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Indie Poetry Please Winner January 2025

Our Indie Poetry Please Winner for January 2025 on Instagram is Chris Black @purpleandgoldpoetry, with his poem, “This is not a poem”.

Congratulations to Chris!

Chris's poem wins him a copy of Creative Self-Publishing and of my poetry book, Long Light.

And “This is not a poem” will be a finalist for the Indie Poetry Please contest, 2025. The winner of the poem of the year will receive a cash prize of £500.

And here is the prizewinning poem “This is not a poem”.

"This is not a poem"

New Year, new beginning,


drawing thicker breath


Should auld acquaintances be forgot

never brought to mind?


Certainly not.


Happenstance

perhaps.


It’s the time

for beginning anew

poetic thoughts needed to renew

dry January’s myth.


The more things change

The more the same,

as Magritte might have uttered


Change the language, yes, so be it.


Words seem inept in the mighty need

of what has to be achieved.


But, hallelujah, there, a rainbow in the sky.


From the depths of this old poet's mind

warrior returns

undefeated.

© Chris Black