Poetry Contest – Announcing the 1st Place Winner!

Here it is! The announcement you’ve all been waiting for… This poem…just wow. It touched MacKenzie and I both on a deeper level. Which is why we picked it. As I was reading it a sense of wonderment and a worshipful spirit awakened and I felt drawn to my knees. Not only that, but the specific words used and double meanings laced throughout caused us to ponder as we read. When you can provoke that kind of reaction in a poem, you know you have written a great one! I am most certain that you will have a similar reaction as you read this poem.  

Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly pronounce that Aberdeen Livingstone’s poem, Weight of Glory won first place! 

Weight of Glory   cool wind like an old friend, new adventure, purls over me, sifts through my hair stars spear light aeons old, falling like a kiss, newborn to me leaves like paint chips dance downward to find a new belonging place (because this is not the end) trees, bereft, bare, but blooming with hidden life for yet another spring (because there is always a new beginning)  my little corner of the universe illuminated with so much glory— shoes off, knees down, bow in awe (because this burning bush is blinding) somewhere the sea roars its celestial praises, uncontainable joy in the fury somewhere the mountains murmur in the twilight of a King far loftier somewhere the desert stretches, speechless, smeared with glory but here too—even here—the majesty makes mute (because sometimes words are not enough)  glory like a shroud over all the land, woven into its very fabric, seething with lava at its core (because Immanuel is God with us)  sparkling with every grain of dirt, singing with every cricket chirp (with us) and I am unmade, remade by this weight of glory