Best Contest Entry Poems

I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland’s Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are reaching through the portals…
Ready, anxious, longing
To envelope me
And whisk me away
To places that...

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It was birds Yes Ducks !, Mallards no less
Flown down from Alberta that made this great mess !
I tried to stop them though I shivered in fear
They flew right on past me and landed right here.

They surrounded your cupcakes like an army brigade
and attacked them...

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he used to steal 

all the blankets -

TV remote in hand

I sprawl across

the empty spot on the bed...

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H ope and faith
A re in my heart,
P erhaps this year,
P erhaps a new start...
Y esterday is gone.

N ow I look to 2010,
E ying the dates,
W ondering when.

Y earning for health,
E veryone's worried.
A nother day gone:
R ainy and blurried.

©2009 Danielle White...

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His
damn heart!
Still it beats!!!...

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Covered bridge contest hosted by craig cornish

Father's grave was across the covered bridge.
The river was cold, white, rushing.
It roared on the broken stones, as
the mare stepped onto the planks
pulling her dark carriage on its black wheels.
Her iron shoes fell, dancing.

Shade covered the wreath of lillies.
Unable...

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(draft iiiv)

*-- -- I spent my puberty pursuing Truth,
-- -- while Venus bound Adonis as a youth.*

My passions laid with Mysteries and Signs
the secret workings only hermits see,
those subtleties by which our fates align,
the ways young clocks may seed our destinies.

The vulvas that I held...

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(draft ii)

A rivulet of light appeared,
-- the denouement of night was near.
The birds began to wake the years
-- for fools, and knaves, and cavaliers. 

The denouement of night was near.
-- With feathered songs they hid their fears.
For fools, and knaves, and cavaliers
-- their fortunes, yet,...

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Catie Lindsey poetry contest: Let it Be

Cross Stitch

Years do not heal words
stitched into the mind with a needle,
a sharp needle making its point
over and over,
'til every heartstring is used up.

What now?
What can we say to each other?

Just, let it be.

August 23, 2017...

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If deserted, was I, on an island, and was allowed only three integral items to take with me, what would they be?

If we are speaking of material things, I suppose I would take my favorite book in the whole world, "Ask Dr. Mueller" by Cookie...

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No longer beckoning to my enemies.
Pain and deceit are just memories.
No longer sitting on my stark throne of lies
Luring days of treachery have gone awry. 
Rediscovered my soul, oh the precious gift!
Death of regrets, I beseech to be swift.
My heart and my truth are selflessly...

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Sir Ian McKellen's a blast. 
He once graced a day of my past:
warm crumpets in bed,
my cheeks turning red,
til Patrick appeared with a gasp!

9-14-2017...

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SLEEPWALK LYRICS   CONTEST ENTRY

Sweet love
All I see is your sweet love
When I dream it’s your sweet love
When I walk in my sleep

Sweet love
All I need is your sweet love
All I’ll be is your sweet love
When I walk in my sleep

Now friends may disappear
troubles...

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Painful Angles; Hope gets strangled
New fangled fears forever dangled
Entangled dreams are mostly mangled
Demons wrestled then wearily wrangled

StrAngels chAngeled,
My sweet CocAinegeles!
Those cunning exchAngeles
Outlawed derAngeles...

Oh, ye kind Angels, give me Peace-
From your embrace, never released
Envelope me, and do not cease
Wrap me in your Golden Fleece!

Let me taste...

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The swaying of her hips, 
the movement of her lips,
The way she moved her body
brought him into that one kiss. 
He loved the way she moved, 
she loved the way he talked,
It was a match made in Heaven,
a match made by God.
That single kiss they...

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