July 3, 2007

• 2007 Unannounced Poetry Contest Finalists

      And now the moment no one (I mean, everyone) has been waiting for:  the 2007 Unannounced Poetry Contest!  Despite the fact that I did not announce it (like the previous contest in July 2005), I once again received millions of entries from aspiring poets. 

      This time, instead of arbitrarily choosing a winner based upon their flattery of me (I mean the merit of their work), I have selected three worthy finalists.  Over the next few days I will post the lyrics and audio bits of each contestant reciting their poem.

      Once they are all posted, I will call upon the readers to select their favorite poet of the three.  At the end of a week or two, I will tally up the votes and take them into consideration when choosing the winner.

      Our first contestant claims to be a Mr. "No-Wit" Ahl from Danbury, Connecticut.  His poem, entitled "Nonsense" appears below:

  Nonsense

  in the sled-light of our forgotten meals,
  

  racing slowly across fields of mud,
  we pounce upon the swampy mountains.
  ne’er again shall our ears weave their prehensile lobes,
  like some dusty traveler’s tale, round twilight trunks
  of distant trees, unknown and old.  

  
  

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