Poetry competition CLOSED 4th March 2017 3:20am
WINNER
Anonymous
Anonymous
RUNNERS-UP:
JohnFeddeler
and Ahavati
Only in a Storm
OyateInyanNajin
Forum Posts: 29
Fire of Insight
1
Joined 16th Mar 2013Forum Posts: 29
THROUGH STEADY RAINS OF CONSCIOUS PURGE (8-29-90, San Diego, California)
mind seeded
clouds
shower blinded
prayers aloud
each heart
drops reach
newly fallen
touch
shatters gleaming
upon once
dry parched
empty
dusty streets
of every souls
forgotten feelings
unspoken hearts
now released
in quirkied
streams flushed
inner flowings
of post
flash floods
too long
suppressed
symbolic hidden
karmic meanings
as long
lost desert
spirits come
to finally
quench
at least
for now
their souls
deep aching
thirst
to drink
in peace
a seas
release of
liberated tears
in floods
which come
in heavy
rains of
conscious
purge
to wash
away countless
years
of such
sad lack
from seemingly
endless
desperation
clenched
deep in
futile hopes
stuck and
choking
in their
unspeakably
bone dry
throats
until the
weak tired
power blind
mind
behind mankinds
vast sad
legacy of
abominable
human crimes
against itself
and all
creations
broken unity
rails bitterly
out its
futile
self defensive
stance
in denial
of taking
any responsibility
for its
heinous
unconscionable
acts
then with
one brief
last
desperate breath
wastes its
final golden
opportunity
in a
pathetic
collective whimper
it suffocates
itself as
all it
once held
and thought
so all
important
now simply
drowns
with all
its fallen
grievous lies
of empty
artifice
away
set free
cleansed
at last
through
sudden
unexpected
heavy rains
of conscious
purges
sweet
release
let go
finally
from us
all
Written by OyateInyanNajin
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Leo_Sunset
Forum Posts: 43
Twisted Dreamer
1
Joined 18th Jan 2017Forum Posts: 43
Good to be alive
Whether rain or shine
It is good to be alive
Through pain and time
You will survive
Drowning out the weak
An example in the street
Whether rain or shine
Its good to be alive
It is good to be alive
Through pain and time
You will survive
Drowning out the weak
An example in the street
Whether rain or shine
Its good to be alive
Written by Leo_Sunset
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dejure
vick
Forum Posts: 2880
vick
Dangerous Mind
29
Joined 17th Aug 2015Forum Posts: 2880
Song of the Rain
.
thickend red drips dried on the cement,
rusty cuffs will wake my wounds after a night sleep
with every tear drop I sow a seed filled with hope
unlike soil, nothing grow on my pillow
some sleepless night ends with,
me hugging my knees
I do what the cuffs do.
peeling off the dry skin from my ankle,
and I listen to the rain on my metal roof
wind control the volume and vapour in my cote
fill in of thunder screening shady shows to the wall
I crawled inside my wings to cover my naked body, shivering
sitting on the black feathers
It's my vip pass to the show
my breathe keep it a little warm inside
I look at dancing shadows through the feathers
listening to the rain
then comes the verse
played by the drops at the edge of the roof
wind will blow a background harmony
conducting music to trees
leaves and branches play their solos
then the crickets join in, then the frogs,
special features by wolves and owls
it is my window of satisfaction
I feel refreshed, I feel calm, I feel empty...
then the alarms of crows
the rooster, final act of my show
I don't want the sun to rise
I cant bear the torrid air
comes from the iron grill above
I love the night
I love the rain
I await your visit
bring me a
new song
.
thickend red drips dried on the cement,
rusty cuffs will wake my wounds after a night sleep
with every tear drop I sow a seed filled with hope
unlike soil, nothing grow on my pillow
some sleepless night ends with,
me hugging my knees
I do what the cuffs do.
peeling off the dry skin from my ankle,
and I listen to the rain on my metal roof
wind control the volume and vapour in my cote
fill in of thunder screening shady shows to the wall
I crawled inside my wings to cover my naked body, shivering
sitting on the black feathers
It's my vip pass to the show
my breathe keep it a little warm inside
I look at dancing shadows through the feathers
listening to the rain
then comes the verse
played by the drops at the edge of the roof
wind will blow a background harmony
conducting music to trees
leaves and branches play their solos
then the crickets join in, then the frogs,
special features by wolves and owls
it is my window of satisfaction
I feel refreshed, I feel calm, I feel empty...
then the alarms of crows
the rooster, final act of my show
I don't want the sun to rise
I cant bear the torrid air
comes from the iron grill above
I love the night
I love the rain
I await your visit
bring me a
new song
.
