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Published & Contest Winning Poems

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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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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

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2 comments
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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

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18 comments
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Moods of Lake Michigan

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Written by: cquinn91
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: April 19, 2010, 6:11 pm
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Nothing

captures Midwestern melancholy

quite like Lake Michigan.

In the winter it is

a gray lake locked in ice.

Morose and morbid

sitting and waiting like

an ashen flounder covered

and lying in wait

 to gobble

up some unsuspecting ship and her

naive crew.

Smoldering summer comes

with no spring or fall

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Untitled

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Written by: anonymous contributors
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: April 15, 2010, 8:41 am
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originally published 2010

 

Pine a blooming parasite

Twined

Poised on a twig a jackdaw

Issues a pungent cry

Indignant towards celestial

Lights

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4 comments
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telling tales

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Written by: pepemagoo
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: April 1, 2010, 3:54 pm
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telling tales of abandoned buildings
       in the rain
              places we'll never own
       memories we'll never know.

we scuttle under floors
and question the meaning of rail lines
you tell me about places you got to get off
           or the rail men'il get ya.

i only remember that one is in

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Plane Crashes

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Written by: stephaniewillis
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: March 26, 2010, 4:37 pm
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I finished a book and 

thought it was perfect but 

I forgot the name.

We could not talk about it. 

I

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Peach Pits

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Written by: stephaniewillis
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: March 26, 2010, 4:33 pm
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originally published 2010

 

A girl is found by the highway

two towns over from ours. If her hair

was knotted with

 

brown blood and thorns the

police report didn't say. I killed a

butterfly and rubbed the color from its wings, the saddest shade

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3 comments
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Palestine

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: March 12, 2010, 7:29 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

We each have our own turf 
we defend at any cost.
Boasting of our victories
dismissing what we’ve lost.
your words taste of poison
and mine like bitter wine
living here  in our Palestine.

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