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Weekly Poetry Contest

In the list below you will find all of the poems competing
to become our weekly winner.

: Help Choose This Weeks Winner!; Each winner will be the featured poet for the week and be showcased throughout the community. This is a great way to have your poetry read by thousands of other poets. To learn more about the contest, click here to read our contest FAQ.; Please read and rate poems from the list below to see who will be crowned Original Poetry's Weekly Winner!

Gathering Results

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

Congratulations!

HIP13044b

Winner of last week's Original Poetry Contest

— Winning Poem —

You

I heard your silent scream floating across the invisible waves, leaving me stranded on the sunken island in the palm of your hand. A song is sung by a driving lust set to the beat of this pounding heart. The unmistakable touch of your thoughts caresses my mind with their sacred dance. The light of the land runs to hide in the shadows, the blinding glare of the darkness fills my sight. My han …

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Previous Contest Winners

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Read You

Poet: HIP13044b

Contest Date: 12/20/2010 - 12/27/2010

Read Silence

Poet: Hampton

Contest Date: 12/13/2010 - 12/20/2010

Read Sedated Heart

Poet: ApaqRasgirl

Contest Date: 11/29/2010 - 12/06/2010

Read The First Moon of Elatia

Poet: HarverTomsson

Contest Date: 11/22/2010 - 11/29/2010

Read And I Ask... What Does It Matter?

Poet: SuperChick62

Contest Date: 11/15/2010 - 11/22/2010

Read Walt Whitman, I Want To Grow Your Beard

Poet: dahlusion

Contest Date: 11/08/2010 - 11/15/2010

Read "You are a Perversion to God"...

Poet: ImStillHere

Contest Date: 10/18/2010 - 10/25/2010

Read What Is A True Friend

Poet: sunshine33710

Contest Date: 10/11/2010 - 10/18/2010

Read The Day John Lennon Died

Poet: kmooney

Contest Date: 10/04/2010 - 10/11/2010

Read immortal kiss

Poet: Dano

Contest Date: 9/06/2010 - 9/13/2010

Read The Eternal Chess Game

Poet: angel33614

Contest Date: 8/23/2010 - 8/30/2010

Read Butterfly Effect

Poet: castlemist

Contest Date: 8/02/2010 - 8/09/2010

Read Dreams to Contemplate

Poet: ApaqRasgirl

Contest Date: 7/25/2010 - 8/01/2010

Read Last summer

Poet: stellar

Contest Date: 6/21/2010 - 6/28/2010

Read ON PREASTERS LAKE

Poet: Qualin

Contest Date: 6/07/2010 - 6/14/2010

Read Winter Bides Her Time

Poet: simoneaugustus

Contest Date: 5/17/2010 - 5/24/2010

Read The Tragic Tale of Alejandro Vega

Poet: SuSpence

Contest Date: 5/10/2010 - 5/17/2010

Read Rattling the Chains

Poet: WordSlinger

Contest Date: 4/19/2010 - 4/26/2010

Read Locket

Poet: ALPink

Contest Date: 4/12/2010 - 4/19/2010

Read I Await

Poet: Artie

Contest Date: 4/05/2010 - 4/12/2010

Read INTO THEM .. INTO ME .. INTO YOU

Poet: StandingBear

Contest Date: 2/15/2010 - 2/22/2010

Read Words That Bind

Poet: Hampton

Contest Date: 1/25/2010 - 2/01/2010

Read Blue Inca Night (Verse)

Poet: Grito

Contest Date: 12/28/2009 - 1/04/2010

Read ALL GOD'S CHILDREN (A Christmas Song)

Poet: knight4696

Contest Date: 12/21/2009 - 12/28/2009

Read State of Man

Poet: Savant

Contest Date: 12/07/2009 - 12/14/2009

Read "Torn"

Poet: MalikPeterson

Contest Date: 11/30/2009 - 12/07/2009

Read Carry the Flame

Poet: danmartyjake1

Contest Date: 11/23/2009 - 11/30/2009

Read If I Ask The Dead For Memories

Poet: dahlusion

Contest Date: 11/16/2009 - 11/23/2009

Read Daddy, it’s been 18 years

Poet: themommyof2

Contest Date: 11/09/2009 - 11/16/2009

Read Trick or Treat...

