Rhapsody Posted August 23, 2003 Report Posted August 23, 2003 From a contest on poetry.com a year ago. Short and sweet. 1) Challenged poets to create a short poem using the words "doubt" and "reason". Turbulence! The river rages Against the dam, erect for ages My doubt returns, a flood downstream And reason crumbles before my dream 2) Challanged poets to idealize the birdsong in the morning. Hark fast to the starling's flute Lark's sweet harp & thrush's lute Aurora's halo, her gilded ring Bids me now to take to wing 3) Gave a pic of a woman peering through her Venetian blinds and asked us to evoke a mood. What treads my walkway Today, today? Mailman, dog Or fairy fey? 4) Gave a pic of a pair of wrinkled hands folded together. Weather-worn my hands may be Bound to my toil, never free
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