Published & Contest Winning Poems
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- Written by: Tsnclr
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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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- Written by: wickedwahine_69
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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.
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- Written by: michaelmiller.ic
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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"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.
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- Written by: HaroHalola
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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"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
Read more: - THE POET AS NARCISSIST? -
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- Written by: Uniquely...Disfunctional
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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.
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- Written by: Twizzler
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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
