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poet Anonymous

Poetry Contest

write a poem about the mask you wear

mjs211
MikeTheEngineer
Dangerous Mind
United States 20awards
Joined 22nd Aug 2010
Forum Posts: 1572

The Masquerade

A masquerade ball for the ages!
Tuxedoed and ball-gowned
we picked up our masks:
I wore Comedy,
and you, Tragedy.
What perfect foils
for the perfect couple.
When we arrived
we fell to drinking,
as is the custom for people
hiding life behind the tension-lines
on their faces.

And I, being glad
that the alcohol and friends
and the bantering laughs
had me pinned into the moment,
reveled in the respite
from everything outside it.
I prescribed myself
that usual over-the-counter remedy
of beer and a friendly crowd
between her and I.
I was the spitting image of Puck
(though as the night wore on
I became a bit more like Nick Bottom).

And when they found you
crying in the bathroom,
they pulled off your mask
to see your face
and the pain within.
As if they hoped
they wouldn't see Tragedy
upon tragedy. What fools,
who came to Macbeth
expecting survivors!

It's odd to realize
that we hid our faces
behind our souls that night.

siphondarkness
Levi
Dangerous Mind
United States 14awards
Joined 6th Apr 2011
Forum Posts: 2026

The monster wears the mask
Camouflage to hide
No one knows
what lurks on the inside
He pulls them in
like ever great predator
He hurts them
with a pain that endures forever
When he looked in a mirror
He couldn't believe what he seen
When the monster looked in a mirror
What he seen was me

poet Anonymous

i liked how your lines flowed and the story you told

poet Anonymous

a very good story within a good twist of fate

opheliac
Dangerous Mind
9awards
Joined 29th Aug 2009
Forum Posts: 2122

am i allowed to submit previously published poems?

poet Anonymous

yes unless it won

Viddax
Lord Viddax
Guardian of Shadows
United Kingdom 31awards
Joined 10th Oct 2009
Forum Posts: 6672

Less a poem about the mask I wear and more about the one the rest of us/you and society wears. Going against the grain as is my wont.

Metaphorical reverse masked masquerade

Phalanxes of false faces
Courts of camouflages
Endless appearances
And dozens of disguises

We all wear masks they say
In every place that we play
Shifting changing by day
This seems the modern way

Facades on Facebook
Masquearades on Myspace
Your veil on Youtube
Ingenius guises on the internet

Facades of false faces
Cretinous camoflage
Annoying counter-appearances
And damned disguises

Masks are fleeting you see
Forgotten reality; agree?
So flee! Flee ! Flee!
For I hide behind the
Real 'true' masked me.

poet Anonymous

lord viddax
a very touching poem writen so true to what goes on around us

rayheinrich
Death Plane for Teddy
Tyrant of Words
Canada 32awards
Joined 4th Dec 2009
Forum Posts: 4409

[font=Courier New][size=2]
  < double-embossed Kevlar face shield model 37 >
       
 it's Texas
 (on the bridge to Galveston)
 and my
 double-embossed Kevlar face shield
 (model 37)
 wraps my face
 as my hand reaches out
 and opens a door to the east coast
 just wide enough
 to shout through
 and i
 shout anything that might stop you
 but you're just a picture
 wrapped across my face
 a picture
 busy telling me:    

   "your face
    all pieces now
    gray, white, black
    i spent my afternoons
    cutting us
    like a movie
    and the evenings
    spreading us out    
   
    great reels of us    
    trying to line them up    
    fit them    
    fix them    
    the beginnings    
    the ends"    
   
       - - -

poet Anonymous

Here is my entry... I'm a bit rusty...
This is my first poetry attempt in quite a while



Ha! A mask is for the childish
I am beyond my years
What sir, do you think
I must hide or fear?

Façade is not my way
Beneath me is where it lies
Smiles never break my face
Unless sincerity resides


I cannot be bothered
I’ve been through hell and back
Traveled half a mile into heaven
Walked the less ridden track

So I’ve no need for a silly mask!
My eyes have become AWOL
If you don’t understand these words I spell
Then I have fooled you all…





ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
Tyrant of Words
United Kingdom 28awards
Joined 10th Oct 2010
Forum Posts: 1347

The mask falls,
crumbles, breaks,
my competitive facade.
I cannot beat them
and with that knowledge
I melt into the cracks
of a broken Memphis,
into the cracks
of a belittled hypercondriac
with nothing more than a dusty
glass cupboard that was never filled
with the trophies
my mask had once imagined
as a child.

poet Anonymous

lemmy caution

not to sure if i understand it but overall a good write

poet Anonymous

autumn-018
a nice flow i liked all your lines

poet Anonymous

literay antiquity

i liked these lines you used  here
the mask falls,
crumbles, breaks
my competitive facade

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