Poetry Contest 2017

Contest #5 Results

Hi again! I hope you all are getting ready for the holidays! This contest's topic was "Food." I received many submissions and they were all wonderful. This contest there will be a first, second and third place winners.

First Place will receive: a shoutout, 15 votes and 7 comments on any book(s) of their choice, and they will get to choose the next topic if they wish.

Second Place will receive: 10 votes and 5 comments on any book(s) of their choice.

Third Place will receive: 5 votes and 3 comment on any book(s) of their choice.

Winners please comment or private message me for which books you would like to be voted and commented on.

Here are the winners:

Third Place:  Hailstorm_2004

I loved simplicity of this poem and how you made the all lines flow together beautifully. 

Here is the poem:

With it I can live and thrive

Without it I shall wither and die

My nourishment and energy

It's importance undermined

Describable in a single word...

Food.

Second Place: mariam662

I loved how you never mentioned what the food was yet you automatically knew what it was. Your detail was great and so were the emotions in it.

Titled "Coffee" here is a part of the poem:

Every mornings I need you,

Difficult to start without you,

Tasting you arouses in me,

The energy to fight the new day

Find the full poem in her book titled "Some Words Of Mine"

First Place: SmallBobInc

I loved the way you portrayed "food" through this poem. It was unique, creative and will forever be one of my favorite poems that I've ever read.

Here is the full poem:

Instead of eating ice cream cones,

you feast on broken dreams and fractured bones.

Munching on marrow,

nibbling till numb,

taking and making blood coat your gums.

Nostalgia's your nutrition,

a startling condition:

can't feel a thing from head to toe

so you eat and you eat until you choke --

on the tears of the truly living,

and the sweat of the damned.

It's more than anyone could hope to stand.

Consume liquid doom,

feel it coarse through your body -

that broken vessel you wear -

Devour and scour the earth for little liars,

surviving on sadness and whores for hire.

Did it fill you up, shock you through?

...or was another bite nothing new?

Great job winners!!!

Thanks so much to all who submitted! I will put out Contest 6 once I hear back from the First Place winner! Keep writing y'all!