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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2010 : Jenny Doughty
TRAVELLERS' TALES
In olden days a traveller
once said "I saw a statue,
and lying nearby on the ground
its head was looking at you.
Indeed, it had an ugly face
with wrinkled lips, so you can tell
the man who made it years ago
must have known the guy quite well.
'My name is Ozymandias'
It said there, on the bottom.
'My country was quite big back then,'
But now it's pretty rotten."
This poem was a finalist in the 2010 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers.
About Jenny Doughty
Jenny Doughty is a British poet who has lived in Maine for almost eight years. She is a former English teacher, and Education Advisor to Penguin Books in the UK. In addition to poetry, she has also published the books Key Poets, an anthology of pre-20th century poetry, Historical Diaries, Letters and Journals, and Breakthroughs in Science under the name Jenny Green. Her short stories and articles have been published in a number of magazines which include Bella magazine, Parenting, and First Steps, where she also did a stint as an agony aunt (Brit-speak for a person like Dear Abby who offers answers to readers' problems). In the United States, her poems have been featured in Gestalt Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Pulse online magazine.
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