Best Contest Inspired Poems

...Like delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.

But what are ballerinas with no parts
t......

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...Those were my green and salad days, 
a time of innocence and play, where
marbles shone like pearls and 
every trinket was a treasure. 
The world was simple, a canvas of pure joy
school, home, an......

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...One single dish with one single pea

The sign on the door said, 
Come one and come all
We welcome the short
and we welcome the tall

From the east or the west
or some place in between
Whethe......

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..."Boy! We're gonna be the best of friends!
Lying here, I watch you sleeping,
I sure hope that this will not be a trend
'Cause when we play ball,the goal you'll be keeping

Since Mommy tol......

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...At first glance, I saw forever 
It was love at first sight 
You were so charming and clever

My life long endeavor 
While in your arms all was right
At first glance, I saw forever 

I would n......

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...I hear England's strong voice praising its past:
Football's World Cup glory in 1966,
Shakespeare and Marlowe penning plays,
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigating the world,
Queen Elizabeth I, with t......

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...They laugh and chat throughout each day and night -
much reminiscing, future jaunts to plan,
and what they'd do to put the planet right.
Yes, they will travel - surely they still can!

Adventure......

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...Nonchalant, the leaf whirls without care
On the wind it rides to somewhere
Tree-free, it flies with bird-flare
A swinging light feather
Kite without its string
Airy last fling
Roaming t......

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...A Conversation With Little Red Riding Hood

[I’ve always loved the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and I’ve used it to teach many lessons, especially on perspective......

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...A morning spell 
freshly proposed  
comes quietly in 

yesterday's ambient air   
pushes out of the screen 
archaic puffs of stale   

what meanders out   
is the remnants of me  
before th......

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...winter heart
  
winter prowls
 my barren heart
   leaves
crystal jewels 
       in
 my meadow

1-7-22
Contest: Haiku Contest Inspired by Basho
Sponsor: Damned I -Be......

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...fingers fiddling with
everything at frenzied pace
must slow to make love
                       

*For finger frenzy contest inspired by: Eric “Slowhands” Clapton and of 
course… “experience.”......

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...We cuddled there in days of old,
but now our bench is alone and cold.

For Andrea’s Frozen in Crystaline contest, inspired by Picture Number Two......

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...placid pond
in the moon's reflection—
kabuki dance

1-13-22

HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be 

Thirteen Syllables or Less Contest 3-29-16
Spons......

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...Written by: Shannon Deane
Written:  June 21st. 2011
Contest: Inspired

If you can find me, you'll know where I am
Face in a book, quiet as a lamb
Matter not where I sit down
If I look like a c......

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