Poetry competition CLOSED 22nd March 2022 5:12pm
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Anonymous
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Poem of the Month - March 2022

LunaGreyhawk
Dangerous Mind
United States 19awards
Joined 8th July 2019
Forum Posts: 923

Poetry Contest

Three weeks to nominate your favorite poems!
You have THREE weeks to nominate no more than THREE of your favorite poems from another DUP poet!

Please note the following guidelines when making nominations:
The voting for this competition is anonymous; therefore,spoken word nominations will be disqualified. You may nominate Spoken Word pieces in the competition below.

Spoken Word of the Month Comp (every other month) is here:

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New Member ( six ( 6 ) months or less ) of the Month comp is here:

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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. You may nominate only THREE poems from THREE different DU members.

3. No DUPLICATE NOMINATIONS. If you nominate a poem that has already been nominated you will be asked to replace the nomination.

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 winning will be automatically disqualified.

6. One win per member per calendar year, beginning with the month they win.

7. Please notify your nominee they have been nominated.

Nomination Duration is three weeks followed by a week of site voting!

Current Poem of the Month Hall of Famers:

2022:
January - Luna Greyhawk
February - AspergerPoet
March - Relic-54

2021:
January - brokentitanium (k.)
February - SatinUgal
March - X
April - RiAN
May - DaisyGrace
June - Bluevelvete
July - Jemac
August -  Northern_Soul (-Missy-)
September - Joshsam
October - cold_fusion
November - Buddhakitty
December - Particles_of_HerII

2020
January-  NEW BEGINNINGS
February - EDIBLE WORDS
March - MADAME LAVENDER
APRIL - MONKEYMAN
MAY - TIMAGINATION543
JUNE - LEPPEROCHAN (Craic-Dealer)
JULY - STRANGEWAYS_ROB  
August - Daniel Christensen
September - Aspergerpoet
October - Lunagreyhawk
November - Kristinax
December - Ahavati

2019
January - DANIELCHRISTENSEN
February - SOPHIE_ERICSON
March - AUDIOHARLEEA
April - FROM THE ASH
May - MISS_SUB
June - NAAJIR
July - LAYLA
August, 2019 - AHAVATI
September - MISS_SUB
October - HOWLING_WHELMS
November - JOHNNY BLAZE
December - RACHEL_LAUREN

2018
January - LADY_OF_THE_QUILL
February - LEPPEROCHAN Craic in a Box
March - TINABUBUYA (Tee Mali)
April - CROWFLY
May - ATOMIKBOMB
June - MISS_SUB (Missy)
July - MEADOWSWEET
August - LAYLA
September - COLD FUSION
October  - TODSKI28
November - TheMUSE22
December - BENDER

2017
January - VEE
February - CRIMSIN
March  - ONEFIFTYSIX
April - DANIEL CHRISTENSEN
May - ALEXANDER CASE
June - AEMelia564
July - THE_SILLY_SIBYL (Jack Thomas Heslop)
August - QUIETUSQUILL
September - _SHADOE_
October - POETSREVENGE
November - NAAJIR
December - POETSPEAK

2016
November  - JOHN FEDDELER
December - AHAVATI

rubyredheart
Fire of Insight
United States 2awards
Joined 8th Sep 2021
Forum Posts: 14

unique

 
I wonder at my passion
it burns in my chest
it teaches me about myself
a lot of times to my chagrin

someone told me if it doesn't hurt it isn't good

so I take breath and release my thoughts back to the universe
to see if I passed the test
it plays on my mind late at night, my mistakes
but I do my best with what I've been given

I am gentle, I am dark
depending on the light or shadow, I am beautiful

I need within my soul
to understand the beauty of her...pneuma
she reflects all facets of being
within midnight's glare still, found radiant

we shine people did you know?

we are here gathering knowledge

I'm an old soul
I didn't come this time for money or gold
I came for love and honesty
no matter the bitter truth

the universe feels your ache
while we stretch, blink, and evolve in understanding
be kind where you can, be defiant too
follow your moral core

there is only one you




Written by crimsin (Unveiling)
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RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1257

