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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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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

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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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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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  1. Moods of Lake Michigan
  2. Untitled
  3. telling tales
  4. Plane Crashes

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