Second Annual Wild Violet Writing Contest Winners (2004)
Poetry
— Third Place
Mary Ellen Walsh has been writing poetry since she was a teenager. She is also an avid reader, her favorite poets being Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. She enjoys reading biographies, horror and critiques of other authors and poets.
The
Moment
By Mary Ellen Walsh
The ultimate in overindulgence
is abstinence;
enjoy hedonism
in temperance.Write a haiku, a ballad
a ballet —about the joy,
one cold Spring day,
when you saw fallen petals
from a Japanese Cherry Tree —and thought of pink snow.