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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2009 : James K. Zimmerman
SCORE: KIPLING 1, KEATS 0
it is a thing of beauty
to see Trudy fling
the nerf football so high
in the east
a trajectory that sings out
through the trees
to the stratosphere
but here, back on earth
the truth is that Booth
awaits the falling missile
hears the whistle of it
in the west
with superhuman ears
and wrests it from the sky
high in the arc of
one parabolic leap
and perhaps Kipling was right
and east really is east
and west is west
but the twain do finally meet
in the unity of nerf football
thrower and receiver
as one sublime entity
and finally it comes to this:
Trudy is Booth, Booth Trudy—
that is all ye know on nerf
and all ye need to know
Sent as a joke to the International Library of Poetry, this poem won an honorable mention in the 2009 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Author James K. Zimmerman received a cash prize of $72.95.
About James K. Zimmerman
Jim Zimmerman is the winner of the 2009 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, and his work appears (or will) in SLAB, Penumbra, Off Channel, Wild Leaf Press's 2009 Anthology, and ICON. He is totally confused about this Wergle Flomp thing, since he has absolutely no sense of humor and thought he was writing a sonnet to submit to the 2009 Give-Willie-a-Shake Imitation Shakespeare contest. He's not too disappointed to see his face on a website, though...
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