More entries to our Contest

Sue's Blog in conjunction with author Maura Hanrahan and Flanker Press is pleased to present new entries for the Poetry Contest - celebrating Literacy for All - and Labrador - the Heart of the North. This weekend is the cut-off date for adult entries while the youth category extends for a couple of weeks to allow entries from schools to come in.
You still have a couple of days - keep the entries coming - Sue's Blog readers are really enjoying them. CONTEST DETAILS


This fabulous entry comes from a busy student of Memorial University...
John Hoben


LABRADOR (WHAT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS SAY)

Land of rock,
where the grey sea
murmurs
into the hard hands
of Precambrian
wastes

And the cries
of wolves
draw the stars
like waves of fire
though the
still dark air

Disconsolate.
Unending. Immense

Buried
in the deep heart
of some
frozen memory
is an ancient longing
so intense.

It calls,
it burns;

And still
seething,

Waits.


LABRADOR (THE NORTHERN LIGHTS)

Land of rock,
where howling wolves
draw the stars
like waves of fire
though the still dark air;

What dancing light,
will guide the exiled king,
Beneath drumming beat
of celestial wing,

To his grim
ancestral home?

John Hoben