May 22, 2026

Winners
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TOO CLOSE TO CALLTOO CLOSE TO CALL / which one of us died? / I hear myself moan
@X-RHYMES22
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LiminalLove feels like someone pressing the pause button and all of life is **still**... / For a moment you can be your best self or live in fear of who else is t h e r e... / Love,
@racquel-davis14
21
title schmitleshe thinks she's coy / with her shy look away / and like a ****
@dude21
17
Dont goPlease don’t / Go / Stay with me
@rosebuds1131
14
Before Saying Goodbye (your version/my version)BEFORE SAYING GOODBYE TO HIM / In the cold December winter, / after watching a movie together,
@YouAndMe44
14
Night ShiftAnother night shift from hell loomed heavily in her mind / "How did I become a pimper's paradise?" / Maybe it stemmed from childhood abuse & unworthiness
@kim-johanna-baker24
11
The Nail That FailedEvery wall, every painting, left behind. / Carrying the weight of memories, never mine / Rusted and left confined,
@Hazel_Dusk20
10
Romance.Embracing the warmth of your gentle soul / I find myself tangled up in the whispering beats of your heart / Butterfly wings flapping inside the romance
@blackcatpoetry13
10
In the Garden of Her Wintern the garden of her winter, hope lies beneath / the hardened earth of heart, which steadily bequeaths / a single green petal, fragile and alone,
@SoulManKen20
9
Little bit of meThere's still a little bit of me, / playing our imaginary games, / there's still a little bit of me,
@Nick-Moore12
8
A Flash of YellowThere may be many / More or fewer / For who knows our future
@william-a-poppen22
7
Emotional *****The heaviness of this pain, / Crushing every part of me, / Tried to erase but in vain,
@Moonwings22
7
"Are You Okay?"“Are You Okay?” / —---------------------- / If I asked “are you okay”
@OliviaWilliams32
7
click, click, click, click"Ka-ching" used to be / the chime everyone desired to hear / clanging,
@bekahalle11
6
In the Shadow of SatanThe world doesn’t end in a flash. It stumbles. A crisis begins not with a master plan but with a misread signal, a cyber intrusion mistaken for a launch, a leader reacting to shadows. No one wants Armageddon; they just want to avoid looking weak. That’s how the first exchange happens .... short, brutal, and almost entirely in the Northern Hemisphere. / Cities burn, but not all of them. The strikes fall on silos, airbases, ports, command centres. The doomsday maps are wrong: most warheads never leave their tubes. The world’s arsenals were built for deterrence, not for use, and even in chaos, institutions slow the hand that reaches for the final key. / Fallout doesn’t sweep the globe in a cinematic wave. The atmosphere refuses to obey the fantasies. Northern fallout stays north for weeks. The Southern Hemisphere absorbs only the long‑lived dust that drifts down slowly, unevenly, over months. New Zealand is not spared .... but it is not erased.
@marshal-gebbie8
5
Vigorous PrincessYour perky smirk / dainty / like pink petals of cosmos
@theromantic12
5
Why?I love you, / but you— / you hurt me.
@Shattentraumer20
5
Weaver and the Storm (2026)Wǔxíng Category: Water (水) / 5-xx / The sky splits open in sudden generosity,
@Liujiawen202438
3
Here Inside Of YouI love walking through your eyes and finding myself, / lost in a world of unending beauty, tranquility, and warmth. / I feel like I'm floating on a cloud every time you whisper my name.
@AlanBaxter20
3
Pearls before SwineThose born to slander / are the swine of their / own destruction
@South-by-Southwest12
3
The Naked Truth and the LieThe Truth and the Lie meet one day. / The Lie says to the Truth, / “It’s a marvellous day today!”
@PaulBaldryPoetry38
2
DestinyWhen my pen is dipped, / in the ink of destiny, / my story is written.
@lynn-stillman3
1
The Paint that will not fade ..A nameless hand dwelt where the ink and margins bend, / beyond the court, beyond the gilded name; / he walked the pale, uncelebrated end
@MalcolmG74
1
Lacuna*Merriam-Webster Dictionary* / *Word of the Day* / *21/05/2026*
@Geof_Spavins14
0
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