Where the river meets the fog

Nicely written, thumbs up!

Judge Comment:

I have read this nature/ love piece several times now, and the more I read it, the more I fall in love with it. Chesley has crafted a sureal image in the minds of the reader. Taking them to a spanish moss bed of romance. Each stanza takes me to a fantasy world within nature. In my opinion, nature poetry needs to be filled with visuals, so the reader can escape in peace, and the author created that and so much more. This poem is crafted with true elegance, and creativity.

The visuals of rivers ending in a fog haze simply mesmerises me, and I can't hold back my excitement for this poem, its truly a beautiful read!

Judging comment:

"I actually don't like poems that fall in the nature genre for several reasons. Some of those include that I believe they are one of the more difficult topics to write about, too often they become cliche and either overloaded with imagery to the point you can actually SEE that the author is trying too hard, or end up with no imagery whatsoever but instead just become a bunch of words that have been thrown together in the hope of pulling it off.

So I was pleasantly surprised when I read this wonderful poem, so surprised in fact that I read it several times and found myself enjoying it more each time that I did. The imagery portrayed throughout this is incredible without being overwhelming and the whole tone of the piece is so romantic and soothing that it leaves me feeling at peace and with a smile on my face.

The fact it left me feeling so calm was magnified because of the closing line and the use of "Prisoned desires" The whole atmosphere originally was so different and relaxed compared to "prisoned" which originally created conflicting emotions.

After rereading I found that the 'prisoned' desires were about to be set loose because of the love and care described throughout. Beautiful work."

Absolutely beautiful Chels! Every line was so melodic and with all the vivid & lively references too......each word flowed like honey.....Congrats on the win!!!!

Congratulations girl :)