Contest Winners

Weekly Poetry Contest Winners

lesabug
The Sun Rises
Poet: lesabug
Contest Date: 5/25/0200 - 6/01/0200
View Poem PreviewWhen the sun rises I think of youYour sparkling eyes are like the morning dewBringing my soul to lifeAwakening my heartLonging to be with youMy mind …
PhantomPoet
DREAMS
Poet: PhantomPoet
Contest Date: 10/27/2008 - 11/03/2008
View Poem PreviewSometimes I dream of beautiful things The life I have ahead Or of how things might have been Had I followed my heart instead The future stands, tomorrow is gone What happened to …
Onelove2807
My Angel
Poet: Onelove2807
Contest Date: 11/10/2008 - 11/17/2008
View Poem PreviewCrawl into my sanctuary And leave this world behind. Open your heart and let me in, Then close the door to your mind. Wrap yourself in my blanket, As dark as the ocean deep.< …
Phoenix9
where do I go
Poet: Phoenix9
Contest Date: 11/17/2008 - 11/24/2008
View Poem PreviewEverywhere I look, Everything I see Passing thru life, As life passes thru me. I think,I know, It should have been, A place, A thing, Two steps ahead, I couldn't help, I just can't …
JEAGLEFEATHER
Pieces Of Diety
Poet: JEAGLEFEATHER
Contest Date: 12/01/2008 - 12/08/2008
View Poem PreviewWalking softly in this time & place Which seems to wipe the smile right from my face I have come to where I believe I understand That the perceptions I hold are fully at my command If I cho …
dmc1259
Thank you Dad
Poet: dmc1259
Contest Date: 12/08/2008 - 12/15/2008
View Poem PreviewWhen I was hurting and didn’t think I could make it another day You picked me up and carried me the rest of the way When my heart was broken and my world shattered You told me I was …
1LostGypsy
To Each His Own
Poet: 1LostGypsy
Contest Date: 12/15/2008 - 12/22/2008
View Poem PreviewTo each his own, He believe's what he see's, So leave him alone if you could, Wont you please? To each his own, He's happy with less. Please leave him alone if he doesn't want …
drewking
my wife
Poet: drewking
Contest Date: 12/22/2008 - 12/29/2008
View Poem PreviewI remember the day I first saw you, you were sitting there, unaware of my unbreakable stare Your eyes, your lips, your nose, your hair, your grace, your beauty, is beyond compare,< …
Mitzi
"All About Me"
Poet: Mitzi
Contest Date: 1/05/2009 - 1/12/2009
View Poem PreviewI am a strong independent woman, Who often feels alone. Struggling through life, While days have come and gone. There are so many times, When I must try. To face the disappoin …
Plot121
Emotional Storm
Poet: Plot121
Contest Date: 1/12/2009 - 1/19/2009
View Poem PreviewThe storm has come and unrest blows upon me, I am shaken to do what is right but emotions rains down for all to see. Thunderous words fills me with hate and dreaded fear, As the pondering of my he …
errizy
Night after Gerry died
Poet: errizy
Contest Date: 1/19/2009 - 1/26/2009
View Poem Preview To the masses, I became stranded---And passed around the stage--- like beer. Tonight, met I, one thousand sets of peering eyes--the stage became impass …
NayInLove
Divine Intervention
Poet: NayInLove
Contest Date: 1/26/2009 - 2/02/2009
View Poem PreviewI've got a few things on my mind..As a woman who DOES believe in god and IS sane, in the right state of mind There's something that is making me sick, making me illSo i thought I'd exercise my freedo …
dahlusion
Then The Tumblers Rust
Poet: dahlusion
Contest Date: 2/02/2009 - 2/09/2009
View Poem Preview©dah ©dahlusion This poem is in my first book, "In Forbidden Language" published by Stillpoint Press, Spokane, Washington. To purchase my book: go to lulu.com, go to "all products" type in …
fenixmind
Surrounded By Flowers
Poet: fenixmind
Contest Date: 2/16/2009 - 2/23/2009
View Poem PreviewAs the flowers wither Along the winds of lust Flowing like angels Brushing my raven wings I let my spirit revive And follow your heart Into your forbidden gardens And s …
Footprints2002
Your Friendship
Poet: Footprints2002
Contest Date: 3/09/2009 - 3/16/2009
View Poem PreviewYour love runs deep Deep into your veins This love you show How can I show you? You want me to love you But I have love for you But I am not in love with you You want t …
