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Welcome to Garden 528 in
ARTELLA'S POETRY GARDENS OF FAME!

Click the links below to read the winning poems for the week of May 14, 2004.

Poetry Gardens of Fame Index

First Place
Second Place
Third Place
Fourth Place

FIRST PLACE WINNER

Diana Pardee

Unnamed

An onyx pendant at my waist

while crystal earrings frame her face

Somber smoke my subtle mask

as moonbeams penetrate her lace

Ebony transforms so subtly

Tempered by the dappled light

Her prisms penetrate my shadows

Dissolving residues of night.

Translucency defines the moment

mirrored images collide

Between the silvery reflections,

mystery will not subside.

Cautiously our souls are blending,

Both distinct and still untamed

In ecstasy remain secluded,

entwined together yet unnamed.

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SECOND PLACE WINNER

Kelly Walker

Autumn Chant

Now the autumn shutters in the rose's root,
Far and wide the ladders lean in among the fruit.
Now the autumn clambers up the trellised frame,
As the rose remembers the dust from which it came.

Brighter than the blossoms on the rose's bough.
Sits the wizened orange, bitter berry now.
Beauty never slumbers, for all is her name.
As the rose remembers the dust from which it came.

In loving memory of Winnie Louise Norris/Sarten

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THIRD PLACE WINNER

Denise Martin

Seasons of the Day

Misty morning cobwebs hang suspended
A strand of white haze wreathes the purple range.
We see which face the mountain has extended
Each morning when the moon and sun exchange.

The purple haze of midday summer heat
Invites the bees to court the open heads
They dangle from the lips to coat their feet
Dipping them into saffron pollen shreds

As evening silver dusk begins to creep
The lights like stars come out again to play
And living things prepare themselves for sleep
Renewing life force for another day.

At last the blanket night is drawn around
As all the daylight noise is stilled once more,
A distant warning bark the only sound.
We sleep to dream, once more the soul restore.

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FOURTH PLACE WINNER

Penny Hackett-Evans

Tears

Tears
leaking out
past my understanding
signal something quite important.
Do not ignore
their message.
Listen!

Tears
take me
in mysterious ways
past resistance and maturity
to deeper ground
where truth
lives.

Tears
call me
back to myself.
Grant me this excess.
When I cry,
I become
whole.

Tears
Tears
Tears

Leaking out
Call me!
Take me!

Past my understanding
In mysterious ways
Back to myself.

Grant me this excess
Past resistance and maturity
To something quite important

Do not ignore
The deeper ground
Where I cry.

Their message
Becomes my
Truth

Listen!

Live!

Whole!

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