Contest Entries

A storm descends to mar the day
As he looks out from the café.
It brings to mind forgotten...

When opportunity presents itself, will you be ready? Well I finally was and the amount your savings account...

You held a sign, you walked with it real far, you chanted the words
“Defund The Police”.

You...

He began recording for Sun Records until his contract was acquired by RCA.
He was the King of Rock...

Breathe in the willows wind as the willow whips and whims
Be then a willowed den be then a widow to...

Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
...

Dear mom,
I was supposed to be a high school graduate,
I dropped out,
you expedition...

Fred Astaire once claimed
that he broke a lot of canes.
Poets have been known
to break...

I might be out of sync with current times,
But I thought questions presupposed replies?
On...

Here snug and warm in my autumn retreat,
I'm deciphering new dreams by the log fire,
...

I sit by my desk, where a globe glows,
And I scan through old, dusty books.
Through me a warm...

In the broken jaws
of night, urban guerillas
prowl these plagued streets in
growing...

Define me
or maybe
let my spirit
blow in the wind

in your presence
...

Nothing hit the floor as our ears rang from the sound echoing off the ground…

I stopped insisting where there was not
what I was looking for.
I stopped asking with...

We learn from the hardest Truths.
Great ones among us,
know this, in their very bones....

O all these superficial souls!
They are like children at the gate
leading to the Garden of...