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Contests : Margaret Reid Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2007 : High Distinction
WINTERSCAPE
Showered by snowfalls as the branches break,
The forest path grows dim in evening dusk.
And owls reply, deep in the gloom awake,
Like ghostly mourners for earth's icy husk.
White over black, the snow-robed sentinels
Cover the rushing stream, black waters roll,
Resound through dream worlds, woods and fells,
Bewintered as the hush blankets the whole.
Like snow-wrapped boughs bend to the frozen earth
And sip black waters rushing beneath their root,
Frozen and bowed, the wintry soul athirst
Dips into perilous waters burbling at its foot.
What does the forest watch? What the stream see?
Frozen in silent darkness, they see me.
This poem won a High Distinction award in the 2007 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Author Rollin Lasseter received a $100 award. Winning Writers assists this contest. Copyright is reserved to the author.
About Rollin Lasseter
Rollin A. Lasseter retired in 2003 from the English faculty of the University of Dallas. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University, and attended Yale University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. His dissertation was on W.B. Yeats. He was Director of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky, where he received the Great Teacher Award twice. He was given tenure in the English Department at North Carolina State University. He did post-graduate work at the University of Notre Dame, and taught at St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana University at South Bend before joining the English faculty in 1992 at the University of Dallas. He designed a program for teaching poetry and composition for high school students which is now used in several private and parochial schools. For several years he taught Latin, Ancient History and Literature, and English Composition at an exemplary secondary school, Trinity School at Greenlawn, which his six children attended. He was Director of Curriculum at an independent Catholic school and continues as a consultant for curriculum. He is currently general editor and primary writer for a series of history textbooks for jr. high and high school students, the Catholic Schools Textbook Project.
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