After “Desiderata” (Collection)
Contestants were asked to respond to the timeless message of Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poetic prose essay. Their winning entries follow …
Category: Rhyme
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[An Enigmatic Loneliness]
An enigmatic loneliness Has nestled on my porch— A mottle-feathered camouflage Against his stony berth. At first, I thought ‘twas …
Imagine If
Imagine, said the porcupine if buffalos could fly, If ocelots would only dine on elderberry pie, If silverbacks played paddy …
Sugar Maple
My lover is a sugar maple tree, her back erect and regal, erudite, her breast replete with summer’s greenery, her …
From Humble Dark Beginnings
I grew beneath the shadows where light was hard to find lay there amongst the darkness abandoned, left behind. I …
Heaven Forbid!
“Are these the famous Pearly Gates? And are you that Saint Peter? I’ve heard of both, of course, but always …
The Last Drop
Never want to leave that sunset Value every single ray Though the brightness of the sunshine Spent its youth and …
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[ If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors ]
If I were a painter I’d paint you in colors Of emerald and olive and amaranth-red, Agleam in the beam …