Long Contest inspired Poems

One single dish with one single pea

The sign on the door said, 
Come one and come all
We welcome the short
and we welcome the tall

From the east or the west
or some place in between
Whether yellow or...

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A Conversation With Little Red Riding Hood

[I’ve always loved the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and I’ve used it to teach many lessons, especially on perspective and morals in my classroom, so this contest...

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French Version -

Demain, dès l'aube by Victor Hugo

Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de...

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placid pond
in the moon's reflection—
kabuki dance

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HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be 

Thirteen Syllables or Less Contest 3-29-16
Sponsor Timothy Hicks

*Kabuki, traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a...

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At last, by night, that tarries late,
they hurry home, to Father's rage,
without a chance to plot their way.
The floodgates fail, as the young miss cries.

A handsome lad, pleads with his eyes,
while telling tales, of how...

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This is me having conversation with the younger me.

Me- Hi how are you? 
Younger me- I'm not doing so well.
Me- What's the matter sweetie?
Younger me- I don't know why he chose
to do bad things to...

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Here I am in a Hotel Room
Far away from the ones I Love
I turn on the Telivision to dull the quiet
I wonder who else has layed on this bed?
Perhaps other lonely souls
Maybe young Lovers unrestrained
Passion's...

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I started in to writing
In my home on Lovers Lane
Yes – the one the poet wrote about
You know – old what’s his name
The lane was still arch covered
With elm trees giving shade
But now it is...

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Those were my green and salad days, 
a time of innocence and play, where
marbles shone like pearls and 
every trinket was a treasure. 
The world was simple, a canvas of pure joy
school, home, and the...

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(25 second instrumental . . .)

Yesterday there was love
Your eyes blue as the sea
Yesterday there was love
Full of sweet happy glee
Each day was divine

To guard and hold dear
And to treasure for all time
And then you...

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Entered in Miranda's contest "Inspired"  
Written by Joyce Johnson 6/20/11



Whenever I sit at my processor,
I pull words right out of the air.
I search this empty head of mine
and they do not come from there.
Sometimes...

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Written: May 27, 2024, For Robert James Liguori Contest, Inspired From Glenn Hughes Song " Burn"

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The sky spills scarlet, a burning...

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"Boy! We're gonna be the best of friends!
Lying here, I watch you sleeping,
I sure hope that this will not be a trend
'Cause when we play ball,the goal you'll be keeping

Since Mommy told me you would...

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You drift away free from the dark wasteland of life 
Grow wings to fly unbound in the draping sunshine 
Soar high up above the verdant plateau of the woods
Sing the enthralling spring song of the...

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The azure ecstasy of the glistening autumn sky 
fades away with the blizzard of the polar wind.
As on the wings of winter the golden leaves fly,
gone with the surge the fleeting joy of the mind.

On...

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Written by Paula Swanson


Here at my desk I sit,
with silence all around.
Just the hum of the frig, 
a clock in the background.

An old brass lamp with green shade,
sits back, off to the right.
A paperweight of...

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Like delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.

But what are ballerinas with no parts
to make them dance? The poet gives them hearts!
Inking...

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At first glance, I saw forever 
It was love at first sight 
You were so charming and clever

My life long endeavor 
While in your arms all was right
At first glance, I saw forever 

I would...

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There are some of us, not contest inspired
Who write of our lives and all that's transpired
We write of our pain and we write of joy
Our own themes and memes, are what we employ

Our muses amuse,...

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I long to live in a world where love and peace 
reign.
Where all will know true freedom no matter 
what.
Where homelessness cease to exist, all over
the land.
Where folk embrace their fellow man to become 
a...

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Once there was a love
That was a pearl of dew
Glowed in my heart’s meadow
In its luster I found your charm.

In your charisma glittered a love
Brighter than the patina of rose
The wafting scent reminded me
Once there...

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My yesterday of long ago
when our love was warm and tender
filled with minutes,
that flowed on a river of passion
as our hearts explored the eternal depth,
of love's glorious light of romantic interludes

like ripen fruit we bathed...

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In your joyful time 
you would remember,
I sang for you all,
when the wilted leaves began to fall.
In the barren forest,
reposing abandoned on dry grass,
I sang for you all,
when the wilted leaves began to fall.

In your...

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They laugh and chat throughout each day and night -
much reminiscing, future jaunts to plan,
and what they'd do to put the planet right.
Yes, they will travel - surely they still can!

Adventures many years ago at...

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Mom cradled the moment
as she cradled her child, 
at sixteen silent words .. spoken

A lullaby through weeping red tears   
as she cradled her child, 
hope in his honey brown eyes fears

Melting her soul...

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