Best Contest Life Poems
Listen, my fellow dreamers,
But listen with your heart,
And hear the silent music of which we're all a part.
Cover your ears, my dreamers,
Lest the worldly tunes drown out
The inner magic symphonies of what life's all about.
Listen, listen, listen,
And hear the song of Love;
It's echoing within you, outside, beneath, above.
It's playing in the meadow
And in the city street;
Resounding in your friendships and the stranger that you meet.
Listen, listen, listen,
To the symphony of Hope;
Its crescendo's growing louder to help you grasp and cope.
It's drowning out the concert
Of trouble and of strife;
Just close your ears and listen to this melody of life.
Listen, listen, listen,
To Faith's unending song;
There's magic in its music to make and keep you strong.
Feel the mighty power,
It's flowing through your soul.
Its tune will conquer mountains and fulfill your every goal.
Listen, listen, listen,
But listen with your heart,
And hear the silent music, of which we're all a part.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Premiere Contest: 2019 Marathon Mile 12
Sponsor: Mark Toney
Judged: 01/26/2019
Listen With Your Heart
~1st Place~
Contest: Life ~ Premiere Contest
Sponsor: Janis Thompson
Judged: 05/15/2016
~1st Place~
Contest: Simply Beautiful
Sponsor: Kelly Deschler
Judged: 04/05/2015
Recent experiences in my life have impacted on me greatly
Tell friends and family that you love them - it’s too late when they are gone
Grab every opportunity in life - you may never get a second chance
No one is perfect, we should learn from our mistakes
Stand by your decisions - at that time it was the right choice for you
You may not agree with others but listen to their point of view
Engage brain before opening your mouth - or you may regret what you said
Most important of all ... try to laugh and smile every day
Live every day to the full - for one day sun will fail to rise
Remember life is not a dress rehearsal
We only get one chance before the final curtain falls
30th October 2015
Contest: Life according to ...
Sponsored By Silent One
The complexities of life colours our world
We are taken on a long and sometimes complicated journey
Like being on a roller coaster where there are many twists and turns
No day is ever the same - it can be a smooth or a bumpy ride
Thankfully we don’t know how and when it will end
We can wake up feeling sad and blue
Feel down and depressed on a grey day
If we are jealous we can be green with envy
Be described as yellow if we act with cowardice
See red when we are angry
Feel tickled pink or be in the pink when we are happy
Fall into a dark black mood
See everything in black and white
Say someone has a heart of gold
Look to the sky seek a cloud with a silver lining
We need to hang on to precious golden memories
None of us knows what fate has in store for us
May the colourful ribbons in our life be intertwined
The good days out-numbering the bad
Lots of happy colourful ones rather than sad
01~30~15
Contest: Life is like a Maypole – Seren Roberts
~awarded 2nd place~
Life as a maypole, is an interesting theme
where schemes we might plan can get tangled with dreams
The things I had dreamed of, to better my life,
would often get tangled, with wrong versus right
Some streams of the ribbons, were shadowed with doubt
The world was an ocean, where waves swept me out
Like a sea washing up, at the base of a cliff
I could feel all the breezes, and the winds of "what if"...
Some places I longed for, were mere glimpses of light
Some I still hope for, and pray for at night
Some I could reach, and some I would fight
Then, struggle to swim, against tides of requite
Some ribbons cascade with the hopes I beget
Some hanging limp with the mist of regret
Yet...my life has been woven with green grass and flowers
Where the sun kept me warm, to spend happy hours
Life as a maypole, is an interesting theme
My life as a maypole, is an unending game
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1/3/15
For Contest "Life is Like A Maypole" sponsored by Seren Roberts
Yesterday’s a Golden Urn that holds
The nectar of life’s fruits, both sweet and sour,
Devoured and gone. Let memory recall
The varied tastes enjoyed then stored away
Within the Golden Urn of Yesterday.
Today’s a Golden Plate piled high with life,
Held out for us to eat its wondrous fruit;
To choose and feast on what will make us strong.
Fulfillment is the goal through work and play
That’s served upon the Golden Plate, Today.
Tomorrow’s but a shining, Golden Light
To yet become the Plate, and then, the Urn;
Intangible, but most desired of all,
For glowing in the aura of its ray,
The hope for new Today and Yesterday.
October 28, 2015
~2nd Place~
Contest: Past, Present, Future
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 11/24/2016
~1st Place~
Contest: Life According To...
Sponsor: Silent One
Judged: 11/03/2015
Birth: the first step to journey’s end.
We cannot travel and pretend
That our paths will be all straight
And leave the helm to luck, not faith.
There will be chasms full of gloom
Where evil spirits hide and loom
The eerie feelings forecast doom
And wide-eyed flowers do not bloom;
There will be dangers hard to count
So many mountains to surmount
The angry waves will roll and pound
While furious winds despoil the ground
The weary feet will turn to lead
It will be hard to forge ahead.
But are we going to give in
To the backstabbing from within
Become a prey to currents’ might
Or beat retreat and take to flight?
Oh no my friend! That’s not the way
To reap the fruit of our stay
On this domain where life must rise
Above the slime; so let’s be wise
To turn defeat into a win
To put a stop to faults and sin
To change the darkness into light
To not submit without a fight
To find the means to learn to cope
So that we travel on with hope
Till when we give the final breath
We cross the bridge to life, not death.
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Author: Paul Callus ~ 16/03/2014
Contest: Life is what you make it!
