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Round 1 New York won
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Brett Somers
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surging, appreciation, art, city, money,
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I Want Her Back
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
| Free verse |
surging, death, for her, home,
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Search Of A Drift Wood
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
| Rhyme |
surging, analogy, home, remember,
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Night Visitor
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Andrea Dietrich
| Free verse |
surging, anxiety,
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Blessings Beyond Histrionics of Dope and Horoscope
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john sensele
| Free verse |
surging, poems,
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Living The Rainy Day
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
| Carpe Diem |
surging, analogy, hope, rain, rainbow,
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Rainy Day Carpe Diem
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Sheri Fresonke Harper
| Carpe Diem |
surging, life, rain, song, water,
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The Mystic Candle
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Jonathan French
| Romanticism |
surging, love,
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I Beg Pardon
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john sensele
| Free verse |
surging, poems,
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Last leaf
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Mayur Choudhari
| Couplet |
surging, absence, relationship,
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Concrete |
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surging, emotions, passion, romance,
Laws of Deepening Gravity
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Laws of co-gravitation
are more like mutual invitations
originating with NewBorn memories
wombed by MotherEarth's DNA
WinWin empty Reed of Paradise potential.
Vocational streams of gaming wealth
held in healthy mindbodies
WinWin...
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surging, appreciation, courage, culture, deep,
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, Part Two
by Robert Lindley
Achilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods sent that day
mighty king...
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surging, art, death, hero, literature,
dreariness
by colin heavingham
dreariness
slimed in surging drains
alcoholics sane as you want to be
acid and ice options waiting
veins that swell with ecstasy
pulsing in the brain
looking for salvation
what a time...
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ABC |
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surging, absence,
Ablution
by Jeff Kantor
Ablution
08/08/2018
I love my morning ablution
A cure all, my solution
Rids me from pollution
One long steady motion
Sit and read the news
While my bottom spews
Food I haven’t chewed
Flowing...
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surging, fun, giggle,
ANXIETY
by Brian Strand
seasons
of tumult
visible
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surging, anxiety,
Fallen Down
by Gregory R Barden
Angel, fallen ...
Gossamer linen, violet lace
Window-dressing body, pressing
...
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surging, beauty, desire, love, lust,
Odyssey from Africa 16b
by Phil Salmon
16b Stargazing
Here they filed into a hallway
Into almost total darkness
Just a pair of flick’ring candles
Led them to an inner circle
At its center was...
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surging, adventure, africa, animal, history,
UndefeaTed, A Boxing Lesson
by Stephe Watson
UndefeaTed. A Boxing Lesson.
A friend, off the Vineyard,
wrighted a ship.
And, perhaps himself,
and certainly the worlds ‘round him.
His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight
as were...
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surging, boat, cancer, inspirational, integrity,
Protect The Candle Flame
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
PROTECT THE CANDLE FLAME
In life take care of yourself first
because you come in this world once.
To complete duties to the last
you need to give your...
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Quatern |
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surging, care, life, self,
children of the waters
by millard lowe
like seagulls skating
on ocean waters
we navigate the currents
of deception
cascading jelly rocks of defeat
as we flow nile like
upward and onward
splashing into liberation…
water eagles sailing
surging waves…hip...
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surging, allegory, bird, children, imagery,
The Vatican Part Two
by Ronald Campbell
I shall slow down the dark secret of this forsaken church. write all that you can. At once the demons of the church recoiled and...
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surging, religion,
Distant Shores
by John lawless
In the distance they faded
the sounds
soft stony drum rolls
surging surf roiling
gulls shrieking
above the fear
dreams of distant shores
promises
of freedom
a better life
enticed them
realities regimen
dictated – flee
escape, protect
the...
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surging, history, immigration,
Embracing Whisper
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
EMBRACING WHISPER
You may resolve to never cry again ever,
even if in a surging storm your heart shatters.
Words of solace conveyed by embracing whisper
will melt...
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surging, cheer up, cry, heartbroken,
Khatia Buniatishvili's Piano Concerto 1 by Tchaikovsky
by T Wignesan
Khatia Buniatishvili's Tour de Force of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto N° 1 in B-flat minor on Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday*
… the caged-beast terrified defying the donderbus...
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surging, appreciation, inspirational, music, war,
Abandon
by Gregory R Barden
Tossed like pillows ...
Our sleep number slumber so sweetly disturbed ...
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surging, love, metaphor, moon, passion,
Love Has Found A House
by Honestly J.T.
She is more than beauty,
More than words upon the page.
She means so much to me;
I've been given saving grace.
She is more than curves,
Not just a...
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Epyllion |
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surging, crush, emotions, how i
A NEW DAY
by Lorna Malla
Heavenly bodies lit up the Sky
With a smiling Moon on a starry night
A falling Star I see is mine
To make a wish of any kind
To...
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Classicism |
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surging, celebration, day, faith, god,
Erase The Pain
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
ERASE MY PAIN
The flaming flower is stoked by the air of the spring
Pristine beauty in colors flashes on the face it gets anew
Flirting butterflies carry...
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surging, analogy, imagery, lost love,
VIBES
by Leon Enriquez
Feel feeling fine
Live laughter's lines
Glimpse gracious good
Frame feisty food
Joy juggles gist
Lift luscious list
Sense surging sense
Touch tasting tense
Heed hurling haze
Craft cheery craze
Voice vibrant vibes
Taste toilsome tribe...
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surging, allusion,