March 30, 2026

Winners

We Kissed a BookWhen we lay in the grass reading the skies / In the summer grass, sonnets, love’s sweetest prize / Reading aloud the poet’s iambic sighs

@lawrence-hall10

#1

32

Existential Crisis of a Sock That Lost Its PartnerThe sock woke up alone, / which felt dramatic enough / to justify an existential crisis

#2

24

Its not going to be easy“It’s not going to be easy” / Whispers wreck my mind, / Almost soulless,

@guerrilla_poet22

#3

20

Other poems

The Receipt in My Pocket(An ordinary receipt, doing a better job of keeping track of my life than I do.) / I found it by accident – / a small, crumpled record

22

NightEaterRise. Rinse. Repeat. / The days rot us, / regurgitating redundancies.

14

A Story UnspokenI saw you from afar, / walking towards me / with sun rays resting on your face.

13

good nighti love watching you sleep / lest you wake me up from this dream

@mcdonald-tsiie2

12

DeathI sat in my living room, talking to Death / “Why are you not afraid of me?” he said / I looked him in the eyes and spoke

12

Picking ButtercupsHis father told him, "Boys don't cry-- / Why can't you do what real boys do, like playing football? / Just get out of my sight"--

@kim-johanna-baker20

11

staying the samethe places where / we stretched up toward the sky / are packed up in boxes now

11

A Mothers LoveFrom Kitchen to Plate / *** / She stands in the kitchen,

@PaulBaldryPoetry30

8

Four Months Ago on a Sunday AfternoonFour months ago / on a Sunday afternoon / I told a father

8

Chrysalis, or transmutational hubris, a spiritually grandiose daydream today’s dawn brought me.Morphologically metamorphic integument, aura roan's rainbow mare. / Within your magical integument metamorphosis. / A transpositional interlude that transmogrifies our earthly shell into an immortal puissance, enshrouded in its mystical nimbus, objectified manifest's radix repartee.

@toreinss-pinwinkel-iii14

7

Forged in Adaptation*** / A mission was planned with great care, / Each step mapped with skill to prepare.

@ThePoppiesStillBloom11

7

Artistry"Beloved, I've never painted anyone naked except for Mother Nature / If ye feel a little nervous, know that I am too; let love be our saviour / "I've never been painted in the natural state, so it's a first for you & me"

@kim-johanna-baker18

6

VICEWhat is a man without a VICE? / A hint of venin-green / in all the red that flows—

5

Faded FootprintsThere was a time / my name lived softly on your lips. / Not forced.

@Heart-hacker66076

3

larkspurborn with the blood of ajax / a curse to want heroism / when it's all poison

@saint-sabeer-amin25

2

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