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Neopoet Weekly 07/14/24 to 07/20/24 Winner

Submitted by neopoet contests on Sat, 2024-07-20 21:18

This week’s winner is Shelby Pryor with the following poem

Higher and Higher

I've been on my back lately
I haven't tried getting up
I've embraced the tears
But enough is enough

I won't just get up now
I'll rise like a Phoenix
Shaking the ashes off
The life that I'll fix

I will not be passive
It is time to ravage
The fear inside me
I'll attack like a savage

Wipe the blood from my lip
Dust the dirt off my hands
For victory belongs to the one
Who runs, not who stands

Fire comsumes my heart
Burning up all the pain
You might have crushed me
But it was not in vain

What destroys the others
Will not mar my skin
The scars are finally fading
My thread no longer thin

So watch my eyes ignite
Watch my steps shift
I'll treat my life not as
As a curse but a gift

I am done holding back
Living like a caged-up lion
I will keep getting up
When it feels like I'm dyin'

So give me back the pen
Only I can write my story
Every drop of blood spilled
Is another step towards glory

You can deliver a steep uppercut
But I'm a last round fighter
Even with you pushing me down
I keep flying Higher and Higher

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2024 1st Half Of The Yearly Contest

Submitted by neopoet contests on Mon, 2024-07-15 22:59

The Winner of the 2024 1st Half of The Yearly Contest  is MermaidMaster  with the following poem

 

 

In Another Life I Live Bravely

Submitted by MermaidMaster

I want to live in the tallest apartment in New
York City, and peer my gaping eyes through
my window to see only dancing beetles below.

I will wear expensive feathers and furs, I’ll
dance with strangers, and I’ll party for a while
with headliners after sold-out shows.

I’ll walk the streets wearing only perfume and
watch men stand agape as I strut past, too awed
at my nakedness proud and aglow.

I’ll rebel and I’ll wail and I’ll cry out,
“Change will come! Justice will prevail!”
And I won’t shut up until Change comes and goes.

I’ll play poker with CEO’s, and kiss strange men in taxis,
and spin through the nights like a globe on its axis;
to live with honeyed hi’s! And never with lows.

I’ll do pilates and yoga, drink only red wine,
and I won’t dwell on the men who used to be mine.
I’ll live fast and so furiously young,
and I’ll die gentle, soft and divine.

 

 

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Neopoet Weekly 07/7/24 to 07/13/24 Winner!

Submitted by neopoet contests on Sat, 2024-07-13 22:18

This week’s winner is hippiemoon with the following poem

 

Coal Mine Canary

Submitted by hippiemoon

Do you know about coal mine canaries?
They used to take caged birds down into the coal mines,
And when they would die the workers would know to leave too.

Let me be a canary in your chest.
Let me live inside your rib cage,
Feel your heart beat for me,
Watch your blood flow through your veins.

Keep me safe next to your heart
And I’ll keep you safe from all that’s bad.

Use me as your compass,
I’ll tell you to run when things get hard.

Let me be your coal mine canary.
Let me sacrifice myself to save you from the inevitable.

 

 

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Neopoet Weekly 06/30/24 to 07/06/24 Contest Winner!

Submitted by neopoet contests on Sat, 2024-07-06 22:00

This week’s winner is Candlewitch with the following poem

 

                                                                                       Wood-smoke

Submitted by Candlewitch

We mellowed...
reclining by the camp fire
after a day of splashing,
swimming, and water games.

I shivered as
evening came in to surround us
with a cooling breeze.
Your fisherman knit sweater
you placed about my shoulders,
staved off a slight chill.

Your glittering orbs
held me intoxicated.
As I felt the last of
the sun's rays
leach out of the sand

Quietly exchanging daydreams,
I noticed, wood-smoke, was
the color of your smiling eyes!

 

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No One No Thing

Submitted by Ruby Lord on Wed, 2024-07-17 11:39

When there’s no one there in the morning,
And no lips to kiss last at night.
When each day is old journey dawning,
Still darkness painful to sight.

