Contest Entries

A plastic cup rolls back and forth on the road, in rain and hail it bends to climate, drowning in discard...

They have no lifeguards on Coney Island
Maybe now they might hire one
maybe not
They...

you had to know
one day I would put you in my poem
I have done it before
you had to...

If I had you to hold
I wouldn’t need alcohol
or women or drugs
If I had you to hold...

I feel like my life is an open poem
that Anyone can easily read
I feel like my life is an...

I’m not looking to please the people
the people are not looking to please me
Maybe we can...

He was my papaw and he was my father's dad.
When he died in 1994, it was both tragic and sad....

two alternate titles:
1. Gander seeking goose that laid the golden egg
2. Incorrigible...

SO, LET'S REJOICE,
GIVE ALL THE GLORY TO GOD,
NO MORE TEARS OR ANYTHING OF THAT KIND,
...

Maria, Maria what have you done?
Slain your children one by one.
Into Rio River to drown...

The anthem of her soul,
it’s a bittersweet strain,
through highs and lows,
to ease the...

Now that you are gone
nothing compares to you ..
Nothing but trinkets,
some vinyl and...

You have travelled so far...

Going to a strange land...

Unfamiliar faces...

All...

If you have nothing to lose in life, continue to cruise, and do what's right, from the morning, and on til...

I was still a girl, transitioning into womanhood, he treated me like a lady, he made me feel good.

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Everybody knows I’m going down
like a wounded battleship at sea
Everybody knows I’m going...

In the depths of shadows, where evil dwells,
A sinister tale of darkness unfolds.
A world...