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Default Black Bough Press Autumn Micropoem competition

I have just come joint first in a competition.

It’s not a competition that's part of the poetry canon, it’s a very open online comp run on social media by a small Welsh Press (Black Bough poetry) which I really like for its friendliness, but I’m still amazingly pleased (I’ve been shortlisted for things before (Haiku Foundation’s touchstone award, and Iron Horse Literary Review 'First past the post' and others) but I've never actually won anything.


And, here’s the thing. I looked back at my entry and it uses rhythm - without even my thinking about it when I wrote it, it’s iambic in places, and it has internal half-rhymes! I’m learning, I’m learning!

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Could we read it?
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& with wild eyes the sky breathes silken dusk -
backlit leaves turn to skeleton keys
of amber, rust, & goldenrod - unlock
the taste of salt & honey, the scent of loss.
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Congrats Sarah!

Can you post it with image too?

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That's great, Sarah-Jane, congratulations! The lines you quote are beautiful: "backlit leaves turn to skeleton keys." Lyrical and tactile, like your visuals. Well done.
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Thank you!

Andrew, the lines here are the poem, it's just very short and imagistic - that's what Black bough is into & the competition was four lines only. But also you're very astute because the lines belong to a much longer draft of a (non-visual) poem that seems to be in the perennial state of 'half-written'.

Matt, here's the image. The image is just decorative - an illustration - a present. The words were the thing, with this one. The competition organisers knew that, too.

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Congratulations, Sarah-Jane
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