Poet Laureate Contest Winner 6/21

[Master of Tacos]

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After a week of voting, with 8 votes for them, we have ourselves a winner for the June 2021 Poet Laureate Contest.

Join me in congratulating Liberdon on their victory with Elastic, as well as commiserations to Valentian Elysium for their entry, Over the Hills:

Elastic

Crush me
As I cower, defenseless
Shrinking from your wrath
You walk over, senseless
A flower crushed underfoot

Break me
As I am too brittle to bend
Made of stronger stuff than you
Snap the wood on which I depend
A pencil broken in half

Jab me
With your brutal words
Rake me
With your judgmental gaze
Hurt me,
Any way that you can

But beware my elasticity
For I am a rubber band,
made to withstand
Stretch me too far,
and I will sting to scar

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The Poet Laureate contest will be back in October, so keep up the creativity, Islanders!

[Valentian Elysium]

Congratulations Liberdon!

[Paffnia]

Congrats Liberdon!

[Liberdon]

Thank you Valentian Elysium and Paffnia!

[Aersoldorf]

Congratulations Liberdon. While I technically don’t consider anything a poem if it doesn’t rhyme, I do realize that I’m in the minority with that viewpoint, and it doesn’t change the fact that your words were still beautiful and moving. So well done and I look forward to seeing you in October.

[Donnee]

Nice job, Liberdon . Well thought out. I may try to dethrone you come October, so beware the "Minion Metrist"!

[Aersoldorf]

I like this entry the more I read it, haunting I suppose