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Read Winning Poems from the OPA 2024 Adult Contest – Form Category Prose Poem

2024 OPA Adult Contest – Form Category Prose Poem – Winners Judge’s Overall Comments: While an old form, the prose poem has not been washed of its controversy. Poets have long argued the merit of the prose poem as a form—even contesting if it is a form at all, or just lovely prose. On the

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2024 – Prose Poem 2nd Place – Scott Dalgarno

Small Pleasures           “This is beautiful country.”                        John Brown commenting on the hills of Virginia                        riding to the gallows, sitting on his coffin. My father sits outdoors enjoying an evening breeze off the Delta. I see only a red dot, the glow of his cigarette, and wonder if God was taking a cigarette break when a

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Read Winning Poems from the 2024 OPA Adult Contest – Theme Category “The Coast”

2024 OPA Adult Contest – Theme Category “The Coast”– Winners Judge’s Overall Comments: Thanks to the OPA Conference Committee for the opportunity to judge poems in “The Coast” category in the 2024 Adult Contest. I was very impressed with the number of submissions in this category and by the quality of those submissions. It struck

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2024 – “The Coast” 3rd place – James Higgins

Moon Motion Sunset came, a gray mass showing nothing but waves crashing over rocks where gulls huddled hiding from evening mist & the sound is all nature     roar     crash advance    recede    eternal motion. How many generations have sat staring from this beach ebb & flow     seeing their own lives reflected       our coming our going   &

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