Poetry
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- Written by: anthonyliccione
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: Eric Lawson
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
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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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- Written by: cquinn91
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 1994
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
Read more: Moods of Lake Michigan
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- Written by: anonymous contributors
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 6438
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
- Hits: 1828
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
- Hits: 5927
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
- Hits: 6925
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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- Written by: Spells
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 5083
originally published 2010
Red ink tells the story
Whether fiction or non
Red traced his words
Diligently through Christ tongue
Red ink marks progression
During the adolescences
Red ink pinpoints digression
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- Written by: Spells
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 2094
Espressos and cocoa
Fill the a.m. doors
Coffee beans and honey
Pastries and olive oil
Cinnamon incense
Fresh from the writer's novel
Lavender presence
Fresh from the poet's collection
Directions and reflections
Visions from upon
Mysteries of feelings
Solved through letters and songs
As the orchestra blends
More cultures dine in
Unfolding pads and pens
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- Written by: kiwesley
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 7358
originally published 2010
There are very few pictures of me
This is because I avoid making friends
Avoid making friends with cameras
In that order
I march toward April
Aware that she is staring
Picturing someone else
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- Written by: Mishca
- Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
- Hits: 2377
originally published 2010
The man was a truck driver -
like he thought
the wheels could keep him
from rumbling through -
the rock that rolled from
family to frightened family
the dark rimmed glasses
that never shook when he smacked
our cheeks
already turned.
