I entered a poetry contest run by creative communications inc. early in the fall of last year and again on april 4th of this year. Both of my poems were selected to be published in anthologies of the contests. I am extremely happy about this.
The poems were called Unhidden and Soldier(author)
Here they are. Tell me what you think of them.
Unhidden
By Ethan King
2007-2008 School Year
I have never been a hidden man
I walk within plain sight
and yet none dare approach me
to find out what's inside
and as it goes unfettered
my thoughts my hopes my dreams
I continue moving slowly
as lonely as a stream
and so I find a hidden stream
and join it in its path
and continue moving slowly
to meet the ocean in its wrath
the ocean represents the whole
my stream is only one
and so ends the story
but my journey has just begun
Soldier (author)
by: Ethan King
I've been hobbled, me
a soldier born and bred.
I can't fight for what's right,
so I write it down instead
but I'm still a soldier
and as for the sword
not greater than, but equal is the written word
a time and place for both of these
we fight in war, we write in peace
some shed blood and some shed ink
others fight that I might think
and in this time and in this place
hand to hand and face to face
the sword is rusty, the knight, a churl
they didn't believe a pen could change the world.
I didn't win the contest that I entered last fall, but they are still voting on the spring 2008 contest. Wish me luck.
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