Best Contest Prompt Poems

We cured death on a Tuesday,
launched the trial on a Thursday,
by Friday, 14% of the test group
was gnawing on the janitorial staff.

Still, the press was kind.
“Remarkable resilience,” they wrote,
as Unit 42A chewed through its restraints,
and tried to bite a cameraman.

We called them SoulSavers™,
engineered for eternal...

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I am a bad, bad, BAD boy
*** and NC-17 qualified,
I frequent the easy streets in leisure zone
and walk with a swagger.
I own my time
I own my dreams
I have my own plans,
I am the center of my domain--
I, Me and Myself,
I don't waste my time
to appease...

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must it be for contest prompt to make you read my lines?
must I play up to the theme so that you'll take the time?
must I spend inordinate time to visit everyone?
must it be that what you read are poems that have won?

Won't you come and...

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My speech was all out of sequence, my catch phrase for it was ‘mad gab’
I kept saying balderdash like apples to apples my brain was  a scrabble!  
Also I was hearing things in my cranium, it caused so much aggravation
Likewise, I couldn’t remember...

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"Within the fog the distant mountains strain         
bruised in shades of lavender and forest green     
each angle decomposing in the rain"

I wander across rugged steep terrain
pausing to see the ever changing scene
within the...

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Tragedy of Narcissiphus

The guy had enough letting go of the wicked stone
Held on for dear downhill life and tumbled to the
edge of a lake admired his image and reflected in vain

The picture had arrested in time no mirror image here
In memory encrusted he and the...

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She nested upon
her self-made pyre
preparing for
another genesis
in blaze hues of love
and together they were
a combustible fire

She, the creature
exquisitely
forged by fire
eternally
existing within
love's dimensions
designed
to mesmerize
us, by swirling amber
scarlet, and purple
plumage
with flecks of cobalt colors
delicately dissolving
amid the firelight
shadows, a macabre dance
her last love song

Seemingly born
to say goodbye
and sweet...

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Riding a roller coaster 
Propelled by life’s velocity
Governed by instincts and thought
Driven by an urge to emerge victorious 
Sentience deadened to conscience 
Flitting thus from desire to desire
We built an imaginary script
Of narrow ego identity

Some conquests won
We saw not unshed tears
Of mute weaker souls wasted
Owing...

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Aesthetic works, I think I’ve some,
Creative stage or room decorations? My pleasure. I can.
Compassionate heart, I got especially for young and old,
Drum skill? I could be one of your band members, just call.

Experience in teaching is ample, I do in God’s Glory,
Friends are like flowers,...

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(1) when I am wrapped with a feeling of ecstasy: monoku of 17 syllables or fewer
contest prompt 

a momentary dreamscape in rose tinted formaldehyde...

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Adore the saviour who saves sinners
Confess all your sins truly to repent
Thank you Jesus for opening your way
So I can supplicant to your heavenly tent
Contest Prompt Pray Without Ceasing

(1 Thessalonians 5:17 tells us how to pray.
Some people find it helpful to use the letters A-C-T-S...

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”You will forget me, the love we once shared
Has vanished in the attempt at disguise
The dreams we once knew can’t be repaired
It’s gone with the light that once lit your eyes”

And yet, lest I forget, love is an outpouring unconditional 
Does my judgmental tirade, relegate...

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ocean's face swells
after surf's passed —
new sheer water



- Written especially for Kim Rodrigues' contest prompt- 
"Than-Bauk Variation" to be written with her own unique style
of the form.- :)...

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Mirror, mirror from the wall to online
vanity declares, pick a piece of mine.
Respond, rewrite, re-integrate the theme;
This contest prompt is becoming a meme.

Culture shifts slowly; one stanza at a time. 
Apprentices with reason and rhyme
compose on the edge of vulgar and crass
pieces that are cheeky...

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What I'd like to give you, is an ounce of my perfume
in return for a mere whiff of the soma nectar divine
that breath by breath dialogue with soul may resume
vibrant with magnetic rapture, as bliss throbs assign

Organic pheromones unique to this earth life sojourn
crafted as...

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