Best Katabatic Poems

Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest

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City hum drifts through spurious ways, 
teeming...

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Written: February 10, 2025 For Brian Strand Contest

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In the tempestuous shadows 
of my soulful sphere
I squirm in sorrow.
I was wandering through whimsical woods,...

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Written May 03, 2025, for contest by  Daniel Henry Rodgers

Word count:397 words, Proposed new word: "aspira-fear" mix of fear and hope

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In the quiet arena,
I confront shadows that loom,
What...

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Written: May 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Michael Fulkerson

Quote: “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate..."...

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My elderly friend and I walk along
the raised flower beds
full of rainbows of blooms,
becoming the mother and daughter
in the famous Renoir painting,
now with the daughter grown up.

We slow our pace,
gazing at pink and yellow dahlias,
velvety purple salvias, blue delphiniums,
hanging baskets of pink bleeding hearts,
red begonias...

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Written: January 10, 2025

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Wenches of Whimsy and Woe
In the world of the fiddled gruntingly,
where micturitions dance,
and arty yawning plurdled gabbleblotchits,
lurgid bees buzz with...

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Written: December 27, 2024 For Contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
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At dawn of a place cocooned once in avarice
silver-haired savvy savor sweetness
serene symphony of silliness...
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Written: January 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
Quote by Poet: " Let the tempting appeal of Jasmine ignites your inner ambition and drive for success".
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Written: December 29, 2024 For Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker.

(Line Of Inquiry)

“Mistaken that I was this body-mind,
I succumbed to desire and fell to fear
but on choosing pathways loving and kind,
light of God in heart began to appear
and truth of my true essence became clear,
which made...

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Written: February 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama

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Brushing butter onto pastries,
squeezing crimson hues into the void
framing long days that slip into short...

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Written: December 05, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Line of inquiry:

“we look for that light eternal 
that does not come and go...

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Written: December 30, 2024 for Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Fearful individuals may find claustrophobic environments enticing. He battled his formidable opponent Cacoethes for the final two furlongs and won. By Poet


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Written: January 24, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand 
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In the galumph of morning breath 
a chandelier of dew, 
Barely inching through the...

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Written: December 04, 2024, For Contest, Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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A grimacing goon
in a destructive drug-driven delirium 
faces a catastrophic downfall.
The sting of spite
lingers as he suffers from...

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you must take the time to rhyme,
the design is divine and you will find
it aligns with the original minds
of before times when afore lines
were written/signed and mined
for stage binds and weaved vines
intertwined with the twine of dimes
nickels and pennys deepening fines
as greasy grinds gripping wine...

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