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August 2026 Poetry Competition
Voting OpenSubmission 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Past Competitions
July 2026 Poetry Competition
July 2026
Monthly poetry competition for July 2026.
Winner:
All Around
by fatimamohamed
June 2026 Poetry Competition
June 2026
Monthly poetry competition for June 2026.
Winner:
Dr. Know-No
by sleigh.maslin
May 2026 Poetry Competition
May 2026
Submit your poem for the May 2026 community competition. Voting is open through the end of the month.
Winner:
Jack
by Vixibeth
March 2026 Poetry Competition
March 2026
The March 2026 Poetry Competition is part of the Alumniyat Poetry Community’s monthly literary events celebrating creat…
Winner:
Knock at my window
by JoWebb64
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