Contest Entries

When worlds collide they fight
In times of hate and greed comes war
Refugees in desperation...

Born to a non virgin Mother
A Father just wasn’t present
So no one to give me up
For...

Please understand shes damaged
crushed and hurt
Just know shes fighting but she can
...

The silent soul
who sullenly
seeps within
the sentimental
seas of solitude ....

Baller
Ball up
Baller
Ball up
Baller
Slippers dawg
Ball up...

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement...

You look at me I look at you in my minds eye
You live in another world though I feel you very near...

I have spent
many decades
worried to death
over nothing

What people think...

I got
tricked in
disengaging from you
decades ago

formal training
...

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FOWERS OF SPRING TO BLOOM
TO NAME A FEW, CHERRY BLOSSOM, CALLA LILLY,
...

YOU KNOW IF THE MEAL IS GOOD,
IF THEY GO BACK FOR SECONDS,
SHORT, SWEET AND TO THE POINT,

SHALL I EAT PEANUT BUTTER AND CRACKERS
OR GOURMET FOOD

SHALL I WEAR DIAMONDS AND PEARLS...

SOME PEOPLE WILL TRY TO
PUT YOU TO THE TEST, FOR INSTANCE,
THERE ARE SO MANY TESTS IN THIS...

You can
Go
Shake
That
Stankin
Twatsee
Over there
You...

Where are those
love letters
he wrote for you ..
I know
for a fact, they...

My head space retraced old steps. My mind lined with past walls. One by one I have crossed them all. Some I...

I never heard the rainbow
as it crept into the sky.
Triumphant bouts of silence
...