The winning poem for week 5 is Out of Darkness by Eileen Carney Hulme, written in response to the lovely photograph above by
Kate Blair.
Thank you so much once again to all poets who submitted poems and congratulations to Eileen for a beautiful poem. Thanks too to Kate for letting us use the photograph.
A close second was Triggers by Moira Andrew.
Out of Darkness
Pretty umbrellas
or sustenance through war.
I am in Sarajevo
a tourist
in the rain-
late afternoon coffee shops
shuffle language and laughter
I cannot write
about the mortar and bullet
scars on the buildings
across the street.
On my iPad I read
the siege lasted
one thousand four hundred
and twenty five days
that mushrooms helped
starving families and soldiers
survive-
pretty umbrellas in the rain.
Eileen Carney Hulme
