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Poetry.com Contest Summary & Results

Congratulations to the winners of Poetry.com’s February 2024 Monthly Contest! With 150 poems submitted, we’re grateful to everyone who entered and participated. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us!

Winners By popular vote

500

1^st Place

For Lindsay by Paul E Wells

300

2^nd Place

The Invisible Rainbow by Drew Harrison

200

3^rd Place

the bar in manhattan by rj haley

Runners-up

The leaves are falling Jonathan Zyra	Thunder and Lightning Leslie Kay Lanham	She Lies In Shallow Water Nicola Rosetti
The Doorway To Your Heart Matthew Mernagh	Why I flinch Niki Marie betsill

Nominees By random order

Shoes Leslie A Lamb	With Every Solar Rotation Anna Daccache	a letter to dad David E. Johnson II
Together As We W.R.Studer	Warrior Michelle Lanzafama	Mother Nature’s Luck Tiffany Ahnama
Bambina tu... o Donna Antonio Spinelli	Righteous knot JP Parker	What Resides Within Tim Strauss
Black V White is just what they want Chrissy.	A Mother's Love Daniell Trujillo	Playtime Beverly Laskowski
Ordinary Extraordinary People Louise Buckle	The poem I never thought I'd write Ruben Padilla-Baez	Authenticity of the Soul Teri Dourmashkin
My Wife Graham BYrne	Beauty Expressed GCThomas	I CAN'T HELP Stacey Powells
Silence Vulpes	I Live In Alabaster Ryder Die	Hiroshima Delirium Sr. Mary Khazak Grant
A May-September Romance Curtis Jerry Smothers	Take Me Back Doug Haberman	Friendship Barry W Smith
Day Dream Caroline Alperin	Dakota Bear Yvonne Laverdure	Not Broken Rebecca Bembry
And People Wandered Aimlessly Susan Mayer Brumel	Body Amanda K. Harris	Why Kateryna Popovska
Staring into Darkness Susanna Elliott-Newth	Self Kifaayat Muhammad	Hard to face Fanshun Curtis
Poet & Poem Collision Francelle Ortega	Strawberries Warren Joe Hartung	To The Girl In The Red Dress Gregory Baranoff
The Galaxy Harry C. Craft III	With Me Gilda Craigan	ALONE Scott Ortiz
Presence. Dr Matthew Pears	Out-slept the Womb Iain McLean	Despite the dying of the light Tia Mijatovic
A Spark is Made Arjun Desai	I Have Questions Ruth Mahogany Utsu	Plucked Elegance Rebecca Drimmel
Stars We Are Carla	What's in a Name? Susanna Elliott-Newth	Misty Morning Misty Morning
A Decade Mai Bernal-Roeder	The Cycle Thomas Roose	Wash Away Madelin Bragner
Soul Journey Jenn E Tubman	Jaffa John P. Portelli	Illusions of a Fantasy FreeBird 02
Smow Mo Khurram	The Rusty Dusty of Getting Old Steven Dupere	Crypt Caroline Alperin
How Do I Tell You George Ruddock	You are the one Ron234	Through the Looking Glass Nikki Olivo
The poet's journey Ian Martinez-Arroyo	She Eats Boys for Breakfast iii Emily T Wright	The Power of Tranquility Aubri Gist
As I lay here and grow older Gannon David Reed	My Best Friend Christine Conant	Come Captives of the Mind Jeannine Sapere
A reissue of the heart Bailey N.	Twist the Torn Rebecca Crosson	Lost Soul Nikki Easton
Counting snowflakes will not help me sleep Stacey R. Forbes	Foreign Friends Lugesan Reddy	Thoughts Tania Vargas
When the Angels Come to Call Randy West	Strength of a Mother Cheslea Thompson	My Perfect Life Barbara Peabody Pouliot
Collateral Damage Francesco Artuso	Six-Point Visitation Robbin T. Hartridge	Conflict Robert loughran
Missing You Patricia Iriebi	What is Love Denzil Naicker	A daughters plea Elizabeth lily
Cosmic Twilight Stars A.P. Garfoot	Crossing Boundaries, Chasing Progress Nicomedes S. Lumontad	Dialectical Float Therapy (DFT) Heidi Hollingsworth
It Started with a Noodle...then not (Middle Name) Yvette	We Are Poets Robert T. Davenport	"The Rooster and the Hen" (Part 1) (Draft 05) Jeffrey Bryan Mamet
Looking In Joann Sanders	I Care Christine Conant	Memory K. Maxwell
A shadow cast from a hollowed shell Steven K. Anderson	Dystopia Under a Utopic Sky Susanna Elliott-Newth	Trickle-Down Political Bullshit Steve Dupere
Past the Shallows Susanna Elliott-Newth	Treasure Yourself Lady A	ELEMENTAL Brent J.W Foreman
Life Maryam Aribi	Valentine Kim Travis	I Am With You Taylor Thompson
Routine Steven Dupere	Cancer Courtnie Mckern	Colonizers Arun Sankar (Waldensoul)
The Journey of Repair Somer James	Fire of Love Brittany Rott	My Love Darrell Shook
What happened to your world Benjamin montanez	Scents of Memory Janudi Rupasinghe	Combing Her Hair Peter Kurt Mason
Heart and Soul EDWARD P DONOVAN	Vulnerability Jim Lewis	Delusional Susanna Elliott-Newth
Taranis, the Celtic Thunder-God, for sufferers of Long Covid and all debilities Susan Mayer Brumel	Where does your star lie? Steven K. Anderson	The American Idol 2021 Zachary Huneycutt
Twisted Sisters Linda Dare	A Cancer Story Steven Dupere	Unexpected Rain in a Colorado Winter Sarah Willenbrecht
Face in the Mirror Mainak Dhar	as above, so below L A N ☥ C A I	Sleep Paralysis Lugesan Reddy
The man on the moon told me I will love again Lisa Shayne	If I Could Love You Kaiya Michelle Hamilton	I Wish I Could Write Poetry Olivia Skaret
The Bricks of My Tower Falling Gashed Open My Head Cellar Door	I See Now Azziem 'TheDream' Underw…	Vanitas Edgar DeBoer
Here I am Ann Anaja	Poets of a Million Thoughts Harriet A Shea (Derena B…	Her Never After Her Never After
PUZZLES Donna Lagone	our mother earth and our father god anna stephanie	I want...... Annia Levy
Werewolves We Are Werewolves We Are	A Mystic to a Poet John W. May	Interviews with Hitler Brady Kent ( Glenn McCle…
Destiny Bernika S. Miller

