Contest Entries

In my limited understanding
Yes, my rose-colored point of view
A hole in my heart demanding...

Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
...

All blank canvases start out the same, the beauty is in what the artist decides to create
All...

The power of Poetry, more powerful than we may ever know.

Poetry the best remedy for me to remain...

My childhood an old cold case.

The suspect unknown.

My adulthood victim to the past....

When all you have known, is unknown to most…

It becomes hard to open up, relating seems impossible...

SO SHORT A STAY
A FEW YEARS AND A DAY,
OF LIFE I LIVED,
PURPOSE,
TO LEARN TO...

SALE ON THE WAVES FOR DAYS OR YEARS,
UNTIL YOU FIND CARING HANDS TO HOLD YOU,
LOVING EYES TO...

"Abort, Retry, Fail?"
(or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?")
essentially spells does not compute...

She asked me if I'm alright
I said that I'm not

Look at my nose it’s starting to rot...

the night is awake
as the star
so lit up like her smile

from heaven she is
...

To know how to love
is to know how to feel
and to know how to hurt
is to to know how...

It all happened so fast
Fate obviously had alternate plans
Mass death in split seconds...

Release me from such dark dismay
Undrown me from my sorrows.
For time I've wasted
...

WHEN I WAS A YOUTH, MY DAD TOOK ME TO AN AUCTION,
I FOUND THE ACUTIONER FASCINATING GOING ONCE,...

SOME PEOPLE, AQUIRE A LOT OF STUFF, JUNK
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, WE
ALL AQUIRE, A LOT...

I was walking under Montana skies
I saw grassy plains where
The Buffalo roam at home
...