WE MUST NOT FORGET
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It’s great for America to savor our success in life…and the people who helped create them…
To remember our victories…and take time to celebrate them…
We are a country of the industrial revoluti...
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Categories:
noting, history,
Form: Rhyme
Silence Is Beautiful
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Poetry Contest //Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
( 1st Place )
Written: August 07, 2025
They say stillness is absence, an empty space between worth noting,...
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Categories:
noting, inspirational, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
To the Flowers
...Oh! flowers why are you spreading,
Fragrance and beauty without any cost ?
You are being sold in market at a cost,
Your quality and your beauty are selling.
Oh! flowers why do you spread your...
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Categories:
noting, africa, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Social Dysphoria
...I admit to my defeat ...
I've been vanquished.
No other loss I've ever known,
Has left me this anguished.
What makes it worse is
Not knowing who really beat me.
As they were invis...
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Categories:
noting, conflict, confusion,
Form: Quatrain
L M N O P
...Lively little lucky Lucy Lulu
Manages milk cows who cannot moo
Noting Nor a Nebraska Gnu
Overseeing the ornery ocean blue
Providing pike for little Lucy Lulu...
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Categories:
noting, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: ABC
How I Met the Love of my Life
...Tall and willowy she stands
out from all the other women;
her face most expressive
when the choir sings a song.
"Out on the Mira, on warm afternoons..."
her voice blends so easily,
a tone clea...
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Categories:
noting, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
The Long Forgotten Cemetery
...Strolling along a winding country lane the other day,
I came upon a desolate cemetery in abysmal disarray.
'Twas barely visible, hidden among overgrown weeds and brambles;
Untended over time, it h...
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Categories:
noting, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
grateful neighbor
...Jack’s wife is tired of swimming
She sits inside their camper in her teddy
Nursing a Bud light in a brown bottle
Wondering when he will return from his fishing
A neighbor friend of her husband ...
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Categories:
noting, woman,
Form: Free verse
Interview With an Angel
...Nervously checking my hair,
Noting the silver is peppered with grey.
My hand trembles as I put on my lipstick—
My favourite shade of pink.
My reflection bears a frown,
But today, I turn it upsid...
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Categories:
noting, angel, daughter, memory, mother
Form: Free verse
The Sunshine Singers Come to Play
...In dribs and drabs, in fits and starts,
the elders slowly congregate;
in the common room of the seniors' home,
they patiently sit and wait.
Some are wheeled in, some simply shuffle
in orderly fa...
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Categories:
noting, age, appreciation, celebration, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Look Within
...Look within
It may be the only chance we have
to peer into, and to glance back
So, noting all around us,
this is of course the way,
All present moment sounds,
Observations taste and smell,...
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Categories:
noting, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
look out the window
...i look out the window
everything is beautiful
noting compares to this
the world around me
the smiles that can not be measured
i feel unsure
but i walk out
that made sense
that felt righ...
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Categories:
noting, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
O Here's another Paradoy for both those on the Left and those on the Right part one
...O Here's another Parody for those both on the left and those on the right.
Both sides don't know they both have a very common enemy for them to fight.
There's much more than a heavenly fight betwee...
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Categories:
noting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Love Story for the Ages
...He gazes softly down at her
noting her tired and weathered face.
He remembers the girl he once knew
with her delicate beauty and grace.
She remembers their first dance,
even recalls the words ...
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Categories:
noting, love, marriage, romance, sweet
Form: Rhyme
invited to casserole
...Casserole was unpalatable
I did not ask for the recipe
Some of the ingredients I barely recognizing
Who puts mashed potatoes with green beans?
Would ketchup have added to it? Did it need onions...
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Categories:
noting, food,
Form: Light Verse
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