Lazeray

Melted into a Lazeray  
Crashing into time  
As a millisecond ride  
Racing lanes inside my mind  

Anti-gravity hair radiation  
Beaming in all directions  
Recalling recollections  
Brain of mirrored sections  
 
Polarized blinging light    
Amplified infrared eyes  
Speeding through pathways  
Following the wavelengths  
 
Guiding invisible ultraviolet  
Speeding up alpha and theta waves  
Avoiding the anxious dead cryolite  
Within the fever of my troubled mind  
 
All the time saved  
by a Lazeray
Written by Adelphina
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cold_fusion
Tyrant of Words
Palestine 20awards
Joined 14th June 2017
Forum Posts: 5404

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cold_fusion
Tyrant of Words
Palestine 20awards
Joined 14th June 2017
Forum Posts: 5404

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cold_fusion
Tyrant of Words
Palestine 20awards
Joined 14th June 2017
Forum Posts: 5404

he, too, was some mother’s son

 


one of the bombs hit a terraced house in woolwich and killed a mother and child and the pilot of the plane never knew
 
  what
    he’d
 done









 
Written by dartford (Paul S...)
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sierraD61
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 13th Mar 2022
Forum Posts: 10

crimsin
Unveiling
Tyrant of Words
United States 124awards
Joined 25th Jan 2011
Forum Posts: 2657

Weak4hissmile
the.LittlestSP-EXPO
Lost Thinker
Canada
Joined 14th Feb 2022
Forum Posts: 18

R u speaking  to me ?

Phantom2426
Francisco J Vera
Tyrant of Words
United States 21awards
Joined 25th Jan 2020
Forum Posts: 5295

Time

 
“Time”
 
I looked on you as though you were a wishing star
As you sat beside him in the front seat of your car.
The look you gave was more than words could say
And you looked again as he drove you away.
I’m sorry I didn’t have the courage to say what I longed to say.
I feel like time is moving fast, and all we do is delay.
 
Sweet, orphaned child who shall never be ours,
Water this grave’s wilting, white flowers.
Lover dear, you are beautifully in my fortune
I never could quite treat you like an option.
And I felt the regret, the pain of you alone
I feel that ache as though it were my own.
 
And I grasp your shadow as it is lengthening
In the first twilight of the spring.
I am afraid of longing for that caress
As with grace we share our loneliness.
I cannot walk this path without your hand
Without you to look into my eyes, and understand
That my will is thine, and my heartbeat is a song
That kisses your name for as short a time as life is long.
 
Time is turning these pages anew,
And I pray the next I write for you
Will not be a pean of the past—
But that shall color the book’s last
Line with what was a life well spent,
Oh! God. Where the time went
I have not a clue—but still I cannot say
What I long to say,  
And time is fast,  
And all we do is delay.  
 
© 2022 Marten Hoyle
Written by MartenHoyle (Vate C. Carmen)
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Phantom2426
Francisco J Vera
Tyrant of Words
United States 21awards
Joined 25th Jan 2020
Forum Posts: 5295

Being Cagey!

It has been said
That if you truly
Love someone
You will help them
Open up their wings
And set them free
(As long as they
Pay their share
Of the rent
Whilst on their
Sojourn!)
And to think
I wasted
All that money
On a cage!

by Jemia
Written by missjem56 (Jemia de Blondeville)
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Phantom2426
Francisco J Vera
Tyrant of Words
United States 21awards
Joined 25th Jan 2020
Forum Posts: 5295

Related submission no longer exists.

RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1257

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The winner of this competition and any runners up were decided by public vote.

Thank you to the following members for voting:

Bluevelvete, LtDansLegs, AspergerPoet56, Northern_Soul, ReggiePoet, RevolutionAL, Phantom2426, lepperochan, MadameLavender, Kinkpoet, Tallen, Adelphina, Rianne, LadyRain, Marks, rubyredheart

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