Poetry competition CLOSED 23rd August 2021 2:13pm
WINNER
Wafflenose (Ellie)
Wafflenose (Ellie)
New Member of the Month ~ August 2021
Poetry Contest Description
New Member of the Month Feature!
Welcome to "New Member of the Month"!
You have 3 weeks to nominate Your favorite poems from a NEW DUP poet - someone who has been a member for no more than six months.
To locate New Members simply click on 'Poems' > *Latest Poems > Sort Poems > New Members!
Please note the following guidelines when making nominations:
1. Self nominations are not accepted. The great majority of the competitions here are about spotlighting one's own work on a particular topic or theme. This is a chance to nominate that poem that you wish you had written but some other great talent here beat you to it.
2. Until this comp is established, there is no limit to nominations; however, you can't nominate more than one poem per individual new member. *****
3. No DUPLICATES. If someone nominates the same poem the entry will be deleted. If you like it that much wait and vote for it!
4. Any genre except erotica or pornography. This is a Facebook feature and we must adhere to their guidelines.
5. Any member who is banned or disables their account PRIOR to the win will be automatically disqualified.
6. One win per member per calendar year ( 12 months ).
7. All nominators should notify their nominees of nominations.
8. PLEASE DON’T NOMINATE RECENT WINNERS ( see list below )
Any nominated member who wishes to opt out of the competition may do so by messaging me. I will contact the person who nominated you and request an alternate nomination.
Nomination Duration is 3 weeks followed by a week of site voting!
Current Winners:
November 2019: LunaGreyhawk
December 2019: Rachel_Lauren
January 2020: cobralips (Abbey)
February 2020: timkit (Tim Kitchen)
March 2020: Pete82
April 2020: ravisa
May 2020 Lazy_Dead (.Julia.)
June 2020 RiAN
July 2020: syandeneJahia (sy4ndene44)
August 2020: plexus
September 2020: LtDansLegs
October 2020: Bluevelvete
November 2020: Vermillion_Apples (Jacob W)
December 2020: Salient_Swan
January 2021: Andres_Castro
February 2021: _Skylark_
March 2021: Braver_Than_A_Noun (Andie...)
April 2021: Poetic_Quill (Chris P. Bacon)
May 2021: Keushwalker
June 2021: PGLithag
July 2021: Keilani
Shades of Grey
When I was young,
I believed
That everything was right or wrong;
Good and bad; Yes or no;
Black or white.
It was easy to think that way.
How clever I thought I was
To be so enlightened and decisive,
To have an opinion on everything,
And to think that I was right.
When I grew older,
I realised
That sometimes there's no right or wrong.
That some situations have no good outcome
Or happy ending.
That the answer can be both yes and no,
That manifold factors must be considered, and
That some questions have no answers.
I don't feel quite so clever any more
But have perhaps grown wiser
Since I realised that life
Operates in shades of grey.
Written by Wafflenose
(Ellie)
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The Dreamer Awakens
And i had a dream,
i dreamt that i was but a drop in an ocean,
and the ocean was moving with me.
But i awoke to find that it was i moving
with the ocean.
i dreamt that i was but a drop in an ocean,
and the ocean was moving with me.
But i awoke to find that it was i moving
with the ocean.
Written by Gigashdaow
(J C Morgan)
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Black Woman
Black woman,
Your brown skin, effortlessly soaking up the sun's radiance and projecting it outward.
Your hands, gifted with the power to make anything grow.
Your hair, a vast garden of coils and curls sprouting from kinked roots.
Your voice, powerful enough to silence a room and incite riots in the face of injustice.
Your feet, never tiring from walking the path to break down barriers.
Your mind, never faltering as you constantly fight to break generational curses of trauma and abuse.
Your heart, unconditionally loving those that would never think to show you the same kindness.
Your soul, a bright light casting out all of the darkness there is.
You are a presence unlike any other.
Black woman,
Never change.
Your brown skin, effortlessly soaking up the sun's radiance and projecting it outward.
Your hands, gifted with the power to make anything grow.
Your hair, a vast garden of coils and curls sprouting from kinked roots.
Your voice, powerful enough to silence a room and incite riots in the face of injustice.
Your feet, never tiring from walking the path to break down barriers.
Your mind, never faltering as you constantly fight to break generational curses of trauma and abuse.
Your heart, unconditionally loving those that would never think to show you the same kindness.
Your soul, a bright light casting out all of the darkness there is.
You are a presence unlike any other.
Black woman,
Never change.
Written by a_piscean_dream
(Tierra)
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