Enjoyable and Realistic Poetry Contest
Mission
Foster poetic ability at the grassroots.
Rules & Information
All of our contests are free to enter. Signup is required to post your work and give star ratings. Poems immediately enter the competition when posted. High standing with ratings and votes does indicate the likelihood of winning, but awards are selected at the sole discretion of the editor. Each poem is eligible to win once per contest for Editor's Choice, Week, Month, and Year. Our highest honor is the Laurel, won by securing an Editor's Choice, combined with another award for Month or Year, and 3.5+ stars over 100+ ratings.
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michelle lachut
Treacherous Butterfly
MARIPOSA TRAICIONERA
she was a CHRYSALIS bursting rockets for exploration
becoming cool, was her high wing's; uppermost discovery
begging speed of winds, quickly, in any direction; journeyous atmosphere
replying; calm?, as only quiet winds, would, entreat, brilliantly
vast rebuking, velvet thin, wide, and armlike, unfurled, into azure hue
the fast flying bruise, butterfly flutter, black jet, against, a sky blue ceiling
Lo! to to errant judgement, Woe! to eyes deceived! Is there guilty relation?
The spectrum of, THE AIR ABOVE!, suspiciously matches, part of her!
for signifigantly stated, almost parellel, colored; black and blue; identified!
as glamorized; hazardous! say danger sign warnings; tasted, found; DEADLY!
psycedelic designing is untrue! merely; a glorious tribute to, destructruction of
soft sweet, grass like, night moths, vulnerably luminous; bat eaten and aware!
that PAINLIKE mark, WAS a painted deterrant; to poisonous consumption
for terribly drawn ends, into beauty made, Praise!; the more deftly manifested!
the truth spoken; she was an airplane womb, a super nova, mother star, to nebulas
looking demented, bomblike, acid rain embodied; uglyfaced for warlife, really;
magic nature, turning into, peaceful worlds full, of bad ass, LOOKING, gentle flowers
so, go hamless, slow, your landings on, and, "TO LOVE!", between, MARIPOSA TRAICIONERA
Lamar Cole
Golden Voiced Nat
Always impeccably dressed.
A song his smooth voice could caress.
A smooth singer from days of old.
The golden voiced Nat King Cole.
When he sang, the ladies swooned.
The stars seemed to shine brighter when he crooned.
A voice so soothing.
Lovers felt as if cloud cruising.
by: Lamar Cole
