Brevity for a Blog #1

Hello! I recently held a poetry contest on All Poetry, you can visit it here . The idea of the contest was that the winners will write a few words about their poem and I will put their entries and those words on this blog. So, without further ado, here are the winning entries- #1 Then Dust - Bruce Jefferson Rose From glaciers far, mountains near rivers recent to this shore the rock in my hand a softly rounded, flat quartz white stone with smooth orange edges, in my grip whips with my hurling arm skipping, sidetracked in its journey to becoming sand. "Standing on a rocky shore it is human nature to toss a stone into the waters; a stone on natures geologic path to sand then dust. It is also natural to improve your thrown stone’s poetry, be it a splash or gentle settling. My poem is a taxi to destinations of your devise." - Bruce Jefferson Rose #2 Winter - Melclarity Coldness drifts expressively stretched through valleys and hills indulged ic...