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Poetry.com Contest Summary

The final results of the February 2025 contest will be announced here, featuring the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, along with all nominated poems. Stay tuned!

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

A Father’s Masquerade
Nominee #1
Forbidden
Nominee #2
Fear and Rewind
Nominee #3
The Void
Nominee #4
For Three Months I Saw Death Rape My Mother
Nominee #5
The MAGA Anthem
Nominee #6
The rainy day are best
Nominee #7
YOU
Nominee #8
Singing Through The Pain
Nominee #9
And the sinners say amen
Nominee #10
Winter Doldrums And A Wish For Spring
Nominee #11
Would heaven ever accept me?
Nominee #12
The WWaiting Room
Nominee #13
Blocks
Nominee #14
The Thistle
Nominee #15
Heart Failure
Nominee #16
Darkness
Nominee #17
I Know A Place
Nominee #18
Too Sad To Cry
Nominee #19
Gateways of Bahdur
Nominee #20
NAME
Nominee #21
Our Cardboard Box
Nominee #22
OUR LOVE - IN MEMORY OF JOE
Nominee #23
Accelerate
Nominee #24
2025
Nominee #25
Portia's Lover
Nominee #26
IA Poetry/Cursed Verse
Nominee #27
Just Like Her
Nominee #28
Honesty
Nominee #29
The idea of life
Nominee #30
Epitaph
Nominee #31
My Last Breath
Nominee #32
Mr. Winter
Nominee #33
The Blue Gulf
Nominee #34
Posthumous
Nominee #35
Black Star
Nominee #36
A KING'S REGRET
Nominee #37
I'm Outta Here
Nominee #38
Stranger
Nominee #39
Suck It Up
Nominee #40
Silent Chaos
Nominee #41
First Responders
Nominee #42
Not Yet
Nominee #43
Those "Moments"
Nominee #44
Child of the Trees
Nominee #45
SIX FEET TOO LATE
Nominee #46
pluto
Nominee #47
What Whiskey Did
Nominee #48
Matilda and Gilda
Nominee #49
Forbidden
Nominee #50
A Clean Start
Nominee #51
The Day I say, “I do”!
Nominee #52
I'm
Nominee #53
Orchards
Nominee #54
The Void
Nominee #55
Unmoved
Nominee #56
No Winners
Nominee #57
For Celesta
Nominee #58
Snow in Alabama
Nominee #59
Emptied of Dreaming
Nominee #60
Sprinkled Teared Ripped Forked Rhyme - 9 to 3
Nominee #61
Do You Know Death Like I Do?
Nominee #62
Starman
Nominee #63
Nine Notes for My Mother
Nominee #64
If I could only
Nominee #65
(Shadow of Shadows) Still, I Dream, Haiti
Nominee #66
A Vow to Guard
Nominee #67
The Voice Within
Nominee #68
An ode to the path of least resistance
Nominee #69
Fairyland
Nominee #70
Only time Will Tell
Nominee #71
Dinner Plates
Nominee #72
A Morning of Grace
Nominee #73
Sometimes I Feel . . . .
Nominee #74
Creation vs. Evolution
Nominee #75
Yesterday
Nominee #76
To My Mother Who Care.
Nominee #77
Silent Scream: A Teenager's Worst Nightmare
Nominee #78
CANDIED
Nominee #79
Maggie’s Song
Nominee #80
The Invisible Soul
Nominee #81
Leo
Nominee #82
Ode to Donald
Nominee #83
First Blame
Nominee #84
I AM SORRY, I LOVE YOU
Nominee #85
The Sun and the Moon’s First Meeting
Nominee #86
Fear of Living...Fear of Dying
Nominee #87
Tell me something, America
Nominee #88
Love Is In The Air
Nominee #89
The World
Nominee #90
Had I known
Nominee #91
Through the doors of my heart
Nominee #92
My Father’s Toyota Corolla
Nominee #93
Pride & Prejudice
Nominee #94
Baby’s Laughter
Nominee #95
Still Here
Nominee #96
Master Plan
Nominee #97
Bipolar singularity
Nominee #98
WHISPER OF DESIRE
Nominee #99
The Lady Of The City
Nominee #100
Life is not fair
Nominee #101
In the Dark
Nominee #102
Tally Marks
Nominee #103
Little Wonder
Nominee #104
Locked Doors
Nominee #105
Does The Soul Exist in Modern Society
Nominee #106
Twice As Loud.
Nominee #107
Falls the snow
Nominee #108
Alive!...
Nominee #109
Lost Love Letter
Nominee #110
Parking Spaces
Nominee #111
That Time I Cracked-Up
Nominee #112
Replicant
Nominee #113
WORN OUT
Nominee #114
Honestly
Nominee #115
Created of Vision
Nominee #116
The ice cube
Nominee #117
The Weight Of Owed
Nominee #118
Long Road Home
Nominee #119
Dear Mama
Nominee #120
The ship that sailed
Nominee #121
Sea Of Sadness
Nominee #122
For the love of my life
Nominee #123
Inner Child
Nominee #124
Evening Blue…
Nominee #125
Served Cold
Nominee #126
Snowy Woods
Nominee #127
Saloon At The End of The World
Nominee #128
Winter Memories
Nominee #129
The choice
Nominee #130
Scrolls of sorrow
Nominee #131
Lamenting Happiness
Nominee #132
Slender Sliver
Nominee #133
Valentine's Day
Nominee #134
Frosted Spring
Nominee #135
Foolishness
Nominee #136
The Dead Are Coming
Nominee #137
Say No More
Nominee #138
The Language of Lightning Bugs
Nominee #139
2025
Nominee #140
Reality
Nominee #141
THE FOREST OF BOULOGNE BENDS TO QUENCH ITS THIRST ON MY JOURNEY
Nominee #142
HELLO FROM HEAVEN
Nominee #143
Time travel
Nominee #144
Though fourth
Nominee #145
Time
Nominee #146
My Bouquet
Nominee #147
Tyrone the Fly
Nominee #148
Insidious
Nominee #149
Solitaire
Nominee #150

