My Submission
Please consider this for your submission
I had to enter and, from you, want the honor
And now I ask your literary permission
To enter like a bouquet with another flower.
I could write, like I have, about love
So many verses to this subject belong
But to your judges their merit must prove
So, we both to these finest memories long.
About that love that makes the universe live
Like the Rose where its petals too soon fall
And that the best in life to me once did give
And its hold on my memories each night call.
Maybe politics, so much here I could write
Looks like there is a challenge we did not foresee
But I ultimately believe we will do what’s right
Our freedom always hard fought, never free.
And now there is on our freedom a direct assault
From the beginning a battle that has been waged
To let it go each one of us will be at fault
No excuse seeing what goodness has arranged.
I could write about the vagaries and majesty of nature
How on this one planet our indebtedness share
That its fragility is what we can all be sure
And for our world can agree we should all care.
How our love is like the Spring of our day’s dawn
And its loss like cruelty of Winter’s soulless cold
And that our world to its preservation drawn
For the love we all share first know nature’s hold.
Or a few lines about the evil that threatens it all
Easy to do, all we need to do is look around
To me, here is where we must all answer the call
In our fight to preserve our goodness, our greatness found.
A battle that we have seen through time
A win here, a loss there, interpreting the outcome
So, I hope that these lines sufficient in rhyme
To express what we must finally overcome.
This is my contribution to all of this artistry
Knowing the poets who present their own vision
Let this show each work adds to its legacy
And that this is my own humble submission.