Best February 29 Poems

We’ve each been given an extra day,
It happens one year in four.
And we will have to account for it,
When God’s adding up our score.

Will you...

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and in my green dream, I find myself in a green lush forest
dripping wet with life, steamy and sultry
I am one with nature and with...

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Your Own Favorite Poem Contest
Sponsor: Carol Eastman

"GOOD BYE, MY LOVE" Part I
Written: December 14, 2015

After the snowfall but before the lily blossoms,
you were this woman...

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Alliteration is awesome;
thanks to thee
it effortlessly erases evidence
of spoonerisms.

Spooky.



Written February 29th, 2016
For the Spoonerisms Contest hosted by Roy Jerden...

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Congrats on your first born, my friend, 
Your playboy days are soon to end, 
Diaper change and sleepless nights 
Come with your new paternal rights....

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I see love begin

I see love begin...in my dreams
my vision of love...in fantasy
Illusions projecting, images all through the night
Silhouettes and shadows, dance until morning light

Chorus
I...

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Precious more than gem stone of great measure
Darling Shantelle as God’s gift is family treasure
Midst rigors of adoption-pressure
Her presence is a delightful pleasure.

Young girl nurtured...

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Please read the rules above. Obey,
Lest you receive a quick “NA.”
So many fail to read my rules,
So many fail to heed them. Fools!

There’s quite a...

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Being arcane is always a thing.
It is an amazing thing to perceive.
In that an individual needs a motive,
Change your fate by being esoteric.

We all know...

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She has the promise to excite a man's imagination
and the expectation she's too giddy to foil.
Similar to a gargoyle, but something makes me question
how statuesque...

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February 29, 2016
Written by Gail DeBole 

A man born into a world of scams
Had a father adept at flim-flam.
He lived by what he was taught
Until...

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Naive Guillotine


I once knew a poet named Balveen
Whose heart was not a touchscreen   
Confused when she read some barbs
Until she was shot by...

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Look Memaw!

I went outside when my grandson called me.
Down the wheelchair ramp I walked while looking.
I glanced all around, left and right, searching.
Then, I heard...

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Hateful words ring out, attacking, 
Full of malice, piggybacking
On the wings of dire dogma that is narrow to the core.

And the people who are screeching
To...

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OOOPS! Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless

Date Written: February 29, 2016
FIRST POEM 

Somewhere between yes and no, where maybe doesn't matter, I slipped beneath the surface carrying your...

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