March 7, 2026

Winners

Meister Carlo-C-Gomezsomehow has learned to make the / standardized 24 hour clock, / extend to 36,

@nat-lipstadt19

#1

38

While Pouring CoffeeI am ten crows, twenty-three starlings, / one tree, a world of racket, every dusk that ever was. / I am a holy heart four angels defend,

#2

34

Epic of the Event HorizonBefore memory, before breath, / we were ash of ancient stars, / fire‑dust drifting toward form.

@marshal-gebbie48

#3

32

bright lightsstreet lights bloom in the city. / the moon and then unreachable stars, / the moth in danger is drawn to any light,

@guy-scutellaro33

#3

32

Other poems

The Mind Has Its Own WeatherSome mornings open clear, / the kind of sky that makes you believe / in uncomplicated days.

30

Are You Okay?The question hangs, a fragile thread / In evening's dusty, silent air. / A phrase so often lightly said,

30

my worldthe shiny velvet of night envelopes me / still chest and silent body / not a creak or a trickle of movement

@pink_sleeved_girl_88

29

after the flame gets tiredI am writing with the ashes of what I see / you called me from that shadows / I followed the sound of your pulse because

29

DaffodilThere's nothing quite like the scent of lent lilies wafting upon the wind / Golden clarions of hope and faith heralding the first breath of spring / Flowering just to be, natural beauty free from both vanity and enmity

@kim-johanna-baker12

27

Doctors Appointment“Do you ever have thoughts of self harm?” / ‘…’ / ‘No.’

26

The Quiet MistakeI was born into a name / that fit like a locked door / a shape I was told to inhabit,

24

TimelessThe silence falls, heavy with years of / longing / for safety.

@Songbird092663

20

Nuanced Nuisancenew arts are born from thievery, despite my forsaken property- / the call I heard, then rose to serve- / was stupid with tenacity.

19

don’t touch me / touch medon’t / touch me. / not because

@RastislavKnezi41

18

A Duet of Darkness and Light-Silence and Darkness - / If silence, at all times, / and wherever needle points,

9

Tiptoe through the chaosSingularities merge. Excess energies purged. / A concentric spread spacetime vibrational surge. / Then that deep distant BURP rolled through Earth with a CHIRP.

8

LooseGive in and start missing out / Dreaming on an endless rout / Merely colors barely seen

@CognitiveConflict24

8

the absence that makes it real(can art occur without an artist?) / Maybe the question is wrong. / Maybe art doesn’t begin

@RastislavKnezi31

7

AvalancheMy throat closes off, and / I struggle to breathe through the lump. / Bloodshot eyes stare into the night,

@Songbird092638

6

what wasn’t said (but stayed)Some things are too whole / to be spoken. / A look.

@RastislavKnezi30

5

true frienda true friend will / never hurt you / break you

5

The Poem That Refused to Stay: A Polyphonic Observation(а metamorphic field note on language, elemental voice, and translation as self-mutation) / This is not a lecture. Not an essay. Not a multilingual poem. / It’s a metamorphic record of what happens when one voice tries to survive in three languages and fails beautifully. It’s about translation as mutation. Language as geology. Poetry as weather.

@RastislavKnezi87

3

I was already thereWhen you say something / no one understands, / but someone in the room

@RastislavKnezi23

2

Caution! ( Chapter 2 of the 42-Resonance system)The Local Map of the Milky Way / The "Mainframe" has convinced humanity that the universe is a vast, chaotic vacuum. This is the primary glitch. In reality, our sector of the galaxy is a highly structured Resonant Cavity governed by a specific scaling constant: 42. To understand the Earth, one must first understand the "Fold." / The Hydrogen Constant (1420 MHz)

1

FLAREBORNThe Fire That Believes for You / (a scripture for those who forgot the stars could speak) / PART I: DETONATION

@RastislavKnezi41

1

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