MM's Selections for July Comp, Good luck! Options

[Psyche]

UPDATE: AS of July 6th (last day for submissions), Sergio has opted to have a different poem from a different board submitted this month. Best of luck!

Hi Lori!

I would like to nominate Sergio's (saore's) poem "Madness" for July's IBPC.

Here's the link: Madness

Madness by Sergio Ortiz

Weeping muse...
you make me fall
into a thick misty river,
the tundra where my poems gather.

Madness enters on the wind,
the jolt of a wild animal
thrashing from a spasm,
its eyes seek mine
in despair.

O my first dead—
Which winter squall
carries my disordered pages,
the shroud of tears we will inhabit,
the gravesite where all spit
their epitaphs?


I think it's a deftly written, delicate piece on the subject of muses and madness, reminiscent of some of Plato's thoughts, but in modern day language.

Cheers, Syl***

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Sylvia,

Please start a new topic for each poem that you'd like to nominate here in the IBPC forum. I do not always read all the poems and would not have noticed these were even nominated. I'll post them for you now since you've kindly posted all the tidbits.

Normally, all poems are due in no later that the third of each month, but due to the long holiday weekend here in the states, there were a few extra days. Our nominations need to be in no later than the 25th of each month to give me time to notify the members and them time to reply and tweak if they'd like to.


~Cleo