About the competition

In conjunction with the exhibition Love, Loss & Intimacy the NGV invites you to create your own piece of writing exploring notions of love, loss or intimacy, under 500 words. If you're over 18 years of age and a Victorian resident, post your entry on the blog (1 entry per person) for the chance to win a romantic weekend getaway for two at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins and lunch for two at Persimmon.

The judging panel is comprised of three judges: Professor Jennifer Strauss (Editor of the Oxford Anthology of Australian Love Poetry), Penny Modra (Editor of Three Thousand; The Age arts columnist) and Richard Watts (Presenter of SmartArts on TripleR).

Entries accepted until 11 July 2010 and the winner of the competition will be announced and their entry recited on 18 July following on from the 2pm Floor Talk.



Sunday, June 20, 2010

Unsavoury practice

Involuntary actions
Toward an unsavoury practice,
In fact an unsatisfactory life
And humanity.

Why must it be so?
We always protect and appreciate
Those to which
Have no real attraction.
Apart from disillusionment
Why?

Infact when and how?
How this is just too easy
To be so.
We reluctantly involve ourselves
And relinquish the past,
To make an involuntary action
Of dispute and disengagement

When in the future
This will never change,
Never be gratifying
Nor satisfactory

This practice protected and nourished
Through closed eyes,
which will not protect anyone.
Ones selfish demands
Will in turn be the others reward.
The unsavoury practice
Will change one's life immensely.

The flower produced for me
But deriving out of the unsavoury practice.
The flower will blossom
And appreciate those who stay,
Those who protect,
And those who love
And cherish them for everything they are.

That little flower
Though adores the unsavoury practice now
Will in turn blossom
And appreciate those
Whose love is decadent.

Then will relinquish
That unsavoury practice,
To make the present
For our family a treasured existence.

Involuntary actions
Toward an unsavoury practice.
Will in turn be my reward.

ebony

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