Jamie Wasserman

The Melic Review is sponsoring a Poetry contest. The winning poems will be published in the June issue.

The contest is open to all subjects and forms but we will not accept previously published work.

PRIZES

First Place - $25.00 and featured poem in The Melic Review

Second Place - $15 and publication

Third Place - $10 and publication

Honorable mentions(2) - publication in The Melic's forthcoming issue

Guidlines Submit no more than 5 poems in ASCI format to dreamking7@juno.com (Please note: poems must be sent to this address or they will not be read!) Include your name and address and a short bio (no more than 50 words).

Winners will be announced June 1st ,1998.

Just added! The Round Table- Writers' Forum, The Poetry Super Highway Chatroom, and coming soon: Light Verse!

-- Jamie Wasserman (jamie23@erols.com), May 01, 1998

Answers

Lollipop

Conure by birth, almost human in nature a spirit so strong and prevailing I call it a she.

Displaying great vanity, she bathes herself splashing all within reach until the ritual of priming ends with the taming of her brilliant feathers in confusing but marvelous disorder. Egocentric she is also eccentric loyal to only a few and even those singled out in affection suffer calamitous wounds if such preferred victim does not acquiesce to being a slave to her whims.

When enough is enough and she is back in her cage condemned to exile it never lasts too long because her loud squawks force the victim's surrender and once again she finds a perch on a comfortable shoulder while searching for lips eager to kiss.

Tiring of kisses she wiggles downwards until she rests in a bosomy nest peeking only to show the insolence of one self-possessed!

-- Ines Twomey (iot@nettally.com), May 23, 1998.