December IPBC Nominations, January 2008 Competition Options

[AMETHYST]

I would like to nomiate this for IBPC Competition because of it's light tone, yet heavy content - The dramatic voice is exemplary in excellence of the craft. I especially felt the capture of inner emotions and how so much detail is included into such a small verse. Excellent poem.

Time Piece by Frances Kennedy



Whoever said time heals all wounds has lied
like those who make the claim forgiveness brings
forgetting sooner. Sorrow, stripped of pride,
has little aptitude for hope that springs
eternally in hearts less slung by slings
and arrows, or with fortitude not mine.
Unreasoned passion, stemmed, stills everything
except the coiled impulse to unwind,
pretending on the face of it that I’m just fine.

MFK Buckley

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