ENLIGHTENMENT

The day you sleep to dream
The day the world play around the peace you’ve keep
Walking on that lonely path
Be conscious of the awaiting cat

Some smiles are meant to fade
In those smiles’ give way for your thinking to prevail
Not all smiles are to be embrace
But never to be rejected openly

Keep not in mind that;
which walk not with time
Follow your heart desire
But never fail to inspire

Life is not much a good fun
Even a zany yob could testify
So, let not thou be deceive in that demon
That never last like a watering mouth lemon

Be observable to the beat around
Never hit your step in dim of dance
These beat are part of your breathing
Not all are given in rise to your continuous breathing

Kill the mind against you with sweetness
Lest the bitter part may point black at you
Cuddle with the development of time
Beware of the crime its commit

Mind the heart against you
Take not easy with those cherishing you
For this Angelic grace pipers
Are the hazardous dark face titans

Poetry Card Contest

Blue Mountain Arts

Announces Its Twenty-sixth Biannual Poetry Card Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2015
1st prize: $300 * 2nd prize: $150 * 3rd prize: $50

In addition, the winning poems will be displayed on our website sps.com.
Please read the following, then scroll down to submit your poem.

Poetry Contest Guidelines:

1. Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find that non-rhyming poetry reads better.
2. We suggest that you write about real emotions and feelings and that you have some special person or occasion in mind as you write.
3. Poems are judged on the basis of originality and uniqueness.
4. English-language entries only, please.
5. Enter as often as you like!

Poetry Contest Rules

All entries must be the original creation of the submitting author. All rights to the entries must be owned by the author and shall remain the property of the author. The author gives permission to Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. to publish and display the entry on the Web (in electronic form only) if the entry is selected as a winner or finalist. Winners will be contacted within 45 days of the deadline date. Contest is open to everyone except employees of Blue Mountain Arts and their families. Void where prohibited.

How to Submit

Simply complete the contest form below, or if you prefer, you may send your submission via snail mail* to:

Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Card Contest,
P.O. Box 1007, Dept. E,
Boulder, CO 80306.

       OR

Follow this link to submit online: http://www.sps.com/poetry/

The Political Poet: Honorable Mention

The Political Poet: Honorable Mention: The Forsaken Tradition As we sit waiting in our illusion mind We await none but of the elusive time The birds in their nest Y...
An honorable mention Certificate won by Ogoh Owulo Alex click The Political Poet: Honorable Mention 
to read the awarded poem

THE SEASON MOOD

Jumping the croaky zenith tree

A bird of white swaying free

The carcass of bone scattered to see

The midst of harmattan the fairy winter sea

A season coloured with red-white eve

Being new born not to that of Adam and Eve

But the birth of whom could calm the sea

THE WINTER LOVER

Let not the moon be our fans

As it only makes friend not much in winter

When hands are freeze

To seek a companion

Then the moon shall be lonely

We shall play with thought

Forgetting about being holy

Freely and hidden from sight

 

THE MESSENGER

Oh! You  messenger

Who stings without our knowledge

You portray your invisible to wickedness

In revenge for you being cast into darkness

You Omnipresence messenger

Full of pride and control

Eager for power on our planet

As you are being defeated from yours

You creator of short route to hade

Making the face of our lovely one’s fade

You strike most of those with no hope of paradise

Making their years on earth paralyze

You autocratic leader

Wishing to control every aspect of power

You did control most of our desire

Acting to be our messiah

As you never did make our emotion steady

You Omnipresence messenger

Shall your Omnipresence save you on that day?

When your face shall be uprooted to light

Not in light, but the short route to hade

In you shall dwell

With our lovely one’s with no hope of paradise.