Joseph Imperi–Winner of Valentine’s Writer’s Challenge

Congratulations Joseph Imperi !!!!!! You are the winner of the Valentine’s Writer’s Challenge. 

You have won your choice of prizes in which we will discuss in private, along with a painting by A. Joleigh.

 

To find out more about Joseph Imperi, please visit Meet the Winners!!

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To learn more about our upcoming Mardi Gras Writer’s Challenge, click here.

Voting Time!!! Valentine’s Poetry Writer’s Challenge

Time to vote on your favorite poetry!!!

Voting: January 20th – January 25th (you may vote up to two times)

Winner’s announced: January 26, 2014 

Prizes: ***a romantic theme painted by A. Joleigh (reserved for winner by the public vote), a book of poetry (specifics will be announced soon), chocolates and a card sent to a secret love or someone you admire from afar.

***painting will be done on canvas and shipped in a mailing tube to the winner. Winner is responsible for framing once they receive it. 

A Cup of Wine by M. A Barr

Through-out time I’ve seen men like you destroyed by this same madness, cross-eyed, weeping, howling to the moon and stars,

scribbling promises they cannot keep, stars they cannot touch, diamonds they cannot buy, and an eternity that they cannot live or even measure,

star-crossed boys who believe they know everything but spout drivel from milk-stained

In Maiden’s Eyes (inspired by A. Joleigh’s photo) by A. Long

In maiden’s eyes, great surprise,
inspiring all, like day’s sunrise!

In maiden’s eyes, I see the world,
All it’s glories, are unfurled.
In maiden’s eyes, I see the light,
All it’s beauty, beaming bright.
In maiden’s eyes, I see the joy,
All it’s laughter, all souls enjoy.

Shadow Dancer by Doug Metz

once walking through the woods

my mind dull and dreary

i paused to rest beside an oak

and lay my spirit weary

the orb of light hanging low

having all but given up

V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E by Francis James Franklin

Voluptuous perfection, passion divine
Always I’ve ached for you to be mine
Love me, I beg you, I’m yours to command
Every wish, each little demand

Again by Robert Price

Again
By Robert C Price

Here we go
Starting over
Living in the infinity of time

A Beautiful Procession by Sam Collett

A divine beauty, sent from above

Her eyes shining like stars
I could not help but lose myself in them
Silky hair cascading down her shoulders
Flowing like a magnificent waterfall

She smiled, sweet velvety lips

The Kiss by Yolanda Isabel Regueira Marin

His eyes meet mine, Through lowered lashes I glance back. I feel my heart skipping a beat, A sharp intake of breath. Warm body pressed against my own, My body moulding into his. Hand travels slowly down my back, He pulls me closer, We are locked. A soft

Teenage Love by Tanya Miranda

I put salt in my Dad’s coffee
And dash sugar on my fries,
“What’s the matter with you? Are you in love or something?”
I am, to my surprise.

Dad asks me why I’m staring
At the budding roses on the window sill.

Memories of Love by Matt Ewens

Delicately touching her image locked in time,
A whispered voice, ‘darling you were once mine’,
Swallowing tears and reliving distant fears,
His head bows to remember those years.

Her sparkling eyes, once so full of love,
Beautifully enigmatic, like angels above,
Her sunshine smile and wispy golden hair,

If You Are The Fire, I Am The Flame by Charlee Felice

Did you know that we carry
Our love in our hearts?
Destiny made our path
To never be apart

It was on that day
When I walked along your side
A magical moment
You stood tall with a smile

Really?! Seriously?! by Joseph Imperi

Really?!?!?!?! Seriously?!?!?!?!

