So, I have some relatively exciting news. The Greater Cincinnati Writers League is an organization whose focus is poetry; every fall they have a poetry contest. I entered it for the first time this year, and I got a letter today informing me that, although I'm not one of the first-, second-, or third-place winners, I *am* Second Honorable Mention. Out of 75 entries.
Which I think is pretty damn cool, considering I just started writing poetry last year and this is the first poetry contest I ever entered.
t /blowing own horn
Woo, Tep, you're fabulous!
(and remember, we knew you before you were famous)
I'm pretty excited. It was, in fact, the first poem I wrote when I started writing them last year.
I am eating bad calamari in celebration.
t waves writing pompoms for Teppy
Can we have a celebratory re-post of said poem??
Congrats!
t scuffing toe in dirt and beaming
Autumn Morning
Rebirth comes
not in
budding branches and
fresh new green
but in a
bold sudden
tympani of color,
russet and gold and flame.
Not in the
gentle warmth,
spreading slowly outward
after the thaw
but in the
crisp snap
of air made new,
respite from the heat.
Yay, Teppy!!! That's fantastic.
Oh, I remember liking that one. Congratulations!
