Contest Nominees

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Awaiting king

Awaiting king

I am not moved when songbirds sing

I do not weep when church bells ring

My heart cries out...

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Game

If life was a game,

And it may not be fair.

When all odds lie against you,

You have...

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Are You Even Living?

Laptops are a lifeline and tablets are painkillers.

Cell phones are the machines that go beep… beep...

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WASTED

WASTED

I don't want to be wasted...

I don't want to waste away my life...

I don't want my life to...

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Poor Poor Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Poor Poor Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Poor Poor Poor Poor Pitiful Me

I tried the lot; there wasn’t one for me.

They loved me,...

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Divergent

Divergent

I analyze the synchronized motion of our wings

In harmony, up and down; repeat.

We have...

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Reflection

Oh no.
Here she comes

I can hear it,
Car door slamming
Feet stomping
...

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Nobody's Perfect

Nobody's Perfect

We dine in a realm of imperfection with a hunger for war, blood thirsty kings draped in gold reaping...

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Searching

In every school I got bullied,
My mother thought if she kept moving me that it would stop,
...

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Ritual Reblooming

Ritual Reblooming

Allow me to finally bloom. No regret no false intentions. Awakened for the first time i lay paralyzed by...

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Focus

Focus

-Trapped in the depths of my mind
-time has no meaning
-like time stopped at dawn...

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The Reflection

I find you staring at me often,

Eyes stained red, runny nose.

Your eyes searching for...

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I'LL LIVE AGAIN

The holy scriptures remind us

Our lives are just a vapor this day of a thousand years

We...

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The Cardinal

The Cardinal

Boom boom

Boom boom

She runs a race

She can not win

Love out love in love...

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A Prayer for My Sister

Today I learned the meaning of a prayer.

Today I prayed with my soul

because today emotion...

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Questioning Reality

What is real?
What is fake?
If real is what we can touch and see,
What about our...

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A Blank Canvas

A Blank Canvas

The possibilities are endless
Nothing but raw creativity
Flowing from the mind
From...