Contest Entries

She is a needle
My mental-flaws the haystack
She felt overwhelmed

EGGNOG, WRAPPING PAPER AND BOWS, TINSEL, CHRISTMAS MUSIC,
SHOPPING, GREETING PEOPLE, CHRISTMAS CARDS...

Just a little humor runaway thought, so hurry up and catch it,
before it leaves forever runaway...

Every time
she leaves a bottle of wine behind
I know I’ll see her again
Every day...

TODAY IS WARMER THAN IT HAS BEEN, IT WAS DIPPING INTO THE 20'S.
NOW IT'S GOING TO REACH THE 50'S, I...

Good old Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud,
as he breezed thro' daffodils in a golden shroud,...

to unanswered questions and unconquered fears, my insecurities no longer your peers but rather unknown...

If fate had it be,
would you let it be so?
My mind says no
but my hearts ignores....

Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth...

Life is messed up,
In 8th grade your cried over a lost phone,
In 8th grade I was grieving...

guilt instilled from insecure pieces
all laying with no value, priceless
with no recollection...

True color weaves in and out of blackout nights and gray days.
Well lit and alive fades with...

her words to my ears
ashes to ashes, lust to lust
her touch to my skin
I must, I must...

While here we both lay
like disjointed fragments
of the very same whole

Elsewhere,...

KNEELING OVER HIS BLOOD STAINED BODY
SHE BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF,
ALL THE ANGER THAT WAS...

TO SUBDUE OTHERS,
I SOUGHT THE POWER,
TO CONTROL THEIR MINDS,
MY DECEPTIVE WORDS...

There’s nothing like a photo finish
you watch the whole race and it comes down to one instant...