Silence August 21, 2016 - August 31, 2016

Contest Completed

Congratulations

Winner - Silence of Discontent

Second Place - The Vocabulary of the Silent Type

Third place - Chains of Silence

Honourable mention - The Oncoming Silence

Honourable mention - My hell in the dead of the night

Honourable mention - Silent

Honourable mention - Still Screaming

Honourable mention - [writing deleted]

Honourable mention - Stillness

Honourable mention - Silence of the Earth

Details

What for you is silence?
Can silence, speak?
Does silence betoken absence?
Imagine the 'silence' of a church, or graveyard, or war memorial space. What do you sense?

I'm looking for poetry that addresses one or all of these questions on behalf of a friend looking to gather responses for a university paper.

Prizes

Recommendation for use as research in a university paper

Moderator

Armistead Lindsey

United Kingdom

Stats

12 Contestants
18 Submissions
526 Views
Created Aug 21, 2016