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Contests : Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2008 : Highly Commended
NIGHTFALL
It is dark now
a cloud benumbed moon
grieves for memory lost
the distraught wind
stalks between high grasses
seeking its youth
owls roost, soft feathered
in darkened poplars
creatures unseen
move inevitably
to their nightly fate
insects buzz and hum
demented dervish dirges
for those soon doomed
while the tide runs out
whispering secrets
to the reed-bound shore
of a lonely darkened estuary
awake in star crazed darkness
embracing eternity.
This poem won a Highly Commended award in the 2008 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Author Tom Berman received a $100 award. Winning Writers assists this contest. Copyright is reserved to the author.
About Tom Berman
Tom Berman has been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee, Israel for over 50 years. He grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia with the Kindertransport in 1939. He is a scientist whose poetry has been published here and there, now and again, and was Editor in Chief of the annual Voices Israel Anthology from 2003 to 2006. Amazon.com is still trying to dispose of a book of his poems (Shards: A Handful of Verse). He is married with one wife, three daughters, seven granddaughters, one grandson and one dog.
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