Best Katabatic Poems
The Prismatic Self...
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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Categories:
katabatic, appreciation, community, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Rubble of Hate...
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......
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Categories:
katabatic, angst, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Slab City Crisis Tamed...
Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest
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City hum drifts through spurious ways,
teeming in a wild, woody w......
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Categories:
katabatic, angst, city,
Form:
Free verse
Soothing Kaleidoscope...
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 wan......
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Categories:
katabatic, conflict, love,
Form:
Free verse
Palimpsest of Love...
Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba......
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Categories:
katabatic, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Walking In Butchart Gardens...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 o......
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Categories:
katabatic, flower, friend, nature, ,
Form:
Imagism
Worries Whimsical Woes Vogon Poetry...
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 ya......
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Categories:
katabatic, adventure, appreciation, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Manifesto...
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 sav......
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Categories:
katabatic, america, angst, health,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Jasmine...
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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Categories:
katabatic, analogy, beauty, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Recognition...
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 choos......
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Categories:
katabatic, god, surreal,
Form:
Monorhyme
Chaos-My Captivating Muse...
Written: February 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
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Brushing butter onto pastries,
squeezing crimson hues into the v......
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Categories:
katabatic, angst, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Embers of a Fading Love...
Written: May 26, 2025, for contest by Joseph May
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In the silk-laced dusk, angels softly dwell,
Love and grief entwine, weaving stories to tell.
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Categories:
katabatic, analogy, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Light that lights all lights...
Written: December 05, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Line of inquiry:
“we look for that light eternal ......
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Categories:
katabatic, analogy, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Cacoethes...
Written: December 30, 2024 for Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Fearful individuals may find claustrophobic environments enticing. He battled his formidable opponent Cacoethes for t......
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Categories:
katabatic, conflict, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Point of No Return...
Written: May 31st, 2025, for contest by Kai Michael Neumann
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In the stillness of twilight, shadows sway.
and a delicate craft rests on the shore,
embarkin......
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Categories:
katabatic, analogy, conflict,
Form:
Free verse