Written by dejure
(vick)
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"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." -Langston Hughes
dejure
vick
Forum Posts: 2880
vick
Dangerous Mind
29
Joined 17th Aug 2015Forum Posts: 2880
kiss in the rain
heavier the heart gets
feelings get darker
when they come out
like a rain pouring down
onto the high mountains,
landslides destroying
everything you built…
(but a dark cloud
has its own beauty
when the shades of grey
filter the rays of the sun
bursting out from the
lighter sides of the cloud)
your worries imply the
passion you hid inside
your eyes bursting
the rays of the light
making me want to
dance in your rain
and gather the pieces
to make whole again
(storms are scary
thunder and lightnings
are loud and sharp
sometimes hit on the
weakest spot on a tree
and start a fire that
burns even in the rain)
I’m addicted to your
nervous breakdowns
I gamble to poke
and burst that heavy heart,
your words will pierce
my weakest spots
it will burn till the
storm calms down
and I will fight back…
(rain on barren lands
will fertile the soil,
landslide from mountains
will bring the new seeds
a new hope was found
only in a storm)
but sometimes
I won't fight
when your tears
pouring down
on my chest
I lift your head and,
kiss in the rain
as a submission to the comp Only in a Storm
Written by dejure
(vick)
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Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Forum Posts: 5134
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
154
Joined 9th Nov 2015 Forum Posts: 5134
Ahavati
Tams
Forum Posts: 16923
Tams
Tyrant of Words
123
Joined 11th Apr 2015Forum Posts: 16923
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Forum Posts: 5134
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
154
Joined 9th Nov 2015 Forum Posts: 5134
Urn
As ashes drift by overhead
From chimney stack a mile away,
I slowly walk the parapet
That circles marker, stone & grave.
There are no tears belong to me
With all my grief contained within
When soon the coming rain will be.
For now I hold here in my hands
An urn of cradled numb entombed
As empty as are all my sins,
Of phantom ache of phantom womb.
A mounting pall makes all things plain
And gives complexion to the dead
Who pace among the dates & names
To find a mother for my son.
While stillborn thunder's lightning rod
Of blinding flash that now ordains
The sudden pitch of driving rains.
It is for me while lain among
The faery buds & feathered grass
As natural for an urn to spend
Of time eternal till I pass.
(Not an entry.)
Hepcat61
geoff cat
Forum Posts: 1028
geoff cat
Dangerous Mind
33
Joined 27th Nov 2015Forum Posts: 1028
The Coming Gale
(an erotic pantoum)
I see your eyes betray the coming gale
I sense the risen tide, the rain swept sea
Your flowing harbor I so deeply sail
Those saddled spurs that sure encircle me
I sense the risen tide, the rain swept sea,
It keeps their rocking long into the night
Those saddled spurs that sure encircle me
Yet keep your labors hidden from my sight
It keeps their rocking long into the night
With shudders sent from waterline to mast
Yet keeps your labors hidden from my sight
From sacred coves where silken spells are cast
With shudders sent from waterline to mast
In final crashing waves capsizing all
From sacred coves where silken spells are cast
That come like hurricanes, squall after squall
In final crashing waves capsizing all,
Your flowing harbor I so deeply sail
That come like hurricanes, squall after squall
I see your eyes betray the coming gale.
(Not an entry for the competition, but thought I'd post here anyway)
- my first pantoum, Jade led me to the website that showed me how -
(an erotic pantoum)
I see your eyes betray the coming gale
I sense the risen tide, the rain swept sea
Your flowing harbor I so deeply sail
Those saddled spurs that sure encircle me
I sense the risen tide, the rain swept sea,
It keeps their rocking long into the night
Those saddled spurs that sure encircle me
Yet keep your labors hidden from my sight
It keeps their rocking long into the night
With shudders sent from waterline to mast
Yet keeps your labors hidden from my sight
From sacred coves where silken spells are cast
With shudders sent from waterline to mast
In final crashing waves capsizing all
From sacred coves where silken spells are cast
That come like hurricanes, squall after squall
In final crashing waves capsizing all,
Your flowing harbor I so deeply sail
That come like hurricanes, squall after squall
I see your eyes betray the coming gale.
(Not an entry for the competition, but thought I'd post here anyway)
- my first pantoum, Jade led me to the website that showed me how -
drone
Forum Posts: 2275
Tyrant of Words
10
Joined 3rd Sep 2011 Forum Posts: 2275
Gia
Amongst the rain
there are tears
that cry out in pain
when they drip
upon those
to vain to see
that the storm
that cometh
will break their belief
that she doesn't
exist
Amongst the rain
there are tears
that cry out in pain
when they drip
upon those
to vain to see
that the storm
that cometh
will break their belief
that she doesn't
exist
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Forum Posts: 5134
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
154
Joined 9th Nov 2015 Forum Posts: 5134
Revised below, this is not an entry.👇