March 19, 2026

Winners

A Poet Is Not Perfect...A poet is not perfect although some claim to be / Scribblers of thought watchers of humanity / Pen every emotion fill it with devotion

#1

32

Talk to youYes I want to talk to you / When, everytime of my day / Can we have our own place

#1

32

Polluted HeartA polluted city creates disposable minds. / A stolen book named How to Be Kind. / Within pollution, kids grow up blind.

@Thesilentobserver18

#3

31

Other poems

Old Typewriter Outdated, antique or classic?I found you at the back of the wardrobe / I wiped the dust off your buttons and top / I hoped to revive you, put next to my laptop

30

I am contagiousI have slept in the skulls for decades / curled beneath centuries of silence . / patient as stone, quiet as dead.

29

Reflected GestureA hand lifts, / adjusts the loose strand / that falls too easily across a cheek.

27

Say itutter the words / when it burns / and you can't breathe

@VeiledInMoonlight13

27

My fatherMy father's hands, tender yet the firmest you've ever known / He can fix anything, even the inner chaos of an analogue watch / And I see him building a new gate, one arc at a time through the air - a heavy mallet

@dave-bosworth7

21

Footsteps on Cobblestones(A quiet memory of sunlit streets, shared laughter, and the footsteps that still echo.) / The sun bounced off the rooftops, / gold splinters on the cobblestones.

15

The Sound of SilenceThe haunting ring / of silence / reminds me—

@JosephCousineau5

15

Rent FreeI stay in the forest / Because there is / Nowhere else to go

@CognitiveConflict24

13

She was in greenShe was in green, like the approaching springs / Her allure like the blooming flower it brings

11

Depression ( P.T.S.D.)I laid there helpless, all alone, / My mind, confused, yet full. / Emptiness flowed through frozen veins,

11

Not Who, Not YouLast night I heard a bird go coo, / and I thought—who? / Last night I heard a bird go coo,

@JosephCousineau15

10

RandomWalls bend / — slow — / floors give way,

9

A Moments BloomHave you ever seen a flower / grow by nine / and die by ten?

@JosephCousineau4

8

DadIt's been three score years and ten / And then some, / Another decade in fact

6

HungerThat night, / when the dark coiled like a serpent around my neck, / I saw her…

@Marwan-Baytie69

6

The Tell-tale Tail -Minerva thinks she's vanished, quite, / a shadow poured into the night, / that pools beneath the window seat,

6

My Lost HeavenIf they asked me about heaven. / I would draw your picture. / I was really smitten.

5

Your PoemsYour poems / Soothing rain / I bathe in them

4

Unfold me“Just beneath touching, / under the layer contact, / there’s a yearning.

4

Love Me A River (First Draft)My darling be true, even at the edge of our glories, / corner the light that reigns our stories. / Love me a river, let the fishes come through,

3

The sudden rush..and then She'll say, / but I need a holiday / and with a big smile

@john-edward-smallshaw24

3

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