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

Topic:  I Lost the Instructions

Deadline: August 31st   2024

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

Topic:  Broken Air Condition

Deadline: August 31st   2024

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

Topic:  Beach Day

Deadline: August 31st   2024

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

 Prizes: One month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.

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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.

Prize: One month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.

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Date Due:  August 3rd, 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

Moth to a Flame

By Sen99

She is like a naked flame starved of oxygen.
White hot but almost exhausted,
Weary like a candle at the end of its life.

I’m a blind, deranged moth
Excited to be flying towards her cold fire,
Eager to be engulfed by her,
Hypnotized and confused by one last flicker of light.

A moth has no mouth
Still, I wanted to lick her flame,
One last taste of her tongue,
A final kiss before extinction.

Just before I reached her, she blew out,
Extinguished by a winter wind
Her soot and ashes
Were just dead memories of a failed love.

Date Due:  July 27th 2024, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

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

 Prize: One month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.

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Winning Poem

Broken Glass (e. s.)

Submitted by Candlewitch

She was a dancer
on dark paved streets,
she had vibrations in her soul
always music in her head.

Could not keep still,
her bare feet ever
tapping out the rhythm
of a distant melody.

Each day saw changes
on her preferred stage,
trash cans overflow
garbage in the streets.

Alarmed, a child pointed out;
"Look, Mom she's bleeding!"
(they looked on in shock)
As she danced on broken glass.

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Submissions Due: July 29th  2024.

Contest Process:  There will be two parts to this contest. The first part is judged by our anonymous judges that will select two finalists. The membership will vote for the winner.

 Guidelines: No longer than 40 lines, One poem per member

 Prize:  10 Dollar Amazon gift certificate, one month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology

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Winning Poem

Feelings Lost

By Clentin

We once embraced and knocked our knees
Now we are tied to our phones and keys

Human interaction seems to fade away
As our internet capabilities are here to stay

Plucking away on the facebook page
Sends me into an inner rage

Watching our young and how they react
Has changed our lives and that’s a fact

How can we teach them how to enjoy a touch
A warm embrace, the thrill of a crush

Interaction is what we really need
To form a society that will be freed

To stop our moans and groans
We need to limit time on our phones!

Description: The winner of the 1st half of the yearly contest 2024

In Another Life I Live Bravely

Submitted by MermaidMaster

I want to live in the tallest apartment in New
York City, and peer my gaping eyes through
my window to see only dancing beetles below.

I will wear expensive feathers and furs, I’ll
dance with strangers, and I’ll party for a while
with headliners after sold-out shows.

I’ll walk the streets wearing only perfume and
watch men stand agape as I strut past, too awed
at my nakedness proud and aglow.

I’ll rebel and I’ll wail and I’ll cry out,
“Change will come! Justice will prevail!”
And I won’t shut up until Change comes and goes.

I’ll play poker with CEO’s, and kiss strange men in taxis,
and spin through the nights like a globe on its axis;
to live with honeyed hi’s! And never with lows.

I’ll do pilates and yoga, drink only red wine,
and I won’t dwell on the men who used to be mine.
I’ll live fast and so furiously young,
and I’ll die gentle, soft and divine.

Date Due:  July 20th  2024, 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

Higher and Higher

Submitted by Shelby Pryor

I've been on my back lately
I haven't tried getting up
I've embraced the tears
But enough is enough

I won't just get up now
I'll rise like a Phoenix
Shaking the ashes off
The life that I'll fix

I will not be passive
It is time to ravage
The fear inside me
I'll attack like a savage

Wipe the blood from my lip
Dust the dirt off my hands
For victory belongs to the one
Who runs, not who stands

Fire comsumes my heart
Burning up all the pain
You might have crushed me
But it was not in vain

What destroys the others
Will not mar my skin
The scars are finally fading
My thread no longer thin

So watch my eyes ignite
Watch my steps shift
I'll treat my life not as
As a curse but a gift

I am done holding back
Living like a caged-up lion
I will keep getting up
When it feels like I'm dyin'

So give me back the pen
Only I can write my story
Every drop of blood spilled
Is another step towards glory

You can deliver a steep uppercut
But I'm a last round fighter
Even with you pushing me down
I keep flying Higher and Higher

Date Due:  July 13th 2024, 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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Coal Mine Canary

Submitted by hippiemoon

Do you know about coal mine canaries?
They used to take caged birds down into the coal mines,
And when they would die the workers would know to leave too.

Let me be a canary in your chest.
Let me live inside your rib cage,
Feel your heart beat for me,
Watch your blood flow through your veins.

Keep me safe next to your heart
And I’ll keep you safe from all that’s bad.

Use me as your compass,
I’ll tell you to run when things get hard.

Let me be your coal mine canary.
Let me sacrifice myself to save you from the inevitable.