| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
| Second Place Winner, October 2009 | |
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FORBIDDEN LULLABY Walter Schwim (Mosaic Musings) Let my thoughts tonight caress you as the moon does to the sea with a rhythm slow and ancient in a flowing liquid glee. May the cycles of the cosmos herald rising of a tide that will float us off together on an everlasting ride. Hold me tightly as we venture on our voyage though the skies so my warmth will still surround you when tomorrow you arise. For by daybreak I must leave you to atone a life of sin until turning of the heavens drops a key to let you in. Comments by judge Majid Naficy: “This is a smooth satirical poem about a ‘forbidden’ love. To understand the poem, the word ‘thoughts’ in the first line is crucial. The image presented in the last stanza leaves us with a sacrilegious question: Who is living upstairs? A generous God in the heavens or the narrator who wishes to drop the key for the lover awaiting downstairs?”
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