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Published & Contest Winning Poems

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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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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User Rating: 5 / 5

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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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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