Larry Turner, who has served as president of the Illinois State Poetry Society,
regional vice-president of the Poetry Society of Virginia, and president of the
Riverside Writers in Fredericksburg, Virginia, judged the February poetry
challenge. The challenge was to write a six-line poem somewhat in the style of Joseph
Stroud. Turner said, “The clear-cut winner is ‘Hardly Ever.’”
Congratulations
to Eve Lomoro, writer of this six-line poem.
Hardly Ever
I hardly ever worry unless for a sick child
a hungry child, a naked child, a child who
has no home or family. I hardly ever worry
about humankind, about love insufficient
to keep bad things from happening. No,
I hardly ever worry except most of the time.
~ Eve Lomoro
Eve
Lomoro has been writing for many years, mostly prose. She has completed one
novel (unpublished as of yet), and is at work on another. Recently, she has become
more serious about poetry, and has joined a poetry group that meets monthly.
She says her interest in poetry has made her prose more colorful. "Hardly
Ever" was written about a subject very close to her heart; she has a
passion about world hunger, especially hungry children.
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this blog.
More about the judge: Larry Turner moved to
Fredericksburg, VA after retiring as physicist from Argonne National Laboratory
near Chicago. His poetry has appeared in many journals including Kansas
Quarterly, The Lyric and Spoon River Quarterly. He has published two
books of poetry, Stops on the Way to Eden and Beyond in 1992, and Eden
and Other Addresses in 2005. In 2011, he published Wanderer, a
collection of poems, stories and drama. Currently he is editing an anthology
for Riverside Writers, as he has done three times previously. While living in
Illinois, he took several poetry classes at the College of DuPage and produced
a television series, Writers Read on Naperville Community Access Television.
© 2012
Wilda Morris
