Thank you to everyone who sent in poems for this week’s challenge. There was a superb range from the moving to the humorous.
Thank you to everyone who took time to vote, This is much appreciated and resulted in every poem receiving at least one vote and Poem 5 (by Andy Scotson) and Poem 6 (Di Coffey) engaging in a closely fought contest with Di Coffey’s poem coming out on top by just one vote.
Di’s poem received 11 votes and Andy’s ten.
Congratulations to Di Coffey and well done to Andy Scotson for coming so close to winning.
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Here is the winning poem along with the photograph (by Taz Baldwin) that inspired it:
Speeding Backwards
I feel drizzle
dampen my hair
but I’m not cold.
Just angry.
The hedgerows
are racing me.
brambles blur,
blackberries tumble.
Cows, waiting
to be milked,
squelch in pongy mud
around field gates
and a horse
whinnies, startled
by the swoosh
as I sail past.
If I skate backwards
I’ll turn the clock back
to when Mum and Dad
were happy.
To a time when
I was happy.
When we were a family.
Before Dad left us.
Di Coffey
