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Poetry.com Contest Summary & Results

Congratulations to the winners of the Poetry.com June 2024 monthly contest. There were 150 poems submitted to the contest — thank you to everyone who entered and participated!

Winners By popular vote

500

1^st Place

Narcissus by Jon Saviours

300

2^nd Place

Journey Through Life by Betsy Wokersien Stephens

200

3^rd Place

Butterfly and Pollywog by Susan Mayer Brumel

Runners-up

The Summer Lady MJM Wagner	America's Fight for Freedom. Steven Dupere	The Poor Man Paul E Wells
Taken Jeanie Eliassen	One Hundred Days- A Love Letter Susan Mayer Brumel

Nominees By random order

True Love Darryl Bartlett	HELP Jahmilah Diamante	Sweet Surrender Israel M. Gonzalez
No More a Muse Gregory Baranoff	TO MY CHILD MARINA SALEEM	No Longer Solid in this World Paulette Hampton
Fairy Tale Amanda K lessig (Sunshin…	DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT Donna Arlene Cooper	YOU ARE FOREVER Manisha Sood
Gasoline B. E. McCool	Quintessential migrant Sanjay Bhatia	Monstrous Veneer Tricia Vasquez
Teardrops fall from the trees. A J C	Where is Peace?! Alexandra Kirkbride	Whispers Dakota Taylor
Excalibur street R P Edwards	An American Story Adam Long	Dandelion seed Jen Liggett
Tropoautoegocrat Sarah Michelle Dragan	What Fell? Beverly Laskowski	...oh, i don't know... Anna Leah Luna-Raven
The thief Kai Burke	We Are Still Living Nalisha Beck	Hunger Lorraine M Fritsch
Porcelain Goddess Courtnie Mckern	For Those Who Dream Helen Sanchez	YOU CARRY ME WILLIAMoPRICEo2nd
Nature Camille Drummond	Cold Rain And You Israel M. Gonzalez	The date Elaine Newell
The Man in the Window Samantha Agar Smith	Phantom Limb Brian Ingle	Functional Freeze Michele
The Sun Sleeps at Sea Olivia Panaccione	Apryl My friend George R. Silvia	Storm TM28
Inner Self Portrait Sari Fishman	I Remember Everything About You Clarence Allan Ebert	Regret Joseph Ferguson
The Tui, Wasp and Camellia tree Tom Boggins	Cats on the Run Marna Paron	Requiem Roy Graham
Gates Of A Kingdom Matthew Mernagh	Lost, Found, Lost Again. Joe Strickland	Autumn Winds Ilan Fainman
Picasso Madeleine Morgan	Destiny Unknown Barbara Peabody Pouliot	When Does an Ally Stop Being an Ally? Arie Castle
what a child knows about death Daniel Wang	QUARANTINE Randy West	Leader of the band Ronald Elden Corder
Reverence Elizabeth Claire Nunley	A Warning Penelope Alice	Mud Pies Sharla Lee Shults
Poetry Is Of Everything Lawrence Gene Ingle	Bruised Fruit Sarah Pingel	The Conservative Party Creed Marc Veddier
Untitled Vicki Vogt	The Healing from the earth, the immortality of the tree Eni Manoku	Must I Try? Tim Strauss
Chained Melodies Uma Cokovic	The automaker automatically corrected eras Aria zenska	Grief Peggy Todd Dauzat
Some Glad Morning Anthony Green	Siren Mistresses Erica Dawn Deanes	My Hope For You Samantha Marshall
Colours of Unity Niranjan Selvadurai	Tiny Soldier Jeremy Chinn	Returning the shadows JessOuellness
Isolation, a continuous cycle Allison Rowzee	Letter to my Higher Self Manuela Achim	Can I Love You Nathan Cook
The automakers automatically corrected eras Kristin DiMatteo	letter to my younger self. Jaden Drago	Paradise Gone Fritz Crowley
Bikers Last Wish Larry Rose	The Smell of Daycare Patty Guttu	One More Day To Live Ramon P. De Jesus, Jr.
