Contest Entries

If you look into my life
there’s a window to my soul
but the glass may be tinted
look...

People said I couldn't do it, they said I wasn't able.
But I found a way for everybody to get free...

Doggone poet laureate
wannabe his index finger wags
nonverbally naysaying those,
who...

COME WHAT WILL COME WHAT MAY
START OFF AND PRAY, COME WHAT WILL COME WHAT MAY COME.

I was forced to eat dead life when I was a KID
Told I should be grateful for the LAMB protein...

Our eyes met, I instantly froze…
As she approached, within arms reach, I stood still…
Her...

Oh Gisele
your going straight to hell
and take all your money
Tommy is trying to be...

my word, how she could simply drape, a single purple shawl, a shirt,
or even sheet, around those...

Swarthy, spooky, scary carved
pumpkin faces thickly materialized
out of thin air
as...

I forget what I did yesterday
I can’t remember what I have to do tomorrow
I don’t have much...

So here I am at a crossroad,
Wondering which ways best,

The one that leads to happiness,...

A life is born, a life is recruited. Who convinced the youth, who convinced the innocent? Was it God or...

It’s easy to win everyday
I did it for years
no matter what the game
I was always on...

I used to think that love would fade
without proper tending and preening
without any crumbs...

The girls laughed when they saw Michael drive by,
his brake lights came on - joke with me at your...

Left or right ?
Dim or bright ?
High or low?

So hard to know
the proper life...

Thirty years ago in Boston, on the most infamous of dates;
I opted going to a well-known singles...