I am honored and humbled. My poem, Blankness has won First Place in the September 1, 2008 PoetrySoup International Contest.

Blankness

I fared under the caricature
Of desolate bane this eve –
Walking with shiver in pocket
Toward the glassiness of now –

As I reached the tip of today
Drenched I was, in disgust –
Saturated with concocted sweat
I gripped tirelessly, the shiver –

Poured the shock of yesterday
Through forgotten cloud –
As I quivered under the dry
Of pouring dry rains –

My eyes swelled silently shut
From the lack of tears this eve –
My shiver, it completely melted
From the glassiness of now –

~ Deborah Simpson

Link to the site:
http://poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/contest_winners080108.aspx

Within my upcoming release, The Constellation of Omens: The Signs of the End of the World, one of the significances is "red and black." Please check out this website: www.cityyear.org. Pay special attention to the colors of the group, "red and black." The motto of this site is, "Voices for National Service." Remember what Obama said about a "civilian military."

Read beyond the now in 2009. Watch for the release of The Constellation of Omens.