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Published & Contest Winning Poems

Tillage

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Written by: Tsnclr
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 11, 2011, 9:23 am
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"Runner-up of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period January 1-March 31, 2012."

There’s an urgency to the toil now.

Deep the tines pierce plunged and tramped beneath boots thick caked.

Backwards the staff pushes and falls lifted and levering matted quitch grass twitch and taprooted taxaxacum rhizomes twisted wrapping steel in knots

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3 comments
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Om Nama Shiva

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Written by: wickedwahine_69
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: February 18, 2011, 12:25 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

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"Runner-up in the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period January-March, 2011"-ed.

 

Missing piece,

Link into me,

Let me be not missing.

Not so blind.

Clean.

Falling into freedom...

Filling in the void...

Stop.

Read more: Om Nama Shiva

7 comments
10.3k views

ER

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Written by: michaelmiller.ic
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: January 22, 2011, 11:54 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period January-March, 2011. Read the full interview with Mr. Miller here."--ed.

 

Poets come complaining of a poem lacking flow.

Even when it drips. Heavily. Steadily so.

Hungrily readily these interns crow

Ignoring the soft tissue.

Whilst other patients die from misuse.

Read more: ER

2 comments
5.9k views

- THE POET AS NARCISSIST? -

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Written by: HaroHalola
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 15, 2010, 7:14 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period October-December, 2010. Read the full interview with Mr. Mantel here"--ed.

 

Read me
after
you
won't wanna Read
just anyone
&
the anyone
you Read
you'll get

Cacoethes Scribendi

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7 comments
6.9k views

I am what I am

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Written by: Uniquely...Disfunctional
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 2, 2010, 7:46 am
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"Runner-up in the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period October-December, 2010"-ed.

 

 

From the nipple to the cigarette

From the bottle to the beer

From the garbled bubbles of infant communication-

To the loud vulgar words that spew today.

I am what I am.

Read more: I am what I am

1 comment
2.5k views

A Generic Love Poem

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Written by: Twizzler
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: August 5, 2010, 4:34 pm
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I will not write you a love poem.

It is a tedious process

and not worth the time.

My time would be better spent

describing the beauty of rose petals

or recounting conversations over cigarettes.

I would rather walk through a park

feeling the snow crunch beneath my feet

watching children wage war

with weapons

Read more: A Generic Love Poem

3 comments
2.3k views

The Lightning

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Written by: Tsnclr
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: July 13, 2010, 7:41 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

Stubb Earle’s got his strawberries again in Eden so we packed the freezer full of the perfect fruit, each small ruby bursting its sparks of sugar tart sweet, crimson blood juices over hands and faces.

The baby is soaked in rosy dribbles and laughing for more with joyful shrieks of strawbabies.

Read more: The Lightning

4 comments
6k views

public swim

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Written by: anonymous contributors
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: June 20, 2010, 11:49 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

Public swim session at the community pool

Azure liquid thinned by pee and drool

Beckons a dinky passerby

Choked by grot collar

And ‘can I help you’ tie

*

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5 comments
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Spoon and Fork

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Written by: anthonyliccione
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 11, 2010, 4:34 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2011

 

While yet married to a dish
the spoon ran off with the fork
to elope into a knife
cut-throat marriage-
going feeding porkishly
at Las Vegas buffets
and drinking glass
after glass martinis and wine-
gambling the night away.

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7 comments
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Poetry Blvd.

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Written by: Spells
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 5, 2010, 2:29 pm
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User Rating: 5 / 5

Across from Love Street

Two blocks from the Rhythm and Blues

Graffiti of poetry

Written for travelers like you

While the musicians penetrate their horns

By the barriers of raging fire

The cold crisp breeze

Blows melodies a little further

Across from Love Street

There lie many books

Authors of rich silky thoughts

Langston Hughes

Read more: Poetry Blvd.

4 comments
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no one home

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Written by: anthonyliccione
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 3, 2010, 10:14 am
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that phone
how it keeps
ringing and
ringing off
the damn
hook
at any given
time of
day night
or dawn
unannounced
if I’m
in my under-
wear
or bathing
suit and tie
or towel
that ringer
keeps

Read more: no one home

2 comments
2.2k views

Poets for Sale

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 1, 2010, 9:09 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

We are the traveling salesmen of verse

We have been quietly washed in by

Twilight’s tide and shall make

Our exit by the same mysterious

Means before the piercing dawn

We artfully dissect your town’s

Charm and personality and turn

Read more: Poets for Sale

18 comments
9.1k views
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