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neopoet contests Sep 30, 2024

10/24 Fireside Confession

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Topic: Fireside confession

Deadline: October 31st  12:00 pm eastern

Objective:  Write a poem about the topic above

Guidelines: The title is left to your creativity. 

                       Poems may be any type but must be forty lines or less. One poem per member

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10/24 Disappointing Halloween

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Neopoet.com wants to challenge you to write poetry about this month's topic that is provided below.

Topic: Disappointing Halloween

Deadline: October 31st  12:00 pm eastern

Objective:  Write a poem about the topic above

Guidelines: The title is left to your creativity. 

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neopoet contests Sep 28, 2024

Neopoet Weekly 09/29/24 to 10/05/24

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Date Due:  October 5th , at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

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neopoet contests Sep 21, 2024

Neopoet Weekly 09/22/24 to 09/28/24

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Date Due:  September 28, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

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THE WRATHFUL SEA

by Jokerface82

Her salted bludgeoning maw
swallowed vessels and galleys
with its green saline gullet of
ulcers
barnacles, and a throat full of oily
spots of acne sticky limpets

Treasures guarded by a circle
of sharks in an ocean restaurant
pinching crabs,
and swaying seaweed keeping naval
secrets.

A wave of wrathfulness, tossing
clubbing, floating ships, drowning
them into the abyss.
stripping seamen Into
skeletons with silent screams.

Supported by a howling killer
of a storm . Ripping, blowing holes
into arthritis wooden decks into oblivion
into the coldest dark depths.

 

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neopoet contests Sep 14, 2024

Nepoet Weekly 09/15/24 to 09/21/24

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Date Due:  September 21st, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

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Grandiose Majestic Mountain

by Jokerface82

There stood a majestic
Craggy face with razor blade
Edges of a monstrous
time honoured mountain

Turning its rocky nose up
at anything below him, robust
Jagged and risky, high stabbing
armour with White shark tip
Cut throated fins.

Bald rugged with a silent manner
cold stone as white as marshmallow
steep and strong, bold and old
broad frosted shoulders

With powdered freckles and a storm grey
complexion it wore a white necklace
and a frosted crown, made
by heaven.

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Neopoet Weekly 09/8/24 to 09/14/24

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Date Due:  September 7th, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

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Winning Poem

Cage of cards

 

by Edward nigma

Chaotically clustered
cage of
cards covering
all
cynically silent
sides of life
plainly plastered
before my
persistently passing
presence of
the present day.
Thoughtlessly thrashing
out the leisurely
overlapping lanes
of possibilities
prancing through
the pressuring palms
of probability.
With a single stern stomp
taking back the cross
mask of control.
There steadily
stumbled down
the obliquely built
walls of ambiguity
freely falling at
my frivolously
fleeting feet.
Vigorously revealing
the vaguely vapid
valley of victorious
vultures who
persistently preys
upon the weak
minded ones
who decisively numb
themselves within naivety .
But still
I walk forth
ahead through
the foreboding facade
of fear
lying before me.

 

 

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kowque

kowque

10 months 2 weeks ago

I'm gagging

Because you write the same way I do
But
BETTTTTER¡!¡!!!!

I like bed this piece
Especially that last stanza...wow!

Edward nigma

Edward nigma

10 months 2 weeks ago

Thank you

I like to thank you for your nice comment and don’t doubt yourself upon your own merits. In these four or three years on this website I’ve grown and learned like anyone else. I am not special no one is but what we are we are smart people primmed and pushed by our pressuring palms of passion. And we all deserve recognition for our own merits our own strengths and even our weaknesses because that’s how we grow.

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neopoet contests Aug 31, 2024

Neopoet Weekly 09/01/24 to 09/07/24

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Date Due:  September 7th, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

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Echoes

 By Trail

Once there was a man
Who wrote beautiful music
He wrote the music because he was sad
He was sad because he was all alone

But he was noticed for his music
He ended up being loved for it
And in being loved
He lost his sadness
And his music soon after

 

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captain 2

10 months 2 weeks ago

awsome!

you said it perfectly. Success seems to kill the very thing that drove it.
I love poems like this - simple clear, and true - right to the point. It's not as easy as it looks.

Best,
captain

LilacsandLace

LilacsandLace

10 months 1 week ago

Oh goodness, isn't this the

Oh goodness, isn't this the fear of every mentally ill artist? When the depression or disorder drives the creativity, what do we become when we heal and recover? Do we keep it? Who are we when our life doesn't revolve around our sick brains? The optimism of recovering is immobilized by the fear of losing creativity. I have been there so many times. Well-written, and eloquently simple!

Leslie

Leslie

9 months 3 weeks ago

Trail

you have such soothing eloquent words and I wonder how you are doing? John

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neopoet contests Aug 31, 2024

09/24 New Member Contest

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Objective: Write your best fresh poem

 

Guidelines: For New Members only that have been on Neopoet for two months.

Any type of poetry that is 40 lines or less.

One poem per member.

 

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09/24 The Bully

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Neopoet.com wants to challenge you to write poetry about this month's topic that is provided below.

Topic:  The Bully 

Deadline: September 30th 2024

Objective:  Write a poem about the topic above

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09/24 Under the boardwalk

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Neopoet.com wants to challenge you to write poetry about this month's topic that is provided below.

Topic:  Under the boardwalk

Deadline: September 30th 2024

Objective:  Write a poem about the topic above

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