Contest Nominees

Don't let life get you down.

Don't let people bring you down.

Don't let society say you...

Through your darkest days,
You’ve been sitting in a cloudy haze
And they’ll say it’s just a...

Please don’t go,

I want to tell you everything I’m hiding
And how I would rather hear...

I hold this mirror to my face
Hands shaking and unaware
My heart pounding loud deep inside...

is this a dream has this really happened
is this real am i really here right now
i dont feel...

Perfect daughter, obedient student,
well groomed and mannered
Always on time, polite
...

Intuition is my curse.

That's sending hints in subtle bursts.

It's motivating compromise...

Electric whisperings and magnetic bleats

remind you that it's merely a machine

As your...

​I grew up in Englewood on Short Lafayette.

My grandparents lived in the house

at the end...

i dream of a place where i can hold your face,

and tell you of the wonders of the life we've been...

I am chasing my illusive dream with which my words jump from the pages

The legends already exist in...

Rivers Run

Rivers run, rivers flow, let it flow, let it flow

Creativity, never let it go...

In our world there is just us,

The bond that we created.

Our world of happy tears,

...

I don't believe it starts as an end goal yet seems to keep being achieved ... for too many have succumbed...

If every time I recite a poem it sounds the same as all of my last ones...

I wonder if that would...

Is something that tends to sneak up on you.
While 30 years ahead seems so far away
That you...

Our blossoming beauty marred by cruel thorns
Rosabunda Vulgaris..she adorns the Snug of the Miners...