Here is the poem, A Storm On Two Fronts, which I entered in a poetry contest recently. The results came in today. No I didn’t win. But I came in 2nd. That’s good right? Eh, I really gave up on the thing awhile ago. A few days after the voting closed last Wednesday possible.
The reason I’m posting this poem even though it’s been posted twice on the site the contest was held on, is because they posted it wrong TWICE. The first time it was completely unformatted. It looked like a paragraph, not a poem. This was the case with 7/8 poems (there was a 9th one but it was a YouTube video not text). Today they posted the results…well two different posts actually. One was the “entries” which were all the poems reposted. It looks like in this post they took it upon themselves to attempt to format each poem properly and it failed again. I feel that if the people voted on unformatted poems, don’t repost them reformatted and get it wrong that time as well. (If you didn’t know by now, I’m very, very attentive when it comes to what my poem looks like on the page. If I wasn’t I’d just be writing my poems as works of prose and give up on caring altogether about the flow on a page.)
So here, for your reading pleasure, and for all those who want to see the real A Storm On Two Fronts, please enjoy! 
A Storm On Two Fronts
A storm rolls over the heads
of two lovers in a field.
An electric fire turns the grasses
white under the
black sky. The air
coalesces grey.
The wind whips around.
Rain pelts the couple’s
faces.
They lay down
as their passion builds;
Temperatures rise, a hunger
grows inside.
A storm crashes on the earth.
Release.
The storms cease.
The clouds part.
The moon shines over the field.
The only remnant of the storm,
the passion dripping from
the lover’s faces.
- Robert Zimmermann
*note: If there are errors to the poem at this point, they are purely my fault and I take full responsibility. I will therefore chew out my own ass…and when they phrase is turned on oneself that’s just awkward.
Now I like it even better than the first time I read it. Good job!
Thanks Cinta
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Get a preview of one of the poems to appear in Rob Zimmermann’s poetry collection.
This is really good stuff. Beautifully done!
Gorgeous, as usual. I love all the concrete images strung together. It gives me a very good feel for where the poem is physically.
I have read it…don´t know how many times…, and I must say…I LOVE IT!!!! Brilliant!!!
Congrats!! This is awesome.
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