1st World Poetry Call for Poems: The Many Faces of Love, deadline Jan.5, 2009
By worldpoetry on December 3, 2008 - 11:58pm
1st World Poetry Call for “The Many Faces of Love Poems”.
World Poetry would like submissions for our interactive display at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch for display February 20-27th on level three in the Literature Section.
We will be celebrating our 8th annual Gala at the Alma Van Dusen and Peter McKaye rooms at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St, Vancouver BC on February 27th at 7 PM.
We will have World Poetry volunteers at the Create a Poem Table at the Vancouver Public Library throughout the week.
Please send a one page poem in English or one poem in English and another language.
Theme: The Many Faces of Love. There are many types of love that can be explored in this display.
Font: New Romans, size 12.
Please put your name, city, country plus © sign at the bottom.
Poets from around the world are welcome.
This is a one time copyright only.
Deadline: January 5th, 2009.
You will be notified if your poem is accepted. Selected poems will be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show with your permission.
Please send your poems to: Ariadne Sawyer, World Poetry co-founder and co-host at: ariadnes@uniserve.com
For Her
I wanted to write a poem for my wife,
unable to verbally articulate her importance
to me. Instead I spent many months
writing on odd items, important only to me.
Life flowed, children and grandchildren
arrived, all with demands that nearly
broke her. Bystander in what I saw as
wifely work, I let them grind her down.
I worked on and off for a year, trying
to evoke on paper my love for her; celebrate
the work she had done. Finally there was
a poem I had the courage to present to her.
She cried at my meager work with joy,
strong woman tears for fourteen inept lines.
Jim Fowler
Watertown MA USA
© 2008 Jim Fowler
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