March 20, 2026

Winners

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

@JosephCousineau4

#1

37

Lottery girlI am lucky, people tell me so / lucky my eyes can watch the daylight glow, / lucky to wrinkle up my nose at food

#2

33

LOVEThrough my mother, I first tasted / the sweetness of LOVE — / Father adorned it with genuine care.

#3

18

Other poems

Times Like ThisTimes like this, / make hell seem like / a pleasant place

@JosephCousineau5

35

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

@JosephCousineau15

35

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

@JosephCousineau5

35

**** That NoiseI've been taught to hate yet / I can just find love for / The ones y'all are pointing

@CognitiveConflict91

17

Fusion coreLight comes every day, / creeping into my bedroom, / like a blade of gold,

17

forever and always (collab w guerrilla_poet)I know this seems long...but its worth reading :) / As the silver moon and soothing ocean kiss in the silent night, / The white lantern gazes over its imperfect light,

16

Here You Go AgainWhispers of passion on a night such as this / waiting by the courtyard for your gentle kiss / One single red rose and I am lost in your time

14

A moment that was notIt persists - not clearly formed, not something I can properly define, but as something I once expected to become real and now only allow to remain possible. / The air still holds it, flat, unchanged, a thin stretch of stillness I return to without reason. / Nothing claimed it, nothing asked it to remain.

11

to my rose.i don't know what i'm supposed to say in this situation and i don't know how i'm supposed to go on if i find out you're gone and i wish i had been better to you. i wish i had messaged first and i know its ****** that i only say this now. i should stop talking about myself / because you / oh my god, you

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