May 4, 2026

Winners
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five "hail mary"syou feel like bursting through hospital doors. / repeating names, rushed hands all over my body looking for signs of distress. / you feel like dialated pupils,
@scully20
26
New ChapterI haven’t written in a while. / My pen writes in white — / Blank.
@Mateja18
22
All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Your FriendI’m not just another dumb idiot you met on the street / I have a lot more sense and morals than what you think / I never wanted to make your life complicated
@MidnightVerse32
20
Ocean SlumberIt’s midnight and the world is silent / There’s not a sound for miles around / We snuggle together here on the beach
@ParadoxicalPenguin40
19
the castrato that narrated my life is unemployedi always wondered who was singing tenor / permeated through my life events / an overly qualified voice
@saint-sabeer-amin14
18
CandleYou relit the flame / But took the spark away / So now I’m just slowly burning
@remember_me31
17
A message Ill never sendI almost texted you tonight, / but I stopped… / not because I had nothing to say,
@NEWSAKNA23
16
BlackBlack in my eyes, / black in my heart— / black is the sun of me.
@flame-heart29
13
Bleed to Freedom (death)I don’t think I’ve ever truly wanted to *die*— / I’ve just always wanted to be *free*.
@akyri2
12
PlayingHere the magnolias came and went / I still had your bite marks in when you died: red over white, blue dents rising. / I’ll pay your rent
@branchofthevine10
12
Nothing Comes up CleanThey told me to grow / like it was clean, / like something reaching toward the sun
@thomas-w-case58
10
Sparkle Sparkle , Little Star How Necessary you areThe desire to have our poem in the hierarchy / of the covenant first second and third spots / Ultimately, the top five for the month and
@cj-sutherland45
9
ode to everyday dust"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" / Pablo Picasso / some days I agree with Picasso
@irinia21
9
A ******* they will GoEver since Judas betrayed the Christ, / someone’s been yelling, / “Watch me stab the neighbor in the back.”
@thomas-w-case47
9
The TumorWhen medically removing a tumor, the Doctor does a marginal section to make sure of its total removal it is cut out in all directions If a surgeon operated on me he would have to remove my heart you poisoned it with malignancy and left a cancer in the other parts
@sherri-woodman1
8
This is 'Stralia'I live, / in the country / with dams salivating for rain,
@bekahalle8
7
What keeps returningYou / are fluid and fire / and oh how I desire
@ca14phas13
7
SLAVERYSLAVERY / choice of every economy
@dkdk2
7
AfloatHow foolish of us / To feed the illusion / That we're somehow
@PeterGerstenmaier9
7
THE EMPTY BENCHOutside my window abides a bench. / An empty bench! / Buried in dust and filth.
@ZainabSiddiqui14
6
The Writing That Brings Me Back to MyselfI never truly walked away from writing… / yet somehow, I drifted away from myself. / I try to resist, I try to stay whole,
@NEWSAKNA14
6
next to younext to you / the knot of my hands suffer / from the ermetism of dawn
@irinia15
6
The BasementThe silence was cream-colored with streaks of red - / memories I tried to forget, / forgotten scenes that insisted on being remembered.
@Songbird092665
6
To die is to livePainful memories / Once ostracized from the group / Breaking free I shine
@cj-sutherland10
6
(en)RageI am raging like a summer storm, burning up everything in my path, scolding the land and wickedness, eating up the devil’s wrath. / Even the ten-fold drops of disdain, the rains hath / unleashing, keeping me caged,
@bekahalle7
5
Confucius sayH / E / A
@cj-sutherland12
5
The Prideful SaturnianI come from Saturn, / That which has a halo; / That plain of poppies,
@AtaHH19
4
warming the wingsit’s useless / to want to live the world / when you can’t yet
@girlinflames13
3
FlightExiled / Through / Ineptitude
@badwords98
3
Doggie-KissesFor all our little domestic carnivorous quadrupeds / “Love anything, even a small animal, / and your heart will surely be broken.”
@lawrence-hall15
3
DUCKDuck / Empty hands, / poor duck.
@carlos-alberto-bustillos31
2
CagedMy heart doesn’t beat- / it thumps, / loud, relentless,
@Darksoul16
2
MarijuanaOh, Poet! hear the songs of wild casts, / shed all the feathers of civilization, / life is itself marijuana,
@dkdk52
1
The Frozen FrameIn Griffith’s cold, we store our borrowed fear / in Lillian Gish’s dress against the ice, / where panic whitens into spectacle
@doc_mabuse19
0
The human desirewater bear enjoys / color of life beyond dreams- / the human desires
@dkdk3
0
EntitlementInheritance / By virtue of / Birth
@cj-sutherland54
0
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