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What Makes Me Smile 2

Contest Judged:  6/29/2025 6:56:00 AM
Sponsored by: Karen Jones | Send Soup Mail
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 PlacePoemTitlePoet
Contest Winner Medal 1 FAMILY LOVE Beata Agustin
Contest Winner Medal 1 Still, I Rise in Color Becoming trude from the ruins
Contest Winner Medal 1 Emergency Department Christine Watts
Contest Winner Medal 1 Smiling Game David Crandall
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Might Make You Smile Jasmine Tsai
Contest Winner Medal 1 How I Met the Love of my Life Jim Healey
Contest Winner Medal 1 Daughter- Whenever you smile Jesu Johnson
Contest Winner Medal 1 That Which Makes Me Smile I Am Anaya
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Makes Me Smile Len Gasun
Contest Winner Medal 1 You Make Me Smile Oliver Mckeithan
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Makes Me Smile Mystic Rose Rose
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Makes Me Smile Tania Kitchin
Contest Winner Medal 1 Between You and Me Regina Mcintosh
Contest Winner Medal 1 My Strength Crystol Woods
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Makes Me Smile Marilene Evans
Contest Winner Medal 1 My June Jewel Ink Empress
Contest Winner Medal 1 What Makes Me Smile Valsa George
Contest Winner Medal 1 This should make you smile too Speaks Volumes
Contest Winner Medal 2 Smiles Of Childhood Days Nette Onclaud
Contest Winner Medal 2 A Season of Smiles - Updated x2 Trina Layne
Contest Winner Medal 2 Firefly Night Ron VanHooser
Contest Winner Medal 2 The Little Bead Nina Laurendale
Contest Winner Medal 2 Yummy Food Makes Me Smile Andrea Dietrich
Contest Winner Medal 3 Jubilant Brian Sambourne
Contest Winner Medal 3 Poetic Justice Greg Gaul
Contest Winner Medal 3 The Buoy of Refreshing Thompson Emate
Contest Winner Medal 3 Come On! Put a Smile on Your Dial! John Anderson
Contest Winner Medal 3 Southern heat wave blues JRE JRE
Contest Winner Medal 3 - All What You Need - Anne-Lise Andresen
Contest Winner Medal 3 What Makes Me Smile Paula Goldsmith
4 Monsoon enchantments Apurva Prabhudesai
Honorable Mention Nature Nathan Joseph


Contest Description

What to Submit?

1 original old or new poem on the theme of ..What Makes Me Smile. No AI please. I'd like to make this a book and publish it at my own expense then give the book to patients to read during chemotherapy or other hospital stays. Come on soupers let's do this with our best work! The name of my publishing company is Kandle Publishing. Please help me be a light! Thanks.
Any form is acceptable.

Prizes

First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Twelve Honorable Mentions

Preparing Your Entry

Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts. 

English Language

Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.

A Note to Poetry Contestants

You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.


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