muse stopped turning up for work,
So I fired him.
The death of depth is an apt end to a story about a black hole,
A ransacked soul and a truth too beautiful to be told.
How do you like my poem about silence?
Saying nothing, meaning nothing,
Walking down a highway to nowhere.
Good to see you, my friend, I’m fine, how do you fare?
See? Silence.
Worthless words that no wordsmith
Could work with to create anything worth knowing.
For knowledge is power, and power corrupts…
Or corruption empowers? Glowers from the silence
With a bunch of dead flowers,
Blue roses and red violets.
Saying nothing. Meaning nothing. Noise, not words.
And no imagery of birds could depict a world
Now devoid of flight and song; where right and wrong
Lost all relevance when my muse fired my conscience.
I knew I shouldn’t have made him Vice President.
It’s nice, isn’t it? When ulterior motives get demoted.
Devoted to this silence, I walk past the empty offices,
Empty promises and bad luck, doors slammed shut…
In more ways than one my company is bankrupt.
So I wrote a poem about silence -
And I think I’ve said too much already.
By Nebs:
If Such a Man Exists
I’m dreaming of a scheming demon,
Marinating in exhilaration,
Feeding his fixation not to dally,
Speeding, like a rally,
Seizing my hand,
Rolling an alley down an alley,
Achieving his plans,
We can all be happy as Larry,
If we meet his demands,
They can end in satisfaction;
A rash of rash actions,
Not a shrug and drug addiction.
It’s a blur of fact and fiction,
But it’s great for killing time.
If such a man exists,
I’m only waiting till he’s mine.
The next Poetry Idol is on Tuesday the 3rd of June, 6:30 pm at the St Kilda Public Library (near Balaclava station). It’s free to watch and there’s free wine and cheese and lots of nice people and some brilliant poets. Book a place at the library on 9209 6655.
If you yourself are a brilliant poet and want to perform for a chance to win prizes and of course the deep abiding love of the audience, book a place in the July or August heat by emailing the inventor of Poetry Idol, Michael Crane: mfcrane2000@yahoo.com
There’s more info about Poetry Idol on the Paradise Anthology Website.
And I’m more than happy to explain my poem if anyone’s interested.
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Well done you guys!!
And good luck at Fed Square in August - loved the poems too.
:)
hi gadfly and hi again lady c
well done on your success chaos, always said ewe woz good
Congratulations to you both! Clever Women.
Blessings and bliss