Contest Entries

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me...

You’ll be flying over both Carolina’s in an hour or so
You’ll look down through the big white...

Even though clearly we
don’t have
enough ink between
the two of us ..
Can you...

Am I Right…
So long… this question… asking myself…
Mom, am I right.
***
The...

I was a pretty girl
At one time,
I let the alcohol take control
Of my life,
...

Translated by Yiyan Han (c), 2023-09-13

Endless pavilions and piles of green hills
When...

Sometimes I wonder why God keeps me alive
All i do in my prayer is cry
Did you forget about...

I know you lost your best friend
I know your crying and mourning
You know if I can lend you...

Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive...

I AM DESTINED TO BE A RENOWNED POET TO OPEN EYES
SHED TEARS AND STATING MY OPIONONS DESTINED AMEN...

Nothing like being competitive, holding the trophy,
no longer the backroom boy, up front where...

Seasons have passed
And time has moved along
Judgement Day is coming
Now it's only...

My love for nature I’d rather
Be in the woods or the mountains
Then then be with people I...

Cajolery neon glow
Entice beast below
Troth of endless bliss
With twilight kiss...

A finished book, I'd like to see

A finished book with no more pages left to fill
Secure...

In order to survive,
they had to
acquire the imagination
of a ghetto whore
and...

Beware harbinger wails
Foretold tis quietus tales
Banshee of badlands
Fetters...