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Published & Contest Winning Poems

Madison Avenue

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Written by: NeilWilliam
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: July 31, 2012, 9:29 pm
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"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period July 1-Sept. 30, 2012."--ed.

 

At the Viand Coffee Shop...

 

on Madison Avenue

          which must not be confused

          with the Viand on East 86th

          or the Viand on Broadway

come the young ladies fresh from

their visit to the Met

or, if they dare, the Whitney

Read more: Madison Avenue

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The Foreman

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Written by: Chris Edwards
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: February 3, 2012, 11:00 pm
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"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period January 1-March 31, 2012."--ed.

 

Wilson drives the day labor
with coded directives of the same hand
he uses to correct the horses
with help from a two-by-four.

Those of us who understand him:
a sun-bitten fourth generation West Texan,
continue to craft tax shelters
for the man in the sprawling spread
up from the valley, down from the hill.

Read more: The Foreman

5 comments
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Imagine

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Written by: Darrell Lindsey
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: November 8, 2011, 12:51 am
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"Runner-Up of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period October-December, 2011."--ed.

 

Beatles' records played backwards

in a shack by the river.

 

Hieroglyphics found on a barroom wall

next to that poster of Farrah.

 

Read more: Imagine

2 comments
45k views

The Lake

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Written by: anonymous contributors
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 22, 2011, 2:44 pm
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originally published 2010

 

Escaping to the nearby lake the lovers drove their cars

Through winding road to waters edge they broke the

Mid week silence with vigorous impatient slams of

Their respective car doors stepping quickly to the

Days first embrace like summer campers on break

Read more: The Lake

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Shut Up

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Written by: anonymous contributors
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 22, 2011, 2:39 pm
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originally published 2010

 

The angst of the well fed falls

deafly upon my ears

The whines of the dreary privileged

Are like fingernails

On chalkboard

To me

Read more: Shut Up

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Trimester One

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Written by: Tsnclr
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: July 30, 2011, 3:53 pm
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"1st Place Winner of the Open Community Poetry Contest for the period October-December, 2011."--ed.

 

It starts in the brain.

Lingering fogs of morning hanging grey as the sun tries desperate to burn through with a moment of clear thought.

The milk still on the counter sweating sodden pools down to the floor.

A light is on in the room long empty.

Still the haze settles in the lowlands of the mind.

There are no words because there cannot be any.

There is no I for there is only dualities joining inside.

Read more: Trimester One

12 comments
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Tillage

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Written by: Tsnclr
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: May 11, 2011, 9:23 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

"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

Read more: Tillage

3 comments
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Om Nama Shiva

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Written by: wickedwahine_69
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: February 18, 2011, 12:25 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

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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.

Read more: Om Nama Shiva

7 comments
10.3k views

ER

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Written by: michaelmiller.ic
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: January 22, 2011, 11:54 am
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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.

Read more: ER

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- THE POET AS NARCISSIST? -

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Written by: HaroHalola
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 15, 2010, 7:14 am
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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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I am what I am

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Written by: Uniquely...Disfunctional
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 2, 2010, 7:46 am
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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.

Read more: I am what I am

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A Generic Love Poem

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Written by: Twizzler
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: August 5, 2010, 4:34 pm
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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

3 comments
2.3k views
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