With each moment spent in sadness,
And joy can no longer be heard.
When parting reaches madness,
And abandon leaves your eyes blurred.

When time trails slowly behind you,
And solitude gifts you deep dread.
And dreams or memories seep through,
To tie tangled thoughts in silk thread.

A holy Plea

Submitted by Apostolos "Paul... on Tue, 2024-07-16 20:33

Lord,
Words seem
To have
Evacuated

Emotions
Kidnapped my,
Smile
No ransom note
Just, a big
I told you so

They say,
Talking to you
Will save my soul
From hitting
The concrete

I was informed
That you
Know what
Invades my mind

Right now,
My faith
Is taking jabs
To the stomach

Somehow it
Endures,
It never
Hits the
Snooze button

No, it holds me
As if it was
Following orders
From you

SORCERY.

Submitted by Alex Tanner on Tue, 2024-07-16 18:18

I should be working now and yet,
My mind goes back to nights of yore;
My fingers freeze against the keys
For all I see or think is her.

She captivates me with her charms,
Seduces me with sensuous moves.
Entices, teases draws me in,
A spider in her web of sin.

And though my heart belongs to her.
And though my soul is not my own
I know,deep deep within that I
Must use strange powers to bring her near.

So many years since I have done
That which I plan now.

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Lost Wallet

Submitted by Hon on Tue, 2024-07-16 18:16

Oh, to my lost wallet,
Where are you at?
I am lost without you
your return is a request
In the searching of lost item
that I call 9-11 for a rescue
I am guilty of abandoning you
to let you out of my sight
for my wrongdoing
Please do not hold your grudge
against me
for your forgiveness is a MUST
come back to me in my plead
you are my precious gift
that is close to my heart to
hold all my accessories of
money in a safety spot
to always be careful
As day turns night

Wandering Wallet

Submitted by Candlewitch on Tue, 2024-07-16 14:53

One fine bright day at the Summer fair
enjoying the sweetness of the moment,
floating along, without a worry or care!

It fell from his back hip pocket,
as he walked on ever eager
delivering to her hands a gold locket,

Shape chosen, the ever lovely heart,
opening to view their smiling likeness
Whose vows would never part.

She would ever wear, resting on her chest,
a symbol of their love, shining like a light
to each other pledged, forsaking all the rest.

Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer

Submitted by Jane A. Rug on Tue, 2024-07-16 13:16

sizzles Delaware Valley today July 16th, 2024

Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Say my name

Submitted by kowque on Tue, 2024-07-16 09:51

Show me
You see me

We are the same

Building The State

Submitted by Mr joghe on Tue, 2024-07-16 06:15

Building the State

I’ve done my part in building the state
Before I say a leave-taking
Even nobody ventures to say a word
I have known;
That I'm not a venture-someness
I gave people a venture capital to break their yokes.
This a short speech full of throw away lines
A chance to thumb my nose at the citizens
When I had to strain to reach the peak
And I have never been joking since all my life;
Read me even my handwriting straggled over the pages.

Poetry, Unpublished

Submitted by Lavender on Mon, 2024-07-15 23:36

She created it to shake snow
off trembling mountain tops,
bring light to lost souls in the void of purgatory.

It was hoped to
open blind eyes,
minds,
hearts,
yield intersession and meditation
and pass along peace wrapped in
bundles of unconditional love

like an aid convoy, or perhaps,
a rainbow.

Yes, a rainbow

spanned over miles and kilometers
of this poetry famished world.

It was composed, then perfectly polished.

Talking to the moon

Submitted by Words Ablaze on Mon, 2024-07-15 16:55

Only the moon can bear witness
To promises whispered in darkness
Only the moon could speak of our time
Of almost bliss and breathless kisses
Out there underneath the black dome

While the stars blinked and blushed,
Among the shadows solemnly hushed,
We swayed and swayed as the trees
Do with the breeze...
We swayed, we swayed,
With a "moon and tide" ease.

How quickly it all withers away
A death so diligent as that of a rose
Nothing good can ever stay
And that is how it all goes.

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