Written as the idea truly interested me but the sponsor does not
allow the titles to be from ones own poetry, thus neither version
can be submitted in the contest. As he "has since" removed the note
saying one could use ones own titles(which I did), and list the titles
but not the name thus per contest rules keeping the name of the poet
entering unknown. So here I present both the sonnet version-- done
because I o dearly and truly love sonnets -- and also the 20 titles version.
I myself, greatly prefer the one composed as a sonnet.....
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Fourteen Titles, A Beautiful New Birth
In a sad blindness, one may yet find hope
Sweet romance is in truth a healing balm
What in Life, can we truly ever hold
True to Heart, an old poet's solemn vow
Drowned in passionate depths of our deep love
Come to me Love, so that tender heart swells
O' broken heart, tis now thy time to mend
In thy love-realm I would gladly live and die
Caressing Virgin soil, with soft caring hands
I beg to yet again kiss thy sweet precious lips
As cool winds grace soft emerging twilight
Where Nature's beauty and man's design meet
There Winter's lonely fallows deeply dream
Where Weeping Willows in silent peace grow
Robert J. Lindley,
unrhyming sonnet, 7-22-2019
Only 14 titles, from 20 friends Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Richard Lamoureux
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free verse version- only fourteen titles, of twenty needed for a contest theme ....
Twenty Titles, A Beautiful New Birth
In a sad blindness, one may yet find hope
Sweet romance is in truth a healing balm
What in Life, can we truly ever hold
True to Heart, an old poet's solemn vow
Drowned in passionate depths of our deep love
Come to me Love, so that tender heart swells
O' broken heart, tis now thy time to mend
In thy love-realm I would gladly live and die
Caressing Virgin soil, with soft caring hands
I beg to yet again kiss thy sweet precious lips
As cool winds grace soft emerging twilight
Where Nature's beauty and man's design meet
There Winter's lonely fallows deeply dream
Where weeping willows in silent peace grow
Seeds sprouted from deep within mother Earth
Fair maiden, forever this true love hold
Wide eyes absorbing true magical scene
Waterfalls in rainbows where we shall play
I am laid bare, naked with nothing to hide
Shall we believe in that promise forsworn
Robert J. Lindley,
free verse, 7-22-2019
Only 14 titles of 20 titles from, "20 friends Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by: Richard Lamoureux
Time used was two hours 41 minutes.
Then I check and see he has removed the provision
allowing all titles could be from the poet entering.
Yet, I am pleased to have created both of these poems. -Tyr
Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 07-22-2019 at 08:30 PM.
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