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Poetry.com Contest Summary
The final results for the upcoming May 2024 contest will be announced here, including the winners for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place along with all nominated poems.
Winners By popular vote
500
1st Place
To be announced...
300
2nd Place
To be announced...
200
3rd Place
To be announced...
Nominees By random order
never be C.F | Lost My Way L.M.W | George Floyd C.T.P |
Don't leave me Debt R | Losing My Son K.E | Just a girl E.L |
Passing Moments D.R.S | Seems Like Only Yesterday C.R | In My Life M.T |
The Challenge T.S | In the Quiet I Sit, but it's So Loud T.J | Freedom M.D |
Black Ice S.A | First Love M.W | Innocent Suffer M.F |
Spread All the Love You’re Capable Of J.P | My Nan D.R | At Home With My Eyes Closed H.M |
Conversations With Luna A.L.L | Deliverance, finding love in one’s old age S.M.B | Waiting For The Statues To Move W |
Why I love Billie E.E | Competition T.S | Found K.E |
The Poet S.D | Alexa Snooze E.T | DIAMONDS D.E.M |
Introduction M.R | Today B.L | Muffled Cries E.A.O.M |
Know Thy Worth K.F.(.F | Mom B.B | Whispers of hope amidst oppressive darkness A.N |
Stand Against the Wind P.E.W | Depths of despair T.A.N | I don’t know anyone who doesn’t need anything L.A.P |
As He walks through Sea Pines B.C | My Best Poem B.P.P | Time Machine J.A.L |
Seasons Speaking G.C | Agnosticism S.W | Forge Ahead R.W |
The Essence Of Love T.L.P | Tikkun Olam (Repair the World) A.C | Careless Whisper D.Y |
Cat and Dog J.M.H | Crying Child by Prithvi Datta [from the UK] P.D | Ballad of the dead mind poet B |
Play B.K | Trigger Warning L | A Father’s Day Poem J.W.M |
Healing R | Drunk Thoughts S.P | The Fundamental Pride Flag J.H |
Wishful thinking R.C | A Silent Litany S.E | My Loneliness G.B |
Mr. Moon J.E | I suck at poems F | Spanish Bluebells K.H |
Adult on the Monkey Bar (5 syllable meter) C.W | Guiding Wings A.E | Burying Bones G.Z |
Good Morning Sunshine L.H | Lapis l’azzuri B.R | Verse City D.P |
Already Gone K.K | Tomorrow M.A.K | The Kids Have Questions F.G |
The whispering of the leaves. A.J.C | A Love Story or The End of the World A.E | Crash and Burnout S.M |
Heart Beat P.S | Love Encounters Fear A.K | My Children T.R.T |
The Games People Play S.E | Just Another Day T.J | To Honor Us G.B |
Daisy G.O | Birth Mother S.L.R | Who Knew L.H |
The Dopeness Q.S | Raindrops M.P | March 11, 2019 J.R |
Afraid of the dark A.O | I'm ready to go V.P | Sons of Insobriety S.D |
Proud Supporter C.R.B.L | Deep Relationships -by Dorothy Rose Forgione D.R.F | One world H.H |
The body E.N | The Soldier A.C | "Who He Miss" M.L |
The Preacher I.K | Untold Love N.G | Pink Earrings B.L |
The rose F.F | The Gentle Light S.M | Suppose K.M |
From The Window A.C.V | The lonely man of 65. A.J.C | My Love by Joseph Boayue (Joseph.boayue@potomac.edu) J.B |
Know That I Too T | Guadalupe F.X.H.I | Yellow Rose H |
Begs of Forgiveness K.F | The Poet and the Painter C.M | Gaza, From Far Away C.A.E |
A Quick Game J.R | No Words S.E | Dream On T.S |
Buddhist Tendencies J.S | When I leave The Darkness R.R | The Golden Galley G.K |
Oh would that I.... J.P | A Talk With My Father Above L.H | Death L.R |
Full Moon Afterglow T.M | Death L.R | Shame is a word T.M.B |
Fragmented P.K.M | Happiness S.E | The Ultimate Religion? N.S |
Ode to Parthenon F.F | Just one A.J | Into Me You See..Intimacy C |
Alive on This Earth D.H | Hazel A.L.M.C.A | He is good L.M.S |
Auspice E.S | Blind Hope E.E | Shades Of Becoming A.E |
My Final Bow L.K.L | Loving Mothers M.M | Temptations of thought F.X.H.I |
Illumination All May Seek J.W.G | Miracle of Malachy, my spirit animal S.M.B | Dripping Red D.C |
water & stones P.M | PANDORA'S BOX L.A.L | Wreckless S.B |
Divine Rising A.E |
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