Poetica Christi Press poetry competition results

Feeling very honoured to have my poetry acknowledged and affirmed in the Poetic Christi Press  Poetry Competition.

Unable to be at the Melbourne launch of the much anticipated Anthology

A New Day Dawns 

but look forward to receiving my copy of the Anthology very soon.

Fifth symphony     Highly commended

Colleen Keating

Vaughan Williams
composed his symphony
on fire-watch

barrages of bombs dropped
nightly enflamed his city
no air raid shelter

for him as he pocketed
his note pad and pen
fought in the crucible

of siren-moans
cries for help
and from the dark

composed music that plays
like a mountain brook
tumbling

in a moment
that brims
with a tomorrow

And to be included in a new Anthology  called

A NEW DAY DAWNS

an anthology of poems

edited

by Janette Fernando

WINNERS OF THE 2024 COMPETITION

A new day dawns

Poetica Christi Press poetry Competition 2024

Judge: Winner:

Tru Dowling
Wild With Scrub – Ellen Shelley

Runner-up:
Highly Commended: Fifth Symphony – Colleen Keating
Highly Commended:A Cool September Eve – Ellen Shelley
High Jinx – Laurie Keim

Commended
Mulch – Cathy Altmann
A Saint in Cobalt & Ochre – David Terelinck
Tacet – Bethany Evans
My Light Not Spent – Denise Parker
Sunset in Geraldton – Michael Genoni
Bleeding Hearts – Kate O’Neil
What the Water Gave Me – Jemma van Loenen
The Morning Star Guides Me On – Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Oriental Travel Trilogy – Stefan Dubczuk
Herm Island, Channel Islands, September 2023 –
Mary Jones Not About Dancing – Wendy Fleming
Sonnet – a Feather – Mocco Wollert
John – Claire Watson
Let’s Do It – Edith Speers
Janus-faced – Jason Beale
Polynesia, le ciel – Colleen Keating
Homecoming –Suzette Thompson
Blue-eyed Boy – Kay Cairns
On the Cusp of Morning – Claire Watson
Every Day I Wake – Janeen Samuel
Awakened – Wendy Fleming

My second poem Commended and to be published I will share her too

Polynesia, le ciel

Colleen Keating

It’s not ‘brothers, we must die,’ it is rather, ‘brothers, we must live’*

about light and colour he was never wrong
Henri Matisse knew from his youth
their startling wonder
how they exude a lighthouse authority
how they uplift human nature
when the world weighs low
and how when clouds of war
dim the sun
their illumination of hope can be forgotten
as in deepest night
it is easy to forget dawn returns

in Matisse’s Le Ciel
the lightness of joy fills the air
with a patchwork of his blues –
light and dark
alternating in and out
his cut-out sculptures of birds
float on the air
lift up dive whirl spin
ethereal in white
and dancing stars glint like enamel
or they could be flowers of joy
bordered by acanthus leaves
swaying hypnotically
reminding us to live

*H. Matisse (1946)

 

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