Winners Of Poetry Contests

  • My Heritage (21) 5 WIN

    by Paul Gondwe

    My black skin has people staring
    in awe...

  • A Thousand Prayers (8) 3 WIN

    by The Princess

    ''It's not the ghosts of the dead that hunt places...

  • Winds
    chiming...

  • For the yawning dim night that wraps itself around...
    if you believe that I'm a new moon glowing through...

  • His Portrait (19) 2 WIN

    by Xanthe

    It was over a decade ago when I left my childhood
    beneath quilts devoid of your once familiar...

  • Ships Sink (14) 6 WIN

    by Melpomene

    As a child I was fascinated by your back,
    I saw your freckles as docks and my crayons...

  • My little girl (12) 4 WIN

    by Yakari Gabriel

    I've been studying you,
    little girl...

  • Ravenousness (20) 4 WIN

    by Jenni

    Whenever you nestle up against
    your coffee cup and undress me...

  • Circadian (17) 9 WIN

    by Xanthe

    Before the dawn, I always wake up to find
    last night's dreams sleeping beneath my pillow...

  • Parched (5) 3 WIN

    by Melissa

    The sun's rays are panting
    like dry tongues...

  • No Matter (12) 4 WIN

    by Poet on the Piano

    No matter how submissive the night is,
    I will originate a succession...

  • Crabs (23) 12 WIN

    by silvershoes

    It was a decade ago at the bay of youth.
    We ventured to salty waters on stony shores...