mgolda22
Eternal Embrace
Poet: mgolda22
Contest Date: 3/16/2009 - 3/23/2009
View Poem PreviewOh Dear God please I pray, let not my life slip away. Give me one more moment to paint her face; To teach my son to throw that ball with grace. If I could have just one more chance, to hold on …
dangedmanjr
from the ground up
Poet: dangedmanjr
Contest Date: 4/06/2009 - 4/13/2009
View Poem PreviewFrom the ground up, is the only way he can see. a spiraling diatribe of bad intentions. nose to nose with the dirt, is all he can be. heavy on the scale of downward precision. flora …
lonewolf
My Last Day
Poet: lonewolf
Contest Date: 4/13/2009 - 4/20/2009
View Poem PreviewThe morning would be spentLying with you in bedGiggling like a couple of kidsWith the sheets pulled over our headThe feel of your skin when I touch youWith my hands upon your breast …
cherise1
Tears To Spare
Poet: cherise1
Contest Date: 4/20/2009 - 4/27/2009
View Poem PreviewIn the eyes of someone else I look like I've been torn apart, I know when I stayed with you it wasn't very smart. You broke my heart and tore it in two, I knew it was too great just too good to be …
beautifuldeath
Hypnotized by Darkness
Poet: beautifuldeath
Contest Date: 4/27/2009 - 5/04/2009
View Poem PreviewThick ghosts escaped my lips And surrounded my shivering frame As I gazed upon him Like a woman hypnotized The rain fell through the fog And in the darkness the fog coalesced …
StandingBear
YELLOW DAWN
Poet: StandingBear
Contest Date: 5/11/2009 - 5/18/2009
View Poem PreviewI ponder your kind spirit amidst nature seldom observed untouched fields of high grass leaves strewn upon ancient .. mountain rock standing against time u …
tenderpoison
unconquered
Poet: tenderpoison
Contest Date: 5/18/2009 - 5/25/2009
View Poem Previewthis pen I must make mightier than your penetrating blade bleeding yet undefeated ink caresses page crowds swirling all around me pressing their noisy demands longing for something deeper I stretch out …
ALPink
The Devil
Poet: ALPink
Contest Date: 6/08/2009 - 6/15/2009
View Poem PreviewI was once lost in a forest with foliage covering the trail from which I came The thick trees cover just about every bit of light the sun rains Knowing I am lost I hang my head …
Hampton
Politicians
Poet: Hampton
Contest Date: 6/15/2009 - 6/22/2009
View Poem PreviewListen closely good citizens to the carefully crafted chatter More lies than truth but what does it matter
poetrygal45
Goodbye
Poet: poetrygal45
Contest Date: 6/22/2009 - 6/29/2009
View Poem PreviewYou wanted me to hate youto do what you do,telling lies and saying goodbyesmixed with I love yous.Telling me I was the onewho made all things righ …
dragonfly1023
Fairies
Poet: dragonfly1023
Contest Date: 7/06/2009 - 7/13/2009
View Poem Previewenchanted night enchanted dawn cold serpent twists along through briar and through fairy wrath
UnworthyFather
Nature's Voice
Poet: UnworthyFather
Contest Date: 7/13/2009 - 7/20/2009
View Poem PreviewDancing daffodilsWaving in timeTo the sweet musicOf the whispering windMoaning aspensLending melodyTo babbling brookAnd buzzing bees
GentleT
Balance
Poet: GentleT
Contest Date: 7/20/2009 - 7/27/2009
View Poem PreviewThe equality of distribution is life's absolute solution. We need to give as well as take. Otherwise it is to high-stake.   Coexist in harmony and unity is survival of humanity without impunity. …
Stardrift
"Scotengire's Missive"
Poet: Stardrift
Contest Date: 7/27/2009 - 8/03/2009
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WordSlinger
The Grid of Her Heart
Poet: WordSlinger
Contest Date: 9/07/2009 - 9/14/2009
View Poem PreviewThe Grid of Her HeartElectric speechHer grid speaksfor me to reachher hearts' powerHer gift for meis her loves' beach
knight4696
Blank Page
Poet: knight4696
Contest Date: 9/14/2009 - 9/21/2009
View Poem PreviewI am a blank page ...nothing enscribed - nothing stained.I am …
am2anangel
predator
Poet: am2anangel
Contest Date: 9/28/2009 - 10/05/2009
View Poem PreviewInto the night I wandered, pondering; the cloak of darkness.
kmooney
Trick or Treat...
