This unabashed love poem begins with an adaptation of a line from Catullus (poem 51) who steals his line from Sappho (poem 31). The poem attempts to re-member what it was I initially felt in the presence of my now husband. It appears in a book that is obsessed with the number eleven, and as such it is an excessive rebellion, announcing itself as it does as an eighteen-line poem.
Sasha Steensen on "7. (eighteen line poem for gordon)" |
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Teacher wins UK National Poetry Competition
"The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22) by Marvin Thompson, a school teacher in Wales, was judged the best from more than 18,000 poems....'As with all my poems, it was written for my children, a gift to their future selves,” he said. “A poem to be read on nights when the weight of being a dual-heritage person in Britain feels too heavy to bear.'"
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