Poet: kmooney

Contest Date: 10/26/2009 - 11/02/2009

Read predator

Poet: am2anangel

Contest Date: 9/28/2009 - 10/05/2009

Read Blank Page

Poet: knight4696

Contest Date: 9/14/2009 - 9/21/2009

Read The Grid of Her Heart

Poet: WordSlinger

Contest Date: 9/07/2009 - 9/14/2009

Read "Scotengire's Missive"

Poet: Stardrift

Contest Date: 7/27/2009 - 8/03/2009

Read Balance

Poet: GentleT

Contest Date: 7/20/2009 - 7/27/2009

Read Nature's Voice

Poet: UnworthyFather

Contest Date: 7/13/2009 - 7/20/2009

Read Fairies

Poet: dragonfly1023

Contest Date: 7/06/2009 - 7/13/2009

Read Goodbye

Poet: poetrygal45

Contest Date: 6/22/2009 - 6/29/2009

Read Politicians

Poet: Hampton

Contest Date: 6/15/2009 - 6/22/2009

Read The Devil

Poet: ALPink

Contest Date: 6/08/2009 - 6/15/2009

Read unconquered

Poet: tenderpoison

Contest Date: 5/18/2009 - 5/25/2009

Read YELLOW DAWN

Poet: StandingBear

Contest Date: 5/11/2009 - 5/18/2009

Read Hypnotized by Darkness

Poet: beautifuldeath

Contest Date: 4/27/2009 - 5/04/2009

Read Tears To Spare

Poet: cherise1

Contest Date: 4/20/2009 - 4/27/2009

Read My Last Day

Poet: lonewolf

Contest Date: 4/13/2009 - 4/20/2009

Read from the ground up

Poet: dangedmanjr

Contest Date: 4/06/2009 - 4/13/2009

Read Eternal Embrace

Poet: mgolda22

Contest Date: 3/16/2009 - 3/23/2009

Read Your Friendship

Poet: Footprints2002

Contest Date: 3/09/2009 - 3/16/2009

Read Surrounded By Flowers

Poet: fenixmind

Contest Date: 2/16/2009 - 2/23/2009

Read Then The Tumblers Rust

Poet: dahlusion

Contest Date: 2/02/2009 - 2/09/2009

Read Divine Intervention

Poet: NayInLove

Contest Date: 1/26/2009 - 2/02/2009

Read Night after Gerry died

Poet: errizy

Contest Date: 1/19/2009 - 1/26/2009

Read Emotional Storm

Poet: Plot121

Contest Date: 1/12/2009 - 1/19/2009

Read "All About Me"

Poet: Mitzi

Contest Date: 1/05/2009 - 1/12/2009

Read my wife

Poet: drewking

Contest Date: 12/22/2008 - 12/29/2008

Read To Each His Own

Poet: 1LostGypsy

Contest Date: 12/15/2008 - 12/22/2008

Read Thank you Dad

Poet: dmc1259

Contest Date: 12/08/2008 - 12/15/2008

Read Pieces Of Diety

Poet: JEAGLEFEATHER

Contest Date: 12/01/2008 - 12/08/2008

Read where do I go

Poet: Phoenix9

Contest Date: 11/17/2008 - 11/24/2008

Read My Angel

Poet: Onelove2807

Contest Date: 11/10/2008 - 11/17/2008

Read DREAMS

Poet: PhantomPoet

Contest Date: 10/27/2008 - 11/03/2008

Read The Sun Rises

Poet: lesabug

Contest Date: 5/25/0200 - 6/01/0200

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Weekly Poetry Contest

In the list below you will find all of the poems competing to become our weekly winner.

Gathering Results

Congratulations!

HIP13044b

— Winning Poem —

You

Previous Contest Winners

Latest Forum Post

In the list below you will find all of the poems competing
to become our weekly winner.