May 6, 2026

Winners
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The Liturgy of the DaringIn this waning world bereft of brilliance, among a mass of millions be known; / Choose to strike bold & boast strength, beyond heaven's pavilions be known. / Lesser souls of hollow words be ****** by comfort’s quiet chain;
@AtaHH10
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The Room That WaitedThe room was already there / before I entered – / a soft geometry of dust
@VerseBuster28
26
Phantom of the BronxConcrete sweat. / The city is a ribcage. / Static in the veins of the Five Boroughs.
@Court-of-Owls31
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If I Die TomorrowIf I die tomorrow, / do not mourn my fading soul, / for I've been broken all my life
@daughterofthestorm28
19
Prayer For Peace (Om Shanti)***What the world needs right now is fellowship amongst humankind*** / ***And when the mind taketh repose, our heart's will once again sing*** / *Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti*
@kim-johanna-baker18
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NakedConsume me like your beloved pastry, / fed to your mouth with a silver spoon. / Peel back my layers, taste the angst of fire,
@flame-heart28
15
PotentialYou never got to see me in that dress / Or walk through the Covered Market / We never got to toast at the top of Varsity
@Borrowing_Problems15
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1,000 times moreI've walked up these hills 1,000 times, / And I've walked down them just the same. / I'll walk up these hills 1,000 more,
@bekahalle16
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ThroeI think of you and I think / Of dying. Of your eyes / So vacant, gone. Not
@Carolineshank20
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Love and the Fool - Lyrics and free song link[Verse 1] / You gave me all your love / Heart and mind and soul
@VictorDLopez72
9
I am a sinnerI am no angel / I am a devil / I laugh at your jokes
@Livingpoet18
8
The Fool's TaxThere is a temptation, when confronted with disruptive economic policy, to dismiss it as improvisation ....impulse elevated to doctrine. That reading is too easy, and in this case, incomplete. / The tariff strategy associated with Donald Trump was not without design. It sought to reorder the terms of global trade by force rather than consensus: to compress sprawling supply chains back within national borders, to reduce dependence on strategic rivals, and to use market access as leverage over both competitors and allies. Embedded within it was a deeper conviction ....that predictability itself had become a liability, and that controlled instability could extract concessions a rules-based system could not. / But this logic collides with the operating reality of modern economies. Trade is not a battlefield alone; it is a network built on time horizons, contracts, and trust. When volatility becomes policy rather than risk, it does not remain contained. It migrates inward. Firms delay investment. costs rise unevenly but persistently. Households absorb the difference in ways that are widely felt but poorly attributed.
@marshal-gebbie37
6
The upside of LogicYou / Have To Have / Bad Days
@cj-sutherland19
6
MOURning there AfTeRFreedom from myself / Saved by grace / Enslaved in my head
@Jaybird744
5
Through all of the SeasonsThrough all of the seasons / I wonder why/ / Caught in swift currents
@DanielTucker24
4
That Was Only YestrdayI wonder if paradise / is really worth the while, / right here is just as nice
@PaganPaul22
4
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