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Contests : Margaret Reid Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2008 : High Distinction
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Not openly, as others loved, loved we,
Lovers by night who dissembled by day,
Were eager to debate a simile
Or parse a metaphor, but balked to say
A word in harmless badinage; nor dared
To tease or touch, or even be alone,
Till candled night enclosed us—bodies bared,
Our books aside, all inhibitions flown:
Now, though no more the lovers that we were,
Dissemblers still are we: in company
Convivial and bright, smiling we share
Our moment, touch, and part, lest any see
That had you had less conscience, I more will,
We had these many years been lovers still.
This poem won a High Distinction award in the 2008 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Author Frank Salvidio received a $200 award. Winning Writers assists this contest. Copyright is reserved to the author.
About Frank Salvidio
In addition to poems which have appeared in journals and anthologies, Frank Salvidio is the author of several books: Between Troy & Florence (original poems and translations), Sappho Says (translations of the poetry of Sappho of Lesbos), and translations of Dante's Vita Nuova and, most recently, the Inferno.
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