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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2007 : Aunty Myrtle
TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS
It was so wonderful
To hear from you and your poets again,
With the offer of awards and fame,
Especially during these troubled times.
The native uprising continues here.
All but gruesome poetry
Is out of the question.
Many good poets' bodies lie strewn about,
Most of them dismembered,
Or harpooned mercilessly.
The bad poets write on feverishly
At sixty characters or less per line,
In up to twenty lines,
Though we dare not leave the shelter of the hut in daylight.
The nights are worse:
The DRUMS.
Crocodiles are roaming free, feeding on the cadavers.
Now I risk all in the slender hope this message reaches you.
I have left my cheque book back at base camp,
Please send guns and money.
Sent as a joke to Poetry.com, this poem won an honorable mention in the 2007 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Author Aunty Myrtle received a cash prize of $72.95.
About Aunty Myrtle
Aunty Myrtle is a pen name of Mike Walsh, a Consulting Engineer and part-time poet aged 56 based in Darwin. He is currently contracted to a remote open cut mine on Groote Eylandt, Arnhem Land, two weeks on and one week off. With my partner quickSilver (Carol) working on a collection of Australian-flavoured verse and photography. We are recently proud to be published in the Inkwell Anthology (Mad Jock Publishers, proceeds to cancer research) and we have no hesitation in promoting The Poet's Inkwell as a fine international poetry workshop.
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