Share your thoughts about the February 2024 Contest with the community:

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Caliconine
When do we share comments about March contest. This site is confusing.
Good luck to All. I am a bit disappointed this month. Some of the poems are not appropriate. I noticed some people alter other peoples poems to enter.
I am not usually a critical person, but this is suppose to be about sharing our beautiful gift of poetry with others. Not about the money, about the connections and respect. There are 5 billion topics to write about. People should always write from their own heart. By the way all my poems have been copyrighted. I have a large collection. I thought it would be fun to share with other poets! Not so sure???? more »
LikeReply9 months ago
Darrell
Congratulations to all the winners. And everyone that submitted a poem. I will try again this month. I have to pick which one to submit.
LikeReply 110 months ago
susan.brumel
Congratulations to all! I enjoyed reading your poems.
LikeReply 310 months ago
acronimous
Apologies for the delay in announcing the February contest results; they will be shared later today. Thank you for your patience.
LikeReply 510 months ago
DrewHarrisonBooks
When the competition is so tight that even the judges have a hard time choosing the winner
LikeReply 210 months ago
Courtnie.mckern
This is my first contest! Does it usually take this long for the results?
LikeReply 110 months ago
Nikkiluv29
Anyone know when the results will be up? Good luck to all!
LikeReply 110 months ago
Caliconine
When is the great reveal. Hey maybe we all won Now that would be great if we all got a coffee mug
LikeReply 510 months ago
Caliconine
Has anyone heard from Karl Folkes lately?
LikeReply10 months ago
S25400242
When do we find out the results?
LikeReply10 months ago
Caliconine
This was a very hard choice. Good luck to all. If you do not win, please do not take it personal. It is all about what connects to another person the moment they read your poem. Not about Good or Bad poem,,, more »
LikeReply 510 months ago
mattp.77832
Hi all, when are the results shown? Ty so much for all the good reads
LikeReply 310 months ago
- Vixility
  The results of each contest months are typically posted on the 8th of the following month. My guess is that they will be posted sometime later today … hopefully.
  LikeReply 210 months ago
Vixility
Wishing everyone the best tomorrow. As usual, very tough to select a single favorite/winning poem.

Personally, I had eleven pinned poem—three were monsters to choose between.
LikeReply 310 months ago
nulllulu641
Good luck to everyone!
LikeReply 211 months ago
- karena.20089
  Thank you!
  LikeReply11 months ago
- S25400242
  thank you!!!!
  LikeReply10 months ago
karena.20089
Awesome
LikeReply 111 months ago
anjandev.burd
Great.
LikeReply 111 months ago

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