Poet: kmooney
Contest Date: 10/26/2009 - 11/02/2009
View Poem PreviewI'm a ghost that everyone can see,A spiritual guise, a flesh tapestry.A vaporous cloud of orgasmic debris,A family's cursed plasmic monstrosity.I'm a ghost no one wants to see,Conspicuously disguised as th …
themommyof2
Daddy, it’s been 18 years
Poet: themommyof2
Contest Date: 11/09/2009 - 11/16/2009
View Poem Preview  You send me signs all the time. 11:11 is the time I always see. It took me years to understand. 11/11/1991 is the date That brings sad memories. I’m so sorry that I couldn’t get th …
dahlusion
If I Ask The Dead For Memories
Poet: dahlusion
Contest Date: 11/16/2009 - 11/23/2009
View Poem Preview©dah ©dahlusion This poem is in my first book, "In Forbidden Language" published by Stillpoint Press, Spokane, Washington. To purchase my book: go to lulu.com, go to "all products" type in …
danmartyjake1
Carry the Flame
Poet: danmartyjake1
Contest Date: 11/23/2009 - 11/30/2009
View Poem PreviewCarry the Flame
MalikPeterson
"Torn"
Poet: MalikPeterson
Contest Date: 11/30/2009 - 12/07/2009
View Poem Preview Torn
Savant
State of Man
Poet: Savant
Contest Date: 12/07/2009 - 12/14/2009
View Poem PreviewForged Lord, nigh the sea Your borders have offered me less than peace. Was not your plea that we the poor Should flee our teeming shores for yours?   Demanding of us salt-less chores Defiantly …
knight4696
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN (A Christmas Song)
Poet: knight4696
Contest Date: 12/21/2009 - 12/28/2009
View Poem PreviewAll God's Children 'Cross The World ..Every Single Boy And Girl.From Our Hearts Our Voices Sing ..Glory To The New Born King!!< …
Grito
Blue Inca Night (Verse)
Poet: Grito
Contest Date: 12/28/2009 - 1/04/2010
View Poem PreviewA plethora prescence of a little ray of moonlight, cat's eye blue in the sleeping coal jungle night,smoothly eyes shadows in pure silver.The cowering cirrus clouds in mystery,awed by the full blu …
Hampton
Words That Bind
Poet: Hampton
Contest Date: 1/25/2010 - 2/01/2010
View Poem Preview  Their words reach out to me in a poetical embrace As if our minds were one as through family and b …
StandingBear
INTO THEM .. INTO ME .. INTO YOU
Poet: StandingBear
Contest Date: 2/15/2010 - 2/22/2010
View Poem Previewthoughts .. tearsmeaningful words .. appearseemingly from nowherelife continues it's treacherous pathto somewheretravelingsitting stillit's all the samenothing eve …
Artie
I Await
Poet: Artie
Contest Date: 4/05/2010 - 4/12/2010
View Poem PreviewI saw you today dancing in a daydream The entire world stopped spinning to watch as you moved between dimensions …
ALPink
Locket
Poet: ALPink
Contest Date: 4/12/2010 - 4/19/2010
View Poem PreviewI am a secret in a dark and desolate closet Kept from the world with my love in a golden locket My clothes were stripped from me so that I could not leave And to silence my cries I was beaten until my flesh would bleed …
WordSlinger
Rattling the Chains
Poet: WordSlinger
Contest Date: 4/19/2010 - 4/26/2010
View Poem Preview The silver of the moon soothes the burns of disease All of humanity is …
SuSpence
The Tragic Tale of Alejandro Vega
Poet: SuSpence
Contest Date: 5/10/2010 - 5/17/2010
View Poem PreviewCongregate Friends, and I will spin you a yarnOf an immigrant named, AlejandroHe's a father of six, and a man of good standingCalls …
simoneaugustus
Winter Bides Her Time
Poet: simoneaugustus
Contest Date: 5/17/2010 - 5/24/2010
View Poem Previewthe blue-gray moon, cracked into pieces by the stark silhouette of a dying oak...tiny icicles stretching toward the ground, pointing their accusatory fingers... 
