The Photo and Poetry challenge has captured the imagination of many I am pleased to say. One poet commented that “you don’t always want to write about your own stuff” and that this provided a trigger for doing “something different”. I had hoped that it would.
Thank you to everyone who sent in a poem in response to the first photograph by Chris Sims. I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the poems and was really glad that I did not have to make a decision as there was certainly more than one that would be a lovely addition to the book we hope to publish.
Whilst all of the poems received at least one vote, there was a clear winner this week:
One Night by Gill McEvoy
The closest runner up was Di Coffey’s Rainbow Night.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Do take a look at the poems for Week 2.
Congratulations to Gill and here again is her beautifully succinct and evocative poem together with the photograph that inspired it.
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One Night…
Mother, the moon has fallen from the sky!
The beautiful strings that held it up
are broken.
Gill McEvoy
