Contest Nominees

How can life slip away
in the blink of an eye,
a childish smile
to be meant for...

Pain was not that time you hit me
fists raining down upon my face and my head.
Pain was that...

It’s Thursday,
It’s morning
And it’s throng;
It’s eyes,
Redundancy
And...

Expectations. That’s a funny word. Expectations .
Because, when you say that word to me,
it’s...

Hello?
Can you hear me?
A mute cry fills my throat and drowns the sound,
Faces flood...

This is a love letter.
They’re mostly written to earn.
But my purpose for writing it is...

I once held time in my hands
And infinity unto thine eye.

The universe held in divine—...

You are you...
live your own happy...
silence judgement...
free yourself from care...

I wonder what the last word will be,
when the world comes to an end

Will it be meaningful?...

I’m self diagnosed
By the best doctor I know
I’m a mechanic on the way to rebuild my persona...

Empty.
Starving.
The fact that I kind of like it is truly alarming.

Shrink,
...

You got to be good,
to live in the hood.
You have to be grand,
and make a wise plan....

I would be taught many things, what love brings,
but difficult to fly without a pair of wings,...

Four walls submerge me,
Showing me the shadows,
that dance and dance,
craving and...

The heat from the sun warms my face
I close my eyes
Within the beauty of life
For just...