Share your thoughts about the February 2025 Contest with the community:

13 Comments
  • harryhag
    harryhag
    I think the quality of the poems just keep getting better
    LikeReply 216 hours ago
  • neemawambui9
    neemawambui9
    How does the voting work?
    LikeReply 14 days ago
    • mark.e.s
      mark.e.s
      Narrow down the poems to your favorites, then vote for the one you like the most. You can only select one as the one you want to win a place in the contest.
      LikeReply 12 days ago
  • Akinpet23
    Akinpet23
    I hope I win this time.

    The best is voting for me and seeing the bright side of my poems.

    The best wishes for all contestants.

    Few poems to go
    LikeReply 14 days ago
    • ladyygracious
      ladyygracious
      Keep the hope active
      LikeReply 117 hours ago
    • ladyygracious
      ladyygracious
      Don't get WORN OUT for we all do wish same, keep up the hope alive.
      LikeReply 117 hours ago
  • Etamareta
    Etamareta
    You do the vote?
    LikeReply 15 days ago
    • mark.e.s
      mark.e.s
      We vote for the poems; it's not judged by a panel, except by a panel of peers.
      LikeReply2 days ago
  • Prcook1984
    Prcook1984
    I can't open them to read them... New here and still figuring everything out. Thanks!
    LikeReply 17 days ago
  • harryhag
    harryhag
    I noticed that the last poem I entered had 67 views, does that mean that less than 1/2 of the voters read it?
    LikeReply 19 days ago
    • acronimous
      acronimous
      As mentioned before, the view count only includes voters who fully open your poem for reading, not those who see the preview. Most voters read a good portion in the preview box before voting, but those interactions aren’t counted. 
      LikeReply 28 days ago
  • barbaracatania7
    barbaracatania7
    I submitted a poem and paid the $25 fee how come I dont find it Barbara Catania title of poem Our Love - in memory of Joe
    LikeReply 114 days ago
    • acronimous
      acronimous
      It's there -- take a closer look... :-)
      LikeReply 113 days ago
  • mzsherlock
    mzsherlock
    first time participant. No way to see the poems until after the contest? Some of these titles are winners already!!
    LikeReply 120 days ago
    • ericmatrix1
      ericmatrix1
      The contest officially starts in 15 days, which is the deadline to lock in all of the submissions. Then, once it starts, you have a few (7, I think) days to read them all and place your vote.
      LikeReply 116 days ago
  • mark.e.s
    mark.e.s
    Early heads-up all players, I'm looking forward to the endgame!
    LikeReply21 days ago
  • mark.e.s
    mark.e.s
    Anyone wanna play cards while we're waiting?
    LikeReply 223 days ago
  • mark.e.s
    mark.e.s
    111 to go!
    LikeReply23 days ago
  • Soleil_L
    Soleil_L
    Looking forward to read some fresh writes! I think it could be beneficial to be mindful of how we title our work. Not knowing what people go through, using graphic language could be triggering to some. Not an attack, just an opinion^.^ 
    LikeReply 329 days ago
    • ericmatrix1
      ericmatrix1
      Good call out. People who put graphic language in theirs are only guaranteeing that people like me, will never read it lol.
      LikeReply 216 days ago
    • Soleil_L
      Soleil_L
      No one has to read what they don't want to. I'm sure people sift through poems. I know I do.. Even inadvertently, I would hate for someone to relive any trauma and loose enjoyment. Speaking from personal experience, it's not comfortable. So I thought it was important to call awareness^.^ 
      LikeReply 216 days ago
    • mark.e.s
      mark.e.s
      lol
      LikeReply16 days ago
    • mark.e.s
      mark.e.s
      I often accidently enjoy what I just happen somehow to find and mistakenly read.
      LikeReply16 days ago
  • Tracystrater3060
    Tracystrater3060
    I just meant to submit some thoughts, not compete! But I, really happy to join this group
    LikeReply 51 month ago
    • mark.e.s
      mark.e.s
      Don't stop there!
      LikeReply16 days ago
    • Tracystrater3060
      Tracystrater3060
      Thanks for the encouragement, I really like your poems I could actually read! Social media site, sigh. You are really very good! I feel like some folks are very serious about this (and very verbose in their feedback) I hope I do not offend anyone by just having some fun, enjoying good poetry, etc. 
      LikeReply 112 days ago

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