Stories - Short Fiction & Poetry Contest - 2019 - page 1 - Poetry

Poetry

1 min

I Went to Prague and I went to Virginia

Ellie Wilkie

I went to Prague and a thousand spires greeted me; brushed the skies and toyed with the clouds. ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Unattached

Aria Austin

I never felt attached

to the translucent lights that dance across the glass

my cheeks ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Ker Ys (after Baton Rouge, after St. George)

Jack Dean

Highways
Vivisected

Shotgun houses
with mouths agape
gasping for air

Two fires ... [+]

Poetry

4 min

Matoaka

Shane Moran

I

My eyes are tired and heavy,

I’ve woken up, again, in the McGlothlin basement,

A ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Richter scale

Alessandra Scholle

Home is a place I’ve never lived

Even though I know the hills and valleys of it

I didn’t ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Home

Mazarine Rossert

It takes someone remarkably special,

to make a rainy day feel warm.

to feel cozy unde ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Familiar Sounds

Jack Cackley

I apply just the right pressure to the doorknob

And it clicks open

I step inside, to the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

To compose a love letter

Kathy Jiang

in my chest i hold

flickering nights on your couch,

crumbs between the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Send Me the Sunrise

Daria Moody

Send me the sunrise.

You told me it misses me.

The pink, orange, red,

Breaking the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Welcome Home

Matt Nwaneri

I was greeted to this campus
With “Welcome home”
So ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Home

Erika Puckett

Home

as she sits there quietly
observing
the people moving
carefully
through a series ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

My Lost Home

Sarah Wicker

My lost Home

A two-door red pick up

Grinding to shift gears

Popping of grease on ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A midnight highway drive

Warrior Birdie

On January fourteenth,

I seized upon a highway midnight drive

There was a high in my ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Sixteen and Adams

Lauren Wilson

The sign in the school parking lot ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Midwest Winter

Caroline Palasz

For you it might be the most boring six hour drive of your life.

Just flat land

And gas ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

leaving Eden (for a fitting home)

James Barrie

the serpent resides coiled in my chest
I hardly know it is still ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Changed Home

Jonas Trepanier

I don’t recognize this weathered place ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Lost No Longer

Diana Haemer

The path I know

I’ve come to know

Memorized with

Feet not eyes

Walking ... [+]