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Bozarts Worlds End Competition
Poetry Winners
Bozarts has immense pleasure to advise that the two poet-judges of the competition: Bristol-based poet and augmented sound artist Ralph Hoyte and 2022-2024 Bristol City Poet Kat Lyons - have chosen the two winning texts of the original Poetry Section
Vanuatu Watch
John Gallas
I heard the O---cean at my door
Unwill--ingly I rise
I am not hun--gry for your shore
But urged-- by distant lies
I watch the Wave -- that means Goodbye
The doves -- hoot on the hills
I am a Man -- I cannot fly
What is -- the cause that kills?
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I heard the O--cean blind and lost
I come -- compelled by greed
By comfort bought-- at any cost
By pro--fit with no need
We watch the Wave -- that means Goodbye
Retreat -- before the tide
The birds, the trees -- the earth and I
Where would -- you have us hide?
Woe to You, O Lofty Misers
Maria Gresham
Woe to you, o lofty misers
Whose wealth is your decay
Whose machines pour out their poison
Into our soils and lakes
Surely profit is a phantom
After you, whose will it be?
This one world will not pay for
Your wastefulness and greed
For this earth is ever wiser
And roars its judgement cry
It will call out your complicity
Through burning, dark’ning skies.
Rally up, reject convenience
For value that endures
Know that choices that you make today
Can last for evermore
Slash the lies of the behemoths
For their throats are open graves
Yet through gath’ring together
Collective strength can save
Learn your part and act that we may sing
To children yet unborn:
“This earth bears scars of our brokenness But for you weeps no more!"