April 14, 2026

Winners
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If April Was A Pretty GirlDo NOT begin. / (sonnet #dunno) / Now blackbirds call with sheer seduction, whence
@JennyGordon17
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The day you took your life.The day before you take your life / no one will know / Because you got good at hiding how you feel
@kayc27
12
Little noteRight before you / Boarded that plane / I hid a little note in
@PeterGerstenmaier23
12
SubmissionHeaven rained on me, / I breathed in the petrichor, / Bathed in the downpour.
@goddessrue3
11
Stormy WeatherWhen there's nothing left to say-- / What remains is silence / And through the silence, the wind is gathering up a storm
@kim-johanna-baker16
10
Time is of the essenceLights are flashing, / Breaths are suffocating, / Limbs are trembling.
@guerrilla_poet64
9
All you can do is . . .When the night is bold / Tolling with the cold / The heart is scorched
@South-by-Southwest18
9
Cowabunga DudeSummer Days Soakin up the rays / Bitchin’,even a Barney wants to stay / Snag a cool parking Space praise
@cj-sutherland56
8
- The Theodicy of Ash -The child is dead. / The earth drank down her cries, / a final, gurgling sigh the rain-washed street
@PenumbraPoet79
7
Moral Of The StoryYou may think that you're in love, / when you're really just in pain.
@kayc2
7
TThe traveler told the tourists / to trek through the tall trees.
@Blue-Sapphire2
7
DepressionI’m scared it’s coming back. / And this time, / I fear
@Wanjiru10
7
NameIf you knew my name, / my whole world would awaken, / to a dream come true.
@lynn-stillman3
6
ambergris (ktfr 24)bloated with wanton desire, i sweat you, / a corrosive man, all tallow and gristle / are you with me? kiss me, charred lips
@acacia12
6
SilenceI tried to conjure up words, / like a song embedded into this / lustrous air.
@Zeno30
6
staring - DEEPlyIntensely deep within / The lifeless gravity / Possessed by past images
@Jaybird745
6
OKI'm only okay / When I say / And I always say
@Vincey6
5
The Fruit Bucket ..In the turbulent evening tide , panning Autumns blue eyes .. / Persimmon pie , persimmon pie .. / Crossing knee high , fragrant scuppernong lanes - in the final gestures of -
@randolph-l-wilson8
5
Someone to my EverythingI Love You. / Do I tell you that enough? / If I’m being honest I don’t tell Anyone that enough—
@akyri14
5
- To Grieve or Not to Grieve -I speak to Grief as if he were a man who learned my name too early. / He sits beside me without asking, heavy as weather, / familiar as breath.
@PenumbraPoet35
5
ObservationsAll is well, the sun is shining, and the sky is almost blue / Except for raging traffic & chimneys obscuring my view / That's when I saw them walking hand in hand
@kim-johanna-baker19
5
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EATonce a man had a thought / that he voiced in a crowd / and it made the air taut
@X-RHYMES24
5
a thousand poems - drafti swallowed every word / i was meant to say. / now they sit in my chest,
@mcdonald-tsiie10
5
SilenceMy silence / never / storm up
@amisha-priya8
5
VIBRANTProphesy / A sign from above / Idle hands
@Jaybird739
5
THE ENGINE THAT OUTRAN FEARFear was the first God I met. / It lived in bottles and weekends, / in walls that shook with shouting,
@marshal-gebbie80
5
Love In A ForestIf a tree falls in the forest, withering into nothingness, not once having any eyes laid upon it, did that beautiful piece of nature ever truly exist at all? I once loved in that way, dedicating my all to the beauty of love, only to never be seen. I gave up seasons of my life to those who were unable to do the same. Spring, the bloom of flowers, the softness of your name like petals unfolding. Summer, the warmth shining down, wrapping around you the way my arms longed to. Fall, the pieces of myself I let slip away, just to make more room for you. Winter, the chill in the air, sharpening the distance between us when you no longer answered my call. No eyes were laid upon it, no witness to what had bloomed, no memory left behind of the beauty we once held. If love is given wholly and fully, but is never truly received, never seen, never understood at its deepest level, did that love ever exist at all, or is it just a tree, endlessly falling in the forest of one’s heart?
@MuaveJay1
5
Carry it like a heartbeatI carry it like a heartbeat I can’t set down, / My way of holding you closer even when you’re gone / A weight in my pocket
@giarose29
4
- Children Fall Often -Children fall often because they are looking up at the world around them, not at where they’re stepping. / Their knees scraped on concrete, tears drying into salt on small cheeks. A teacher crouches beside them, hands gentle, voice quiet. "You have to watch where you’re going, sweetheart." And the child nods, solemn and small, believing that the worst thing that could happen to them is a fall. / But the world changes shape around them. The floors become tiled, the doors heavier, the air thicker with warnings. Now, children fall not from clumsiness but from the speed at which a gunshot travels. The lessons they learn are no longer about letters or planets or how to apologize when you hurt someone’s feelings. They are about how to stay silent in the dark, how to hide behind desks, how to make themselves invisible.
@PenumbraPoet23
4
The Smiling BuddhaWatching the leaves / Falling on a worn-out trail / Gulping the white blooms
@Yashkrit_Ray16
4
TouchI long to Touch you / I close my eyes and feel / What is a touch?
@PoetryByMAN13
4
Where Shadows Come and Go(I Thessalonians 4:14; Romans 8:22). / (sonnet #whocares) / She 'vited me to Easter dinner. They'll
@JennyGordon17
4
SufferingSuffering / Such a complicated word, / for when do you truly suffer?
@Lilyxpoetry11
4
Angst.And so you run. / And so you hide. / Forever running, from what's inside.
@beth-jackson15
4
SPECTERFrom the OUTSIDE IN / As the cloudy / Days and nights
@Jaybird749
4
- In the Name of God -What happens / when someone says they killed / because God whispered it into their bones,
@PenumbraPoet17
3
In The Devil's HandOh in the devils hand / I feel at home / And amongst the rest
@Joshua-Dairy-Fray16
3
my godDoes it feel good? / When i run my lips across your shoulder blades, / Can you feel heaven in your spine?
@rhiannone34
3
The edge of childhoodThe edge of childhood, please take my hand, please don’t let go. / Life is fleeting, and I am losing my grip / Voices in my head and tears that drip.
@dreamprose23
3
She And Lost Love.She has buried one that she loved / no other feels as she does. / One that she spent life with has died,
@TerryCollett19
3
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