March 2026

Winners
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The Way I LoveTo love someone / Is to love them / For who they truly are.
@Mateja52
176
levelbrother is digging barehanded in the backyard a hole for what he hopes is the alien of god’s choice. as for existence, my mother’s is low on mine. my father is keeping out of the same sentence any mention of ****** and totem pole. no one including you cares for my sister’s worry that this no this is the bottom of a rock. if asked, I will say I was visiting with my arms the museum of rowboats during the regional spike in baptisms we as a family failed to interrupt.
@barton-d-smock1
171
Palm SundayIn full sunlight / I am here / in continuum
@Agnes-de-Lodz21
161
OsmosisI have never understood / how some people can kiss / and remain continent,
@poetriesgrave51
155
I Reached Out Across the Great Divide to Touch You and Felt Only a Chasm~ / *Where went utopia / As the years trickled?
@Carlo-C-Gomez52
139
our grief is a data pointbombs are exploding into the design of our lives / clocks, once stiff with certainty, now oozing down / the mantelpiece like Dali’s prophecy
@irinia25
133
HP Writers Spotlight: William A. Gibson~ / April 2026 / HP Poet: William A. Gibson
@The-Timetables34
123
The Evening I Almost Held(A moment caught between light and silence, almost close enough to hold.) / I carried the evening lightly, / as though it might slip through my hands,
@VerseBuster24
122
Sonnet to RebirthThe bar stinks of rancid smoke and despair, / My hands tremble like the leaves on autumn trees. / Years poured down the waste pipe, empty chairs,
@thomas-w-case14
115
Poetic YouIf a poet is under 18, is he a minor poet? / If a poet is in the army, is she a major poet? / If a poet is unmusical, is he an unsung poet?
@lawrence-hall10
106
Fur and fangEach time I ventured out / into the wood, / I came back with less.
@Griz20
95
II am smoke from a discarded cigarette. / I am a dogeared page in an obscure novel. / I am rain on the ocean.
@LoriJonesMcCaffery16
93
PhotographIroned shirt, / blue-grey floral dress, / too many words,
@Agnes-de-Lodz17
60
Why Rattlesnakes Can't Be Ninjas.I s’ppose rattlesnakes can’t be / ninjas. Yes — they got / the striking and the stinging
@john-leuven16
59
UFOsWe were never meant to / crash and burn / like UFOs
@WhitHowland9
59
Dear Blue birdDear blue bird, / Tears drop as I hold you, / You’ve become an eclipse,
@guerrilla_poet20
54
UNINSPIREDInspired by Sir Newton, / I sat under a coconut tree, / hoping to find
@Blue-Sapphire21
54
Don't forget how far you've come!Healing, / True healing; / Not just surface wounds
@bekahalle27
50
Pebbles unwantedNo warning given, / just a restless tapping / deep under the skin,
@Pink-pulse24
50
wordswords / they’re funny things, aren’t they? / they can paint a blush on my pale cheeks,
@wishstar0654
49
I'm still your daughterI wish I could speak / about what happened to your daughter, / but your heart has already carried
@Ash_22
48
The Life of A PoetPeople ask me what's my inspiration and I can answer with no hesitation That anxiety is my motivation not a subject, life or some vacation Poetry just flows through my veins inside my head, driving me insane Until I get it out, I can't breathe it's like a living thing in me Every day I wake up and it begins it even happens when I'm dreamin' It can set the tone for the whole day then I'll get up and write the day away If I ignore it, the urge grows strong I hope I'll forget it but I am wrong Rhymes roll around in my mind building momentum if left for a time Tormenting me ,coming to life I write it down just to survive
@sherri-woodman1
47
Too Much to Be One(the truth written in plural) / where does the gathered self sound? / not begin
@RastislavKnezi79
44
a whisper, and then gonewe watched the sun sink / below the horizon, / our footprints in the sand
@guy-scutellaro17
42
heavens empty hoursGive me but some music / - in heavens empty hours - / a piece of song, giddy-paced
@anaisvionet26
39
DepressionI wake up every morning, / With a weight i cannot see. / No one placed it on my shoulders,
@Lilyxpoetry8
38
Dishwater DreamsFive bucks an hour. / Scrubbing filth from steel. / Hands shaking.
@Twc13
37
ProofI looked for you last night / I knew you were hiding.. / Hiding inside my heart.
@MrsTimetable9
36
CandleI'm a candle / slowly burning down / but flickering with hope.
@lynn-stillman5
35
I always notice.Do you ever get that feeling / That means you are constantly revealing / The minds of all, secrets of all
@remember_me44
34
NumbThe path drains me of the essence, / leaving in numb silence. / Working for a life I never got,
@flame-heart14
34
My GranddaughterMy granddaughter and me / the best artists to ever be! / We make, we write, we draw wild things,
@Marwan-Baytie17
33
To _________ _.-_.i know you probably won't see this / but i just wanted to say / thank you.
@finch_1113
32
Out SickI miss you, / and I hope / for a rapid
@bdlukey12
31
My EchoesIf I am to be forgotten while my feet still touch this earth / It doesn't really matter anymore I know now what the time was worth. / If I am to be erased, a fading memory to someone who's evolved
@Kalliopie10
31
RemnantRespect for tension, / An elastic band not to mention, / Within a snap there is no expansion,
@Hazel_Dusk16
31
What RemainsNot the voice— / though I still hear it / in the way wind moves through curtains
@shoaib00587
27
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