December 28, 2025

Winners

I Slept, And Dreamed That Life Was Beauty'I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; / I woke, and found that life was duty. / Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

Louisa May Alcott6

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raina symphony orchestra. / there is a thunderstorm, / they are playing a Wagner overture

Charles Bukowski19

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The Burden Of ItysThis English Thames is holier far than Rome, / Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea / Breaking across the woodland, with the foam

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The Curse Of MinervaSlow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, / Along Morea’s hills the setting Sun; / Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright,

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Winter TreesThe wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. / On their blotter of fog the trees / Seem a botanical drawing --

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