You were always my best friend first
There is really no excuse
Your love is what I thirst
Oh really what’s the use

You were given all I could give
I asked for only love in return
What I offered was a chance to live
Instead I am alone and need to learn

Now I know It’s over
I can read between the lines
So much for the four leaf clover
You have given me all the signs

A wish is a wish
And I guess it just never took
My foolish heart, like a foolish fish

Untitled Poem by Margie Morales

Moonlight stars in the sky it’s a perfect night, feels just right

My lover is near everything seems so clear as we touch
Music is playing the sensual notes of lovers in the night
As he engages closer, gently his caress so soft and warm

Love Revealed by Jeffery Brand

I come to you naked,
Vulnerable,
My dreams and fears
Resting on the surface of
My existence…
I’m awash in an ocean of insecurities…
Capsized in life’s waters,
I reach for you;
Struggling against the undertow,
Swimming feverishly towards your
Safe harbor…
Perhaps
I’m unjust in bestowing a moniker
Of savior upon you,
As you’re human and far from
Godly,
But your love
Is an unfamiliar salvation

Inter canem et lupum by Marco Casteleijn

There a dance, it is starting. Movements, infucatus,
sparks drawn across the darkening sky. Dancing
the night away in perpetual fluttering. Papilio
trying to catch the last rays of the sun. Aeternus eternus
are its movements. Seeing without seeing. Only being.

This faint light in our veins, there only for us to know.

A Shrubbery by Sheikha A.

The night growing into day is the way of the universe;
I wait, in this longing, for the permanence of the moon.

These ghost nights have possessed the ambience again
causing my being to rattle clueless in addiction, my eyes
carry dark bags of memories that do not escape by tears
or words to release me from the clogs of bellowing aches
reverberating in my shrunken veins withered of waiting
and wanting the glass to now appear as full empty.

Stolen Moments By M.A. Kastle

We steal away by moonlight.
Its shadows dancing between us, caught in the silver light we disappear.
Our eyes lock, forever this moment will stay.
A song plays softly while glasses clink with cheer.
Wine pours, laughter carries on the wind, masking our fear.

Couch by Saranya Wallooppillai

The couch smells.

And the pillows are

kind of lumpy.

And my nose itches because

we haven’t bothered to evict

the colony of dust bunnies underneath.

Time by Richard Heby

TIME
Love lost long ago
lives in far stars exploding
in a million years

Richard Heby

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My Pet Monkey by Suri Ben Noah

MY PET MONKEY

I came across a monkey so dear

So cute it was, I loved it truly

My love I expressed without fear

Though the monkey at times turned unruly

In Love by Jennifer Mallu

In Love

Lust is such a shallow word
For it cannot define such depth
The feeling deep within my soul
That comforts all emotions bereft

Only your words can open this heart

Only One Day by Janet Noble

Only One Day

 

It’s a soppy sappy day.

It’s a cheeky chappy day.

It’s a sissy kissy day.

It’s a busy dizzy day.

Inside I did by Matthew Eaton

I shook your hand when I should have hugged you
Did you notice, was it awkward?
I didn’t intend it, but inside I did.

I said goodbye instead of I love you
Did you care, was it noticed?
I didn’t understand it, but inside I did.

Love Starved by Richard “Tony” Held

“True love”
Is an exalted word
If you have lived your life
Never once having tasted it
And go
Starving
On

I Saw You Coming by Dan Ankers

I saw you coming a long, long way
away from me
So far I couldn’t tell the color of your hair
or how tall you’d be
You were just a simple glimmer of hope
inside the lens of my childhood telescope
(I knew you’d come,
you were always there with me)

Beautiful to Me by Dimitri Dow

When I was feeling down, the day was dark and dreary
That’s when I met you, my spirits lifted by your beauty.

It surrounds you with a gentle glow, as if crowned by a halo.
You say that you are fat and ugly but I swear it truly isn’t so.

Depth Over Distance by Amy Glamos

I will be rocks, under gushing river wild;
I will lie beneath your frantic flow.

I will bear the weight of current’s grace,
entombed in churning frigid waters.

I will watch as koi display their namesake,
flitting in effortless patterns of calico persuasion.

I will not draw a single breath but, instead,
bid the twisting chilly stream to fill the hollow.

I will content myself with where I’ve been,
if only to drown in your weightless gravity.

Cloud Shadows by David Gale Wright

As the rose opens
only to the sun –
so am I to you.

I follow your arc
Across azure sky –
facing radiance.

Falling In One’s Own Trap by Arushi Sachan

I fell for it

An exotic predator

Golden intriguing eyes

The powerful essence

Ripping me apart