The Second Poetry Contest Winner –
SUMMER 2023
is Laurel Clabaugh
of Salisbury, North Carolina – USA
“In Good Flow”
By Laurel Clabaugh
The goodness of flow
Like a calm, clean stream
Fills and spills
Beyond the dream.
The steady day drones,
Patterns of living repeat,
All time blurs
Monotony fells the dream.
Sanctity neither easy nor hard,
Simply forgotten in the midst
Of all that is or seems.
Like a well, it dwells,
That sacred place of heart,
A place of peace, of art.
Of compassion unbiased.
Devotion undefiled
Brings great yield.
No mistake.
A snake in the garden,
Poison in the cup,
Apocalypse awaiting,
Denied.
For as long as the sacred flows
Through any noble being
All that seeks destruction
Cannot but wither before the dream.
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About the author:
I work full-time and part-time and write when I can squeeze it in. It doesn’t happen often enough. I enjoy sunshine, books, dragons, adventure and more trashy tv and romance novels than I’ll admit to in person. I have a husband and a daughter who I love dearly. ~Laurel Clabaugh
