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August 2026 Poetry Competition

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Submission Deadline

August 20, 2026 at 23:59 PM

Voting Deadline

August 31, 2026 at 23:59 PM

Submitted Poems

No Longer Home, but Rather Belonging
No Longer Home, but Rather Belonging
Inspirational / Motivational Poetry Human

by Dance_Addie · Aug 09, 2026

Empty house, full of memories. Filled boxes, empty of joy. Roads and roads away, from where one day. You met th…

Journey to Self Help
Journey to Self Help
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by Lilah_5768 · Aug 10, 2026

I’m drowning in the thoughts of some motivational speaker who never even went to college. I’m in love with a straight…

The Chisel
The Chisel
General Poetry Human

by gracemforsyth · Aug 08, 2026

Summer drags long into spirals of heat and longing and silence. The mosquitoes shriek songs, convoluted high pitched …

The Cost Of Being Born
The Cost Of Being Born
Human

by esantos1153 · Aug 20, 2026

Lighter lighting the blunt that takes the pain The pain of addiction The pain of loss The pain of love All love ha…

is hate enough to stop loving
is hate enough to stop loving
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by tiawritespoetry · Aug 13, 2026

I hate you. for how a joke slipped from our mouths and grew teeth in the dark. for how "I hate you" became somethi…

THE ANATOMY OF LOVE
THE ANATOMY OF LOVE
Contemporary / Modern Poetry AI Assisted

by _SarahUnfolded_ · Aug 12, 2026

THE ANATOMY OF LOVE by Sarah Tabin Love does not begin in the heart— that is a myth we’ve memorized too well. It …

Thread
Thread
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by JosephW · Aug 16, 2026

our souls were one but distinctly two for mine was festering, infected and blue but in my sickness, ill and rot wa…

found it but at what cost
found it but at what cost
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by tiawritespoetry · Aug 13, 2026

Love is what I yearned for— the kind where lovers wait an eternity just to find each other. The kind of love so stro…

The Queen in her palace
The Queen in her palace
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by JosephW · Aug 16, 2026

deflated and defeated, the queen sends her last men with cobalt jackets and argent insides they arrive by capsu…

In Strange Fields
In Strange Fields
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by danbrady · Aug 10, 2026

In strange fields their minds run free, passed the border, passed sanity? lost in secrets, trapped, alone, their th…

BLUEPRINT
BLUEPRINT
Human

by Esabel_380 · Aug 07, 2026

The grid of the world is too small for this rage. I am my own biggest hater, a precise machine, cutting out my tongue…

Knot
Knot
General Poetry Human

by JosephW · Aug 16, 2026

Not a wall - but memory insulation. Each room hosts life; its grasp inextricable its air warmly familiar and yet f…

Who Am I?
Who Am I?
General Poetry Human

by Gav · Aug 09, 2026

Who am I? I am a mere spirit floating in the wind of consciousness, The spirit of a thousand worlds, a thousand lifet…

THE MOTH
THE MOTH
Human

by Esabel_380 · Aug 07, 2026

The moth mistakes the lamp for dawn and circles still when hope is gone. I watch and wonder if I'm too chasing light…

ignored
ignored
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by tiawritespoetry · Aug 13, 2026

funny how we are all born the same, soft-skinned, wide-eyed, without hatred in our hands, yet somehow grow into en…

Thawing
Thawing
Nature Poetry / Ecopoetry Human

by SophieeHarris · Aug 11, 2026

Cassidy has always loved the Sun. She was told as a kid not to look directly at it– A lesson Cassidy found unbearably…

etch
etch
Contemporary / Modern Poetry Human

by tiawritespoetry · Aug 13, 2026

Day by day, the you that's left only in my memories is starting to fade. I close my eyes, Trying to hold on to you…

stay and leave
stay and leave
Human

by tiawritespoetry · Aug 13, 2026

I stay | I leave because I love you | because I choose myself I want to be there | but not enough to remain thro…

Once Barren, Now Paradise
Once Barren, Now Paradise
Human

by Tmiller6601 · Aug 18, 2026

Once Barren, Now Paradise I deemed benefit elsewhere, there only cease, Now I harbor anguish, not worthy of a relea…

The Mountain Listened
The Mountain Listened
Nature Poetry / Ecopoetry Human

by @susanketpanda · Aug 06, 2026

Today,i came to you not as a traveler but as a burdened soul searching for a place where my pain could finally re…

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May 2026 Poetry Competition

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March 2026 Poetry Competition

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Winner:

Knock at my window

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