Lucent Dreaming 2021 Poetry and Short Story Competition Winners Announced!
We are delighted to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2021 Poetry and Short Story contests. The winning poems and short stories will appear below,
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A body
belly-up
floats –
pale yellow slick
gilt edged against
black waters
limbs bob
fan out unfold
a birthday suit
stretched naked
somewhere
between
sadness
and disgust
unsprung
it tickles
edges of
before
and after
a wave
of wind
curls
dreaming
ignores it
ruffles
past
an infinity
of hedges
the slimy thing
too silly
to bother
with its
lack of elegance
an ironic prince
to your pirouettes
We are delighted to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2021 Poetry and Short Story contests. The winning poems and short stories will appear below,
Pinocchio and Thumbelina are sitting down to supper. It’s the first thoroughly cooked fish in days, but neither of them are very hungry. They need
They were born from a flower deep in the pine forest of the Highlands, hiding in the earth, gasping for air. Angry from years of