Getting Gamed Al Bartolis	Eternal sunshine REBEL	Bubonic Flowers in Your Dreams Eric Nester
Manna and Skin Sofia Ashtyn	The Waterfall Kimberley Hamilton	Portrait of Dad Barbara A Cadogan
What mask do I wear Joy lea tholstrup	A beam of light shining Joshua Parel	No one else is there Ailsa wright
The Broken Man Robert Rowe	The discoverers goodbye kiss B.E.McCool	Cold Richard
Purple Iris (10 syllable meter) Chana Winter	Forgotten Silhouettes Rchard Scorpio	Can’tcer Dokameze
Beloved I Believe Love Exsist Shanna M Viator	Who Am I? Lee Bugg	The End Georgia Pratt
Leo in the wild Marcus Sims	Like a Storm Troy A Houston	And in her arms, I found absolution Carter Smith
Tootsie Roll Sophia Dixon	REFLECTIONS Dawn Tegge	Lyrical Love Carlisa Riley
YOU ARE ANCESTORS Manisha Sood	Borderlands Susan Hauck	The Way It Used To Be Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-F…
For Those Depressed Steven Dupere	Drive Through Madeleine Moffett	The Value of Love Thomas E Treacy
The silent Prayer Jemmel Hayes	Who Am I Dokameze (pronounced Doe…	In a van down by the river Darksy
Gone but not forgotten Julie Graham	YOU ARE BREATH Manisha Sood	At Church Anthony Green
An Old Black Chair Yvonne Marie Savon-Lohman	THE SKY HAS NEW MEANING Jerry Genovese	Magnum Opus Jonathan A. Lacey
ON THE WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY Maria Williams	Boomerang Chelsea Davis	Charge of the Nightingale Brigade Lou Brennan
My Lady............. Michael Hanson	The Lonely Path Gunnar P. Schneider	Last Chance Elizabeth Hyang Hughes
Filthy Divine Da’Ja	1815-1922, The song of Il Risorgimento Sabrina Cheng	The Boat Upon the Lake Randy West
God’s Child Latin X	The Park at the Corner of Huanpi and Jingping Roads Mary Theresa Klem	A singer I was Kristy Evans
Broken not broke Anthony Kiernan	Until That Day Charlcie Hunter	I'm Somebody Darrell W. Harden
Active-Revolutionist (Fake News And Media) Raheem Muhammad	The Final Day Ryan "Rev" McLean	The Finesse Of Constantly Confronting Adversity Alex Wafula
Time went by Robert Donaldson	Imagine Toi Lindsey	Unrequited love Sivan Moss
The Guest House Susanna Elliott-Newth	Lifted B.C. Byron	Shadowlight Walter Moore
YOUNG WERTHER AND I Sari Fishman

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LatinX
May the best poem win!
LikeReply 118 days ago
sofieashtyn929
Good luck everyone!
LikeReply 124 days ago
Runt
been writing for several years never knew there were online contest until i stumbled across this website and thought i'd give it a try,
Good Luck to all
LikeReply 126 days ago
- acronimous
  Welcome aboard, Runt! Best of luck in the contest!
  LikeReply25 days ago
Flowerseller
Hi all
My first comp and I cannot wait to read your poems! Loui
LikeReply 128 days ago
rinat
A warm welcome to all nominees of our June 2024 contest on Poetry.com! Wishing everyone the best of luck and eagerly anticipating the discovery of some exceptional poetry gems soon... :-)
LikeReply 11 month ago
- Adroity
  Amazing! @
  LikeReply20 days ago
jonsaviours
I've payed the fee but I haven't gotten any response yet about the status of my submission.
How long does it take?
LikeReply1 month ago
- acronimous
  Hi there, there seems to be an issue with your payment. We have emailed you the details to help sort this out.
  LikeReply1 month ago
Lacey,J
Goodluck to all
LikeReply 21 month ago

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