The One Stop Poetry Competition - Theme Autumn - Winner

One Shot Poetry enjoyed the submissions for our first poetry competition. What excellent poems including one by a thirteen year old which was fantastic. For those who didn't make this submission, our next competition will be forth coming.

Thank you to all who participated - we took delight in your work.

Some Warmth

by 

Daniel Hyland

It isn't as if we've done much with this year, is it?

I mean, it isn't true to say we'll ever be nostalgic toward these summer leaves,

the hot months cooled with tears and room-wide distance,

like a wide river Jordan neither one would cross.

They'll only fall away and wither.

This river will dry up, run off,

and hide itself in earth

until the earth

makes it a spring.

We'll be here like we are now: bones,

our summer leaves blown on to somewhere other,

as naked as the shivering trees.

Beautiful, would it be so difficult to meet

together in the riverbed

and kindle these dry bones,

building up,

between the two of us,

a flame?

This autumn could mean something

if we just set fire to the leaves.

Please check out more of Daniel's work 

         Fall Forest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/indykethdy/4215675834/sizes/m/in/photostream/

              Falling Leaf: http://www.flickr.com/photos/memotions/291998208/

Poets who were first and second runner up:
B Mackenzie  "When I dream of Autumn "

Gay Canongate  "Autumn's Dance"