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Premium Member Na In Contest - New Limerick Collaboration
My penchant for writing was showing
The comments I received were ‘glowing’
But at the end of the day
I get another N/A
My success in contests is slowing!

WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON ON 1st September 2016

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO...

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Categories: in contest, humorous, poetry,
Form: Limerick



Dickens Christmas Carol Revisited By Nicked Saint
Dickens Christmas carol revisited by nicked saint

Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere 
hammering and whipsawing debris 
ferociously with an angry flare,
cuz mother nature - fed up to here
(re: envision me hands indicating 
over top of head)...

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Categories: in contest, 10th grade, 11th grade, 2nd grade, 3rd
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abecedarian Shared Blessings-
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, shared blessing (2 Tim 3:16)  
Being kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful (2 Tim 2:24) 
Create in...

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Categories: in contest, analogy, blessing, caregiving, encouraging,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member GOOD WISHES FOR MY ENEMIES- ALWAYS-
"For whatever reason, you don’t like me,
All is forgiven, you are forgiven.
I will lay aside all your acts of guile,
Ye have heard that it hath been said.
I shall love my neighbor, and hate your enemy.
But...

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Categories: in contest, abuse, addiction, blessing, forgiveness, humanity, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Starman


Within the swirling currents of stars
He materializes, a silhouette against chaos
He is the whisper throughout time of stories untold

Worn out boots pound the cracked pavement
The echoes of centuries ripple beneath him
He carries a heavy urgency...

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Categories: in contest, future, life, star, storm, time, wind,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I'M a Teen This Is What I Struggle With
{This "Free Verse" entry Received HONORABLE MENTIONS
              IN THE Intergenerational Poetry to Bridge the Generation
       ...

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Categories: in contest, anxiety, community, confusion, depression, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Took the Dare
There were Indians just over the Brazos
With a buffalo herd in between
They weren’t trying to stay hidden 
They wanted to be seen
The chief of these Comanche
Buffalo Hump by name
They say no one's looked him in...

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Categories: in contest, adventure, cowboy-western, native american, horse,
Form: Ballad
The Dignity of Living Beings With Regards To Plants
(The Silent Screams of Asparagus)
4th place in contest

The Swiss, those bastions of “Pease, Not War”
That neutral country to the core
Have gone to the edge – then one step more
On the Dignity of Plants

The killing of...

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Categories: in contest, health, nature, philosophy, satirerights, , western,
Form: Rhyme
When My Big Sister Stepped In-Contest
When My Big Sister Stepped In
                             ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in contest, addiction, growing up, hero, sister,
Form: Verse
Poetry Is Not Perfection It Is Inspiration
Poetry is somewhat unique in that your mind blends an object, person or thing. You become one and then you create an image through your words, each poet is different otherwise all poems would be...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in contest, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sweet Faced Ones With Nothing Left Inside
My path beyond the shores of time
from life to there are maritime ripples.
Harrowing blades of rain
hammered from storm-clouds shatter puddles
of glass to rolling streams of echoes,
Misery’s trail towards cleansing waters:

A bloody throat gasping for water...

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Categories: in contest, depression,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member An Ode To Florence
The sacred lily of antiquity;
                      vital, that centuries have not defied.
   ...

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Categories: in contest, art, beauty, culture, faith, history, tribute,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Seasonal Harmony-POTD
Written: March 12, 2024 For Constance La france Contest

N/A in Contest: No 1294

Rumi Quote: "The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in contest, blue, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gutter Frogs
The neighborhood has been going, to every variety of dogs.
But I simply can’t believe it… We now have Gutter Frogs!
They climb upon my windowsills, and also among the trees.
They climb up my patio screen, is...

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Categories: in contest, fun, funny, happiness, humor, humorous, imagination, society,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Obsession Reflection
I watch the news again with a dubious eye of concern
Another terrorist attack, more animals facing extinctions - I learn
Another natural disaster just occurred - Now that deserves coverage
Should they not be reporting though, more...

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Categories: in contest, addiction, humanity, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A True Love Story
I like to think that Daddy's gold watch chain,
and the way it came about,
was the true story of "The Magi",
that O. Henry had mixed it up a little and changed it, 
as sometimes happens.

I remember...

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Categories: in contest, father, fire, love,
Form: Bio
Public Warrant
Joplin Missouri, May 22, 2011

It came out of the western sky they say
In darkest dark before the morning day
The wind, then rain, then calm, then came the storm
The trees, the cars, the house all in...

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Categories: in contest, natural disastershouse, work, people, house, people, storm,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Spiritual Apathy
My spiritual APATHY has 
            d r o w n   in the waters of a dead reverie,
my intense desperation has
washed up along...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in contest, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Walk With Me To the Shoreline
The calm before the storm
Bids us to ignore the brewing tempest
Still the nimbus are towering beyond the horizon
As inexorably the squall line approaches our respite

Walk with me to the shoreline
For I fear not the fury
Stand...

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Categories: in contest, devotion, hope, husband, life, love, natural disasters,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My Grandma
Both of my grandpas died
long before I was born
and one grandma and I never met.
My daddy’s mama
lived so far away
I knew her by the letters I’d get.

My other grandma lived
quite nearby in town,
not so very...

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Categories: in contest, dedication, family, life, work, work,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Richard the Third - a Poem Especially For Amelia
Amelia she loves to chat and tells an amusing story
But dear readers BEWARE – this one’s a little gory
She worked long hours at night as a barmaid
It was a job she loved and good wages...

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Categories: in contest, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Players of Life
Let me tell you a story…
A story about life, where Solitude gracefully glides into the room, wearing a loose fitting gown, draping her curvaceous form. Piously she takes her place at the table of life,...

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Categories: in contest, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Walk With Me To the Shoreline
The calm before the storm
Bids us to ignore the brewing tempest
Still the nimbus are towering beyond the horizon
As inexorably the squall line approaches our respite
Walk with me to the shoreline
For I fear not the fury
Stand...

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Categories: in contest, family, introspection, love, nature, sad, me, may,
Form: I do not know?
Oh What Fun
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Categories: in contest, caregiving, education, fantasy, friendship, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Aftermath of Hurricane Florence Eye One
Florence hydra logical might -
tee pseudo tentacles, monstrous sight
didst bring watery plight,
deluge rivaling Noah - bliss oblige
     epic flood of biblical
     proportions, downright
terrible, re:, a drowning egregious...

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Categories: in contest, 6th grade, america, depression, environment, heaven, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things