Qualin
ON PREASTERS LAKE
Poet: Qualin
Contest Date: 6/07/2010 - 6/14/2010
View Poem Preview"MOM IT'S JUST A WAYS FROM HERE, I MET AH NEW FRIEND,I NAMED HIM JIMMY-JIMALL WE DO IS FISH AND SWIM"!"WE JEST THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNYAH MAKIN UP AH NAMESHOOT ,HE DID THE VERY SAME"!"HE CAL …
stellar
Last summer
Poet: stellar
Contest Date: 6/21/2010 - 6/28/2010
View Poem PreviewMy memories of you were never really lost Though fading more in every season's turn But I’ve found at last the nook in which they hide Deep down in forgotten quarters of my mind
ApaqRasgirl
Dreams to Contemplate
Poet: ApaqRasgirl
Contest Date: 7/25/2010 - 8/01/2010
View Poem PreviewYour smile reminded me of a bright blue sky. Those eyes that sparkle looked into mine, I'd cry. Your long dark hair …
castlemist
Butterfly Effect
Poet: castlemist
Contest Date: 8/02/2010 - 8/09/2010
View Poem Preview                                        & …
angel33614
The Eternal Chess Game
Poet: angel33614
Contest Date: 8/23/2010 - 8/30/2010
View Poem PreviewDown the narrow unending hallway of my keep, To the last door on the left, I rest my head for a moment of sleep. As I fade to dream I see a tunnel of light, A small space of illuminated mad …
Dano
immortal kiss
Poet: Dano
Contest Date: 9/06/2010 - 9/13/2010
View Poem Previewwhips of the tongue...across an open woundthe sweet taste of bloodnot a moment too soon
kmooney
The Day John Lennon Died
Poet: kmooney
Contest Date: 10/04/2010 - 10/11/2010
View Poem PreviewMany cried the day he died,All the world did mourn.Rest in peace Brother John,K
sunshine33710
What Is A True Friend
Poet: sunshine33710
Contest Date: 10/11/2010 - 10/18/2010
View Poem PreviewA true friend is always there for you,A true friend is someone you can lean on for a shoulder to cry,A true friend is there to lift you up when the going gets tough,A true friend is someone you can …
ImStillHere
"You are a Perversion to God"...
Poet: ImStillHere
Contest Date: 10/18/2010 - 10/25/2010
View Poem PreviewPerverse, you say?Oh I think not...Just 'cause I have a mindthat says girls are freakin hot.A sinner? oh yes,I surely am that,but I admit it and repent,so you can kiss my ass.Right t …
dahlusion
Walt Whitman, I Want To Grow Your Beard
Poet: dahlusion
Contest Date: 11/08/2010 - 11/15/2010
View Poem Preview©dah ©dahlusion To read this poem, look for my forth-coming second book due in late-summer 2011 from Stillpoint Press. contact: www.mystillpoint.net. Thankn you, dah
SuperChick62
And I Ask... What Does It Matter?
Poet: SuperChick62
Contest Date: 11/15/2010 - 11/22/2010
View Poem Preview“But lest you are my enemy, I must inquire”
HarverTomsson
The First Moon of Elatia
Poet: HarverTomsson
Contest Date: 11/22/2010 - 11/29/2010
View Poem Preview‘twas the first moon of elatia
ApaqRasgirl
Sedated Heart
Poet: ApaqRasgirl
Contest Date: 11/29/2010 - 12/06/2010
View Poem Preview Will you call my name …
Hampton
Silence
Poet: Hampton
Contest Date: 12/13/2010 - 12/20/2010
View Poem Preview    Silence was all that could be heard Al …
HIP13044b
You
Poet: HIP13044b
Contest Date: 12/20/2010 - 12/27/2010
View Poem PreviewI heard your silent scream floating across the invisible waves, leaving me stranded on the sunken island in …

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Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
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