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Neopoet Weekly 09/8/24 to 09/14/24

Submitted by Apostolos "Paul... on Sun, 2024-09-08 00:44
Status: 
Concluded
Start/end date: 
Monday, September 9, 2024 to Saturday, September 14, 2024
Contest description: 

Date Due:  September 7th, at 12 Noon Eastern Time

Contest Guidelines:  40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.

 Prize: One month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.

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Winning Poem

Cage of cards

 

by Edward nigma

Chaotically clustered
cage of
cards covering
all
cynically silent
sides of life
plainly plastered
before my
persistently passing
presence of
the present day.
Thoughtlessly thrashing
out the leisurely
overlapping lanes
of possibilities
prancing through
the pressuring palms
of probability.
With a single stern stomp
taking back the cross
mask of control.
There steadily
stumbled down
the obliquely built
walls of ambiguity
freely falling at
my frivolously
fleeting feet.
Vigorously revealing
the vaguely vapid
valley of victorious
vultures who
persistently preys
upon the weak
minded ones
who decisively numb
themselves within naivety .
But still
I walk forth
ahead through
the foreboding facade
of fear
lying before me.

 

 

Winning entry: 
Cage of cards

Comments

kowque

Sat, 2024-09-14 20:39

kowque's picture

Because you write the same way I do
But
BETTTTTER¡!¡!!!!

I like bed this piece
Especially that last stanza...wow!

Koki

Edward nigma

Sun, 2024-09-15 21:29

Edward nigma's picture
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I like to thank you for your nice comment and don’t doubt yourself upon your own merits. In these four or three years on this website I’ve grown and learned like anyone else. I am not special no one is but what we are we are smart people primmed and pushed by our pressuring palms of passion. And we all deserve recognition for our own merits our own strengths and even our weaknesses because that’s how we grow.

Hlm life without literature is a life without logic.

kowque

Wed, 2024-09-18 16:43

kowque's picture

Anyway,I meant I really liked your piece.

I'm liking the use of alliteration in that "... primed...." Sentence too :)

Thank you!

Koki

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