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Winning Poems

Poet's Corner

(The following are the first place poem of Dwain Cromwell, and the fourth place poem of Michael Fiveash.)

Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist

"I dream my genesis...vision of new man strength, I seek the sun." Dylan Thomas

The Sunday afternoons dogs sleep Sun, I suppose, warms and winds Within a collie's dream.

Path wandering, I muse...

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What meadows grow golden beneath paw covered

Lids, and what Sabbath thoughts genesis

The mongrel's genuflection? Though secure

In man's blessing, his rational weaning,

Sweet would it be switching the crosses.

But enough; but path traces deeper woods

Warm and winding where subdued sunlight

Nestles in spots of crystal haze, where

The soft scent of stillness and the wind

Rustle of sedge whisper midst the wilderness.

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