Poetry competition CLOSED 22nd May 2021 7:05pm
WINNER
DaisyGrace
DaisyGrace
Poem of the Month - MAY
Poetry Contest Description
Poem of the Month May
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 is here:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11909/
New Member ( six ( 6 ) months of less ) of the Month comp is here:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11907/
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:
2021:
January - brokentitanium (k.)
February - SatinUgal
March - X
April - RIAN
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
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 is here:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11909/
New Member ( six ( 6 ) months of less ) of the Month comp is here:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11907/
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:
2021:
January - brokentitanium (k.)
February - SatinUgal
March - X
April - RIAN
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
Anonymous
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Refuge For Me
fear hiding behind my smile
for at least half a century
it reveals no sadness or sorrow
self image taunted by humiliating
words exhausting anything positive
mentally weak fighting to luv life
making useless wishes blowing out
birthday candles secretly wishing
to not celebrate another year
soft warm rain drops from above
cleansing dark secrets within me
a refuge for my tears and soul
Copyright © 2021 Flowergirl
for at least half a century
it reveals no sadness or sorrow
self image taunted by humiliating
words exhausting anything positive
mentally weak fighting to luv life
making useless wishes blowing out
birthday candles secretly wishing
to not celebrate another year
soft warm rain drops from above
cleansing dark secrets within me
a refuge for my tears and soul
Copyright © 2021 Flowergirl
Written by flowergirl
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Aftershave Kind of Day
First of May
Cleaned up
Actually shaved
Put on the sunny day charm scent
Who can resist
Renewal
A little splash of aura
Walking down the avenue
Smiling
Cleaned up
Actually shaved
Put on the sunny day charm scent
Who can resist
Renewal
A little splash of aura
Walking down the avenue
Smiling
Written by roadNoise
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The Sum of All
There is in you an understanding
I alone have discovered
And this not withstanding
What distances have colored
For I am not close to you
I mean, as close as I long to be
That your breathing be the breath I drew
Tinged with memories of ethreal sea
For you are neither sun nor stars
But faint moonlight luminosity
Casting frailest shadow of this love ours
That it is real and not mere curiosity
Clouds pass, shadowing the earth
Fresh plowed and longing for the rain
The wind dancing between in mirth
And all, like love, touched in its train
I need not heaven's showers
Just a silvered drop of you
A sea, a world, the sum of all, its power
That the seed of love in my heart grew
There are flowers within your eyes
The world has never seen
Deep shadowed in your heart of hearts they rise
More beautiful than all colors have ever been
I would touch them as the breeze
Caressing every one, your sun
Lost, enchanted, among the fragrant, these
The bloom of love and we as one
I alone have discovered
And this not withstanding
What distances have colored
For I am not close to you
I mean, as close as I long to be
That your breathing be the breath I drew
Tinged with memories of ethreal sea
For you are neither sun nor stars
But faint moonlight luminosity
Casting frailest shadow of this love ours
That it is real and not mere curiosity
Clouds pass, shadowing the earth
Fresh plowed and longing for the rain
The wind dancing between in mirth
And all, like love, touched in its train
I need not heaven's showers
Just a silvered drop of you
A sea, a world, the sum of all, its power
That the seed of love in my heart grew
There are flowers within your eyes
The world has never seen
Deep shadowed in your heart of hearts they rise
More beautiful than all colors have ever been
I would touch them as the breeze
Caressing every one, your sun
Lost, enchanted, among the fragrant, these
The bloom of love and we as one
Written by AverageJoe
(Average Joe. AJ. Joe)
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.......
My Father is in the rain
And bends the legitimate lines of my face into curve and artful thought
Stands behind both pragmatism
and delusion
With nudge or gentle hold
I pray I allow my hips his compass
My footfall to align with his
My insecurities
My fears
My wavering doubts
Plucked and given freely to open palm
The artistry in those lines
The enormity in that hand that spreads eternity into the un fathomable
I breathe there
I smile
And I breathe there
And bends the legitimate lines of my face into curve and artful thought
Stands behind both pragmatism
and delusion
With nudge or gentle hold
I pray I allow my hips his compass
My footfall to align with his
My insecurities
My fears
My wavering doubts
Plucked and given freely to open palm
The artistry in those lines
The enormity in that hand that spreads eternity into the un fathomable
I breathe there
I smile
And I breathe there
Written by Calamityofgin
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Anonymous
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The Color of Someday
It is the color of clothes aghast,
of veiled mothers with frozen mouths
thumping chests with eyes to deaf sky.
A mile away, the angry jew waves
his hand with the flourish of humph,
and children on a beach vanish
Here bullets shred, a father carries
the body of his child in a bag
normally for frozen tenderloin
How many springs of this color still
lie quiet? It blooms, from fathers to sons
to many, the color of reckoning.
of veiled mothers with frozen mouths
thumping chests with eyes to deaf sky.
A mile away, the angry jew waves
his hand with the flourish of humph,
and children on a beach vanish
Here bullets shred, a father carries
the body of his child in a bag
normally for frozen tenderloin
How many springs of this color still
lie quiet? It blooms, from fathers to sons
to many, the color of reckoning.
Written by Alviola
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Between Love and Apathy
you came as you were
then left as you are,
between here nor there
both nearby and far
the in’s and the out’s
of just and unfair,
between you and I
both covered and bare
time and last chances
from cage-locked to flown,
between truth and lies
both stunted and grown
held and rejected
released while yet bound,
between lack and want
both misplaced and found
I came as I was
I’m here as I am
between starved and fed
both lion and lamb
then left as you are,
between here nor there
both nearby and far
the in’s and the out’s
of just and unfair,
between you and I
both covered and bare
time and last chances
from cage-locked to flown,
between truth and lies
both stunted and grown
held and rejected
released while yet bound,
between lack and want
both misplaced and found
I came as I was
I’m here as I am
between starved and fed
both lion and lamb
Written by LunaGreyhawk
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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, PoetSpeak, DaisyGrace, senid, Honoria, Ahavati, APissPoorShaman, VirgiliusMaro, RiAN, Razzerleaf, cold_fusion, runaway-mindtrain, Ljdynamic, Phantom2426, ArtToChokeHearts, LunaGreyhawk, Eerie, Breedlove
Thank you to the following members for voting:
Bluevelvete, PoetSpeak, DaisyGrace, senid, Honoria, Ahavati, APissPoorShaman, VirgiliusMaro, RiAN, Razzerleaf, cold_fusion, runaway-mindtrain, Ljdynamic, Phantom2426, ArtToChokeHearts, LunaGreyhawk, Eerie, Breedlove
