Best Highlighted Poems

Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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In Silk and Dreams, breakfast at Tiffany’s 
nights of lavender lace, mornings with dew 
a highlighted garden of mysteries
waterfall wishes, windblown thoughts of you

In a...

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Just a five minute train ride 
But I'm already far, far away.
Staring out through the speckled windows, 
Highlighted against the setting sun.

I'm lost in the...

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A breathtaking panoramic view fascinated my sight into the offing,
As the sea gloriously shows its precious treasure magnificently floating;
Making me wish to be an albatross...

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Old men in blue jeans

Dungarees – that’s what they were called,
heavy, blue denim, metal button fly -
form that followed function.  The “cuffs” were
rolled up...

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One Sunday afternoon in spring,
i was tending my garden,
trimming and watering the roses,
when he first passed by.
I remember standing up to break the ache,
and as...

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The snow fell down- like feathers, flew,
     and clung to everything that grew.
Each branch and twig was fluffed with white-
 ...

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Have you ever met those kind of blokes who get upon your nerve,
when they quote continual references that most think should deserve
a threatening confrontation that...

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Mint stars reaching out to greet the sky 
Cool zephyr blowing across your cheeks
Much nearer, your silhouette appears
Like a fog carried by beams ,you advance
With...

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The people of the state oppressed 
should have a referdum by rights 
God given unto them by speech 
words draws the sword 
To back anything...

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My daughter had been sickly for a time
The flu, they said, her health will shortly climb
A few days later came the call we dread
I'll ne’er...

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Waterfall

Escaping
from far confined spaces
longing for freedom over the rim

Highlighted
flowing wavy tresses
cascading over rocky shoulders

Rushing sounds
of an endless stampede
racing and galloping through the air

Frothy fluffs
of white...

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Art

Plain, white, vacant;
is the canvas…
waiting for the celebration
of color!

One is nothing without the other. 
The boundaries of emptiness, 
the fullness, luster and texture of…
shade, tint...

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ice pick digs deep
breath spews thick mist
foot hold must stick
peak steep cold slope
stay calm keep hold
success not cheap



1st placement
Charles Messina sponsored
Bauk-Than 3 rows of rhyme...

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Something's changed, I don't recall this door.
The mat that once read 'welcome'...now gone. 
Am I lost in the night, or had I forgotten some slight..
had...

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