Published & Contest Winning Poems
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- Written by: cquinn91
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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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- Written by: anonymous contributors
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: pepemagoo
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: stephaniewillis
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: stephaniewillis
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: ugwerks
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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.
