“First & Final Word” Poetry & Lyrics Challenge Winners
Thank you for celebrating National Poetry Month with Dictionary.com! We invited you to write an original short poem that started and ended with the same word.
Top honors goes to Bob Gidcumb, who will receive a $150 gift card and Dictionary.com swag! Alesia Bischoff and Luke Harvey, our second- and third-place winners, will each be rewarded a $100 gift card along with Dictionary.com-themed prizes.
Read their poems below!
First place
“This Week’s News in the Northwoods”
Stained glass is my window where the first fly butted all afternoon.
All winter I had waited on the thaw, watched February robins peck at frozen green.
But spring has always had its scavengers. He bumped and buzzed against the pane.
I watched him, rolled my Newsweek tight, and squished him where he stood.
Outside the world goes green. I left the window stained.
–Bob Gidcumb
Second place
He is a little brown old dog with no teeth
who enjoys attacking the fingers as if they are fine sausages.
He never has to leave, does he?
–Alesia Bischoff
Third place
Leaves, that from the sticky buds unfurl,
In five months time to earth will whirl:
Sepia memories of a world
No longer green with promise.
But even winter leaves…
–Luke Harvey
