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