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Poetry
Contest #19 .
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October
15, 1999
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Melody Marsden, Nelson, British
Columbia -- The ‘Backseat
Lament’ (shown below).
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Renee Ammendolia of Cambridge,
Ont. -- The Painter
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Third, Angela Doucet,
Lake
Echo, NS; Treasures;
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Fourth, Anna Best,
Oliver, BC; The Old Coombs Place
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Fifth,
Melody Marsden, Nelson,
BC;
Jenny Meredith;
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Sixth, Diane R. Unger,
Bolton, Ont.; A Mourning
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Seventh, PJ Duane,
Surrey,
BC;
Blurred Vision;
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Eighth, Sharon Helberg,
Kelowna, BC; To My Son on a Snowy Morning
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Ninth,
Jo-AnnGodfrey,
Sherwood Park, Alberta; Refusing
the Season;
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Tenth, Ms. Buddy Ham, Oliver,
BC; The Visitor (A Siamese Male Cat)
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Eleventh,
Elva MacKay,
Prince George, BC; So Little
Time;
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Twelfth,
Slawek Rapala, Guelph, Ont.; A Lover’s
Journey.
Honourable Mentions: Aldona
Dziedziejko, Burnaby, BC; Baltic Explosion;
Dolores M. Miller, New
Hope, PA, Winter Wonderland;
Brian Burke, Vancouver, BC, North
West
Passage.
FIRST PLACE POEM
The ‘Backseat Lament’
By Melody Marsden
Nelson, British Columbia
You know, it all starts out quite innocently…
When a voice pipes up to ask:
“Daddy, oh daddy, what time is it?”
And he’s calm, yes, up to the task…
In no time at all, that backseat
voice
Is heard to inquire, again:
“Daddy, oh daddy, what time is it?”
And ‘daddy’ shows signs of strain.
“Are we there yet? Are we
there yet?”
Becomes the anthem of the hour,
And that traitorous sunshine of earlier
Has, now, turned to a downright shower!
“Ma, ma, he’s POKING
me!”
She wails with an outraged cry.
“That’s nuthin’,” brother informs us,
“She stuck her finger in my eye.”
And so it goes, with minutes
like ‘snails’
And as you begin to tire,
You pass the time in fond remembrance
Of those ads that say: Sitter for Hire.
“We’re hungry!” “We’re
thirsty!”
“We haf’ta make a STOP!”
“Mommy, mommy, MOMMY,
Can we PLEASE have some pop?”
Oh, the ‘backseat lament’ is
heard everywhere
By parents near and far…
When they’re brave enough, to venture forth
With small children in the car!
Copyright
(c) 2004 for the author, all rights reserved.
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