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May 15th, 2026
Under 25 Poetry Europe Contest #2 – First Place
by Aurora Nori
For I have been struck, by a whirling, golden dart. In the onyx night, I look up then gaze below, the roots again, hand covering my pulsing heart. Rubies on the everyman stone, crimson wine, knows the woe it sows. Oh, how I feel it in my lungs burgundy, thick, and warm. Thin, sharp spear you hit me with love’s work, it must be. Burning agony, throbbing blow, how it gleams in my sorrow. For a sweetness won’t come, the liquid, unbothered flows. My legs fold, and before we might know the pulsing of the heart stops.
About the Poet
Aurora Nori resides in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Read the poet's biography and Under 25 Poetry publications
on Aurora Nori's Artist Page.
Under 25 Poetry Collection
This poem is also featured in
Under 25 Poetry Collection #2,
published in the Under 25 Poetry Library.
Keywords: love, mortality, myth
Previously published in Under 25 Poetry Europe:
Dr. Martin
by Ruth Ginsburg Hix
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