Contest Entries

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Bad Guy

Eyes died
dead look
scared sight
bad glare
My fear
one look
I’m...

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Happen”less”

Happiness

Suddenly it hit me, like a ton of bricks… Their happiness makes me sick, everytime I witness it…
I...

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Reality is Perception

When how we see ourselves is from compiled images of how we are seen, it’s very hard for our reflection to...

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Defense Mechanisms

Pain plays games with our physical self, as we take physical measures to protect our emotional self.

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Collisions between yours...

Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,...

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Pumpkin Patch

Popop picked Peter pipers pumpkins

Pumpkin Patch

I just planted a pumpkin patch
for who for what for why would you ask
because I got hundreds...

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The Late William Simons

Dedicated to William Simons (1940-2019) who died on June 21,...

The Late William Simons

In 1977, you starred in an episode of Doctor Who.
If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 82...

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Ode to Eudaimonic Eternal...

Ode to Eudaimonic Eternal Recurrence

Beseech my soul beneath the weeping willow,

Distended wolf and sheep mending into one,...

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Woven Dreams

Burnt umber is the color of the clay
Red orange the color of the fire flames
Dusty charcoal...

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Cover Girl

Cover Girl

She was to pretty for makeup, nor did she ever wear it. That all changed when she met him, he wore her...

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No More

No More

From his hole in the wall bars, to our home he put holes in the walls and left scars.

mommy said it...

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Dear Dad

Trigger warning: complicated parent/child relationship poem

Dear Dad

Dear Dad,

Why would you choose to bring me into your world of hatred?
If you didn't have...

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Mars and Moon

Mars and Moon

In your eyes
the captured moonlight,
floating in a pool of
gathered stars.

In...

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She Loves Me Not

She Loves Me Not

She loves me
she loves me not
I keep picking pedals
but they never run out
...

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SPECIAL PEOPLE

Self declared experts

SPECIAL PEOPLE

HERE ARE FIVE OF MY MOST FAVORITE PEOPLE.

1. A SIDELINE POLITICIAN THATS UNINVOLVED IN POLITICS....

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STEPPING INTO THE LIGHT

MY SENIOR YEARS

STEPPING INTO THE LIGHT


A CLOUDED GLOOM HAD SHADOWED MY LIFE
FOR MOST OF MY ADULT YEARS,
RELATIONSHIPS,...

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RECAPTURE THE IDEA

RECAPTURE THE IDEA

I was writing a poem on my laptop, when all of a sudden
it disappeared, so now I am trying to...