March 2, 2026

Winners

who am i without the traumawho am i / without being ***** / at the age of 7

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HP Writers Spotlight: Peter Gerstenmaier~ / March 2026 / HP Poet: Peter Gerstenmaier

@The-Timetables22

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When the World Starts Leaving UsWe walked through forests thick with breath, / and never thought to count the trees. / We treated shade as guarantees,

@Geof_Spavins24

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Other poems

The Cost Of CreatingI talk a lot about art. / My fingers never rest / They ache to hold

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DieI would have died / For you / Even,

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Marionettehear me scream / im in agony / ill be your hostage

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Regret:it follows me wherever i tread / causes all that i dread / when it rears its ugly head

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Only In My DreamsI sleep just to find you / In the quiet world behind my eyes, / Where fate forgets its cruelty

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Piano LovePiano plays / Smoke Induced / Cancer city

@matthias_v22096

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NourishmentHer love is / A force of nature / Not like the storm that

@Jason_R_Michie8

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The Shifting City: The Gallery of Echoes (6)A long hall of pale stone. The walls looked bare until I walked deeper. Then the echoes appeared – silhouettes of the lives I almost lived. / Me in another city. Me boarding a train I never took. Me laughing with someone whose face I couldn’t quite see. Not regrets. Acknowledgments. / At the center, a glass sphere held the sum of my almosts. I touched it. It warmed. And the ache softened. I left lighter.

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Difficult ChoiceI feel as though I have lost my sanity. / Emotions keep bubbling, / Overwhelming me with their complexity.

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DrifterHe drives dreaming, / smoke writhing between / gashed fingers keeps the

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Come homeBaby / Go away / Don’t you dare

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What distinguishes poetry from prose?What distinguishes poetry from prose? / Do I need to write one word lines? / I

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The Wishing WellIn the center of a rather unimpressive town, / There was a wishing well, and people would come down, / With their pennies and their spare change,

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Cave GateI guard your honour at the cave gate, / in a forest full of wolves and vultures, / alone and afraid.

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migratory animals'obstacles' by syd matters plays in the background / she'd be able to find me hidden in any waterfall / just by the sound of the water droplets

@saint-sabeer-amin15

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shameSuch beautiful, blissful, rain. / Transculent, almost, an endless prism of light. / To what extent, in this rain, would I deign?

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RevanchismHave you ever been to Carthage? / It’s the land of beauty and natural magic / Where the brave Hannibal lived

@naeemaabdelgawad55

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THEATRE OF THE LOST PROMISE OF PEACEA war-comedy in seven convulsions, with prophecy and blood-smoke / I. The Lantern Peace / They stitched a peace from moth-eaten treaties,

@marshal-gebbie115

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