Prize Poem Competition

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 40, 17 April 1931, Page 32

Prize Poem Competition

[HE prize of half a guinea in the current competition is awarded to "Thur" for her poem entitled "Ave Atque Vale," which expresses with dignity and beauty the long, long thoughts of many in these days of April, which: for New Zealand is a month of many memories. Next in merit is placed "The Parson Bird," by F.H.S., which gives musical interpretation off loveliness of the songs and sounds of the native bush. K.M.N. longs for opiate of tranquility afforded to disillusioned and heartbroken by "friendly hands of night," and yearns for peace at the last in enveloping consolation of the great Barth Mother. — "Anril’: The correction’ indicated was made, but your lines are not sufficiently ‘attractive to win the ¢ompetition, there being a slight effect of incoherence, © "Blessings" and "Wool’s Up," sent in by an optimistic versifier, are imbued with a strong strain of the preaching spirit. "Solitude": Yearnings from a hilltop for the one and only companion. Another example of the stern truth, "Never the time and the place and _ the loved one all together" in an imperfect world, E.H. chooses for motif sharp contrasts of life, in a quartette of verses, the last being the most effective, but the poem does not rise above mediocrity. "Oh- Mack’s" romantic idyll is expressed with this contributor’s accustomed facility and grace. "Wild Rose" paints elusive picture from a palette studied with fresh hues of a dawning day. Dale St. Maur: Poignant memories induced by resuscitation of melodies heard when the world was young. "Werdinand" scoffs, with some asperity, at the ways of love. Methinks he doth protest too much his superiority. "Gunlicht"s The light that failed indeed!