Sponsor: Dave Wood
Placing: 1st
We watched Gone With The Wind,
at Christmastime- it was a tradition each year;
with my mother and we each had a tear,
I used to not like the movie that much;
but in time this awesome movie my heart did touch,
with scenes that have ever stayed in my mind.
Then, I read the story,
of loving a man who will never love you back;
and marrying in a panic attack,
a man you do not love, nor ever will;
reading of a woman travelling on a journey uphill,
with great courage through hardships and glory.
Life lessons in a book,
of not giving up no matter how deep the pit;
of never being a person to quit,
and not caring what people thought or said;
still having hope when all is lost and dead,
this is a novel not to overlook.
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January 25, 2018
Poetry/Rhyme/Gone With The Wind
Copyright Protected, ID 18-9861-35-01
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Written for the contest, Life Lesson From a Favorite Novel
sponsor, Line Gauthier
Second Place
I had tea under a balcony,
and admired the roses
cascading down
graciously
A lone lily
awaiting water...
I breathed in its cool fragrance
before leaving
By mistake
I left my coat
draped like an "el" on its side
over the white chair
The servant said she saw a tramp
with it two nights later,
and he did not smell of
roses or the lily
I have forgiven him,
for what is his life against mine,
singing of roses
and remembering lone lily?
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4/15/2015
Contest - Life
Sponsor - Janis Thompson
Fifth Place Win in Première Contest
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Featured poem of the week
commencing 12/9/2018.
haven of flowers
gyrates through a bee’s travel
nectarines reward
the fertile dance of bloom’s life…
weaving sweet nature’s puzzle.
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Contest: Life Is A Puzzle
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
12/25/2015
The web of life, so beautifully woven
by ribbon paths of which we've chosen.
The colors, then so stunningly enhanced
when we answer the call to join the dance.
Each part important in the grander scheme;
a miss step could crush others dreams.
In dance we cross the paths of others,
becoming friends, or fathers and mothers.
Round and round, the cycle made whole.
In many ways, life is like a Maypole.
01/16/15
Contest: Life is like a Maypole
Sponsor: Seren Roberts
I AM THE WAY....
Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life
No man cometh to the Father but through me
He also said, the wages of sin is death
But there is hope for beyond eternally
Choose Life by the conqueror of death
The One who arose from the grave
I go to prepare a place for you
That is the promise He gave
While it is appointed unto man once to die
There awaits a great gettin' up morning
So don't despair if you belong to Christ
Rest assured, a new day is dawning
What choice have you made today
Regarding life, death, and beyond
Is it the Way, the Truth, and the Life
That can be found in God's Only Son
I pray that you've chosen right
So whenever you hear death's knell
You'll awake in the arms of the Lord
To spend eternity in Heaven, not hell
Curtis Moorman
12 January 2012
For Linda-Marie's contest: Life, Death, and Beyond
Kash
Dream weaver,lover,poet,engineer
Son of earth,sky,water,air and fire
Lover of rainbow,children,poetry and machines
Who feels romantic,poetic and sometimes nostalgic
Who fears of forgetting falling in love,being misunderstood and being called mysterious
Who would like to visit the other side of the moon,his childhood days again and your heart
Resident of milky way
Poet
© kash poet
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Placement: 1st ;(October 2012)
Contest:Life These Days (Bio form)
Sponsor:Carol Sunshine Brown
and Now for Linda's contest
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Life Is A Puzzle
Life is a puzzle;
mixed shapes of loss or reward.
Haven of flowers
or dry fields of trying times,
we try to place our pieces.
One day all will fit.
Through our trial and error,
curve fits into curve;
varied shapes are interlocked...
our life masterpiece, complete.
Sandra M. Haight
~1st Place~
Contest: Life Is A Puzzle
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 12/29/2015
Required words used: Life, Puzzle, Flowers, Haven, Travel, Reward
~NA~
Premiere Contest: Contest 206
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Judged: 09/19/2016
Life Is Like A Maypole.
In our spring, we are born;
our dance begins as inter-woven events
and experiences build our future.
Blood-red trauma,
wraps itself around our happiest moments…
it never wins.
Always uplifted by orange-joys,
winding ribbons, we heal a bit.
Intermingling emotions are etheric ribbons;
round and round, they twine.
Once we are completely enveloped;
developed by life’s dance;
the grey’s of middle-age decline,
begins to unravel;
reversing our celebration until,
death’s icy grip ads its finishing touch.
A soul is born; in growing,
learns and passes into another existence…
re-incarnating for another dance.
Entered contest: Life Is Like A Maypole
Sponsored by: Seren Roberts
1-19-15
While on this earth we have a choice,
Of two paths - wide or narrow.
Which one we choose will seal our fate:
Everlasting joy or sorrow.
The wide path may seem easy,
Living life by our own rules.
Many choose to go this way,
But this path is for fools.
Following the wide road,
Leads to a fiery destination.
People may be kind and good,
But ignore God's great salvation.
The narrow path is not easy,
But it leads to heaven's gates.
Living for God and loving Jesus,
That's the path we all should take.
And when this life is over,
If we've walked the narrow path,
The Pearly Gates will open for us,
But if we haven't, we'll face God's wrath.
Jesus is the key to heaven,
Through His blood we enter in.
Accept Him as your Lord and Savior,
He will take away your sin.
I, for one, am looking forward,
To walking down the streets of gold,
Side by side with Christ my Savior,
The glories of heaven to behold.
Kim Merryman 1/12/12
For Linda-Marie the Sweetheart of PS contest: Life and Death...and Beyond.