Rankings / Be published in a book of poetry

Items added to this "Rating Criterion":

Poetry / Marriage in Illinois

Created by gmemi about 1 year ago

Tanner says he’ll marry Alana
In every which way
They’re like mittens
Stitched from the same



Poetry / Winter is at hand

Created by Kathymel about 1 year ago

When bracken stains the hillside with dark rust
And larches paint the lanes with amber stripes
And wind to take



Poetry / The Mother

Created by Lilith_Snow over 3 years ago

Gazing at the glowing disc in the sky,

the full moon calls to me.

Dancing, twirling,



Poetry / Flame and the Moth

Created by Jimmel104 over 2 years ago

He watched her as she grew.
Always marveling at her hidden beauty.
She threw herself into life unlike any aroun



Poetry / Flame and the Moth

Created by Jimmel104 about 1 year ago

Powdery wings unfold as she emerges

The beauty of her, soft colors on a gossamer pallet, stretching into adulth



Poetry / Proverbial Cries

Created by jokaking about 1 year ago

 




 




Let him tempt the sentimen



Haiku/Senryu / The Fledgling

Created by kjoey35 about 1 year ago

my flight was captured
only left with nostalgia
my poor wings now clipped



Poetry / An Ocean's Account of Events

Created by ashupe about 1 year ago

An Ocean’s Account Of Events

I’ve Fallen.
Fallen deep off the mast.
I can feel each s



Poetry / Asshole just doesnt seem to cover it

Created by imnoromeo about 1 year ago

I love what no one else could
for she hides with in a hood
she is hiding from the cold
at least that is w



Poetry / Red and Gold

Created by crimsonarchon about 1 year ago

Red and gold
now break the mold and surpass this
pinnacle of artifice
for the blood imparts the highest a



Poetry / Dialogue

Created by squarehopper over 2 years ago

Hijo… en the thirteen years I been casado,
I get ocho niňos y niňas.
una with cerebral palsy, que Dios la



Short Story / Reality Sets In: six-word memoir contest

Created by akelly10 about 1 year ago

Dreams of “next Hemingway” rudely awakened.



Poetry / Blue Chaos

Created by crimsonarchon about 1 year ago

blue chaos riots on black field
what does our fascination yield
a sign upon a battlefield
a fate in silen



Poetry / Don't Come Crying To Me

Created by Wytchcat about 1 year ago

Little miss tough girl
Crying on the swings.
Was that the day you first knew…

You wouldn̵



Poetry / Nature's Ghosts

Created by Ravenn over 2 years ago

the last errant leaf clings to a branch    
of an old maple tree, its small stem   



Poetry / You see me

Created by passionately2007 about 1 year ago

Deep in my despair
I corner myself through his stare
A most beautiful human being with flaws and all
A be



Limericks / A Limerick and a Haiku Face Off... Part 3

Created by ScottBJohnson over 2 years ago

The last time, mister sneaky Haiku
Slipped in his friend: “Meta-haiku”.
Haiku cheated: That’s lame.




Poetry / The Girl with the Long Auburn Hair

Created by Alex_Bruinekool 2 months ago

The self-destructive beauty

With the long auburn hair,

Lies so luxuriously,

And entirel



Poetry / Why I Believe in God

Created by Pedroemose about 1 year ago

“Do you believe in God?” she said
looking at me in the eyes
with her bloodshot soul
cracked d



Poetry / Patience

Created by LAluver4ever about 1 year ago

What was it like
to have to fight
such a powerful disease?

To be on the brink,
to swim or