Poetry competition CLOSED 2nd October 2017 9:51pm
WINNER
Anonymous
Anonymous
RUNNER-UP:
Phoenix_Risen
Immortality
Who Wants To Live For Ever?
I have had the offer
Of a live with the immortal
Hosts in heaven
I’ve been threatened
With eternal damnation
In the bowels of Hell
The zombie apocalypse
Immortality as a dead person
Dracula offered me
Immortality as a vampire
But his offer really sucked
I do not seek immortality
I do not want immortality
It might be cool for a few
Centuries but you’d have
To watch everyone you
Love, age and die. That
Would seriously take its toll
It wouldn’t be long before
You’d pray for death
The biggest problem with
Immortality would be
Boredom
I have had the offer
Of a live with the immortal
Hosts in heaven
I’ve been threatened
With eternal damnation
In the bowels of Hell
The zombie apocalypse
Immortality as a dead person
Dracula offered me
Immortality as a vampire
But his offer really sucked
I do not seek immortality
I do not want immortality
It might be cool for a few
Centuries but you’d have
To watch everyone you
Love, age and die. That
Would seriously take its toll
It wouldn’t be long before
You’d pray for death
The biggest problem with
Immortality would be
Boredom
Immortal
Today is my birthday but I’m so tired of living
Forty decades I’ve been sobbing and weeping
Four hundred years are not so forgiving
After four centuries time is just leaping
The gift bestowed upon me is also a curse
To walk the earth seeing my loved ones die
It’s an affliction that cannot be reversed
If everyone passes on, then why can’t I?
This forsaken spell has me heartbroken
As the signs of aging in others takes its toll
But the curse in me is a continuity unbroken
Leaving me empty with no one to console
And the hardest thing is to fall in love
Knowing that someday it will all dissever
Until the afterlife somewhere up above
Because who really wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
If I’m going to live all alone
When the time passes by
And to everyone I say goodbye
Then off for another century on my own
Today is my birthday but I’m so tired of living
Forty decades I’ve been sobbing and weeping
Four hundred years are not so forgiving
After four centuries time is just leaping
The gift bestowed upon me is also a curse
To walk the earth seeing my loved ones die
It’s an affliction that cannot be reversed
If everyone passes on, then why can’t I?
This forsaken spell has me heartbroken
As the signs of aging in others takes its toll
But the curse in me is a continuity unbroken
Leaving me empty with no one to console
And the hardest thing is to fall in love
Knowing that someday it will all dissever
Until the afterlife somewhere up above
Because who really wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
If I’m going to live all alone
When the time passes by
And to everyone I say goodbye
Then off for another century on my own
Our bodies are but rented and used on borrowed time. They can give out any day without a reason or a rhyme.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust even the bible says that's a must. Nothing however limits our soul once our bodies are gone we still have a role. The death of our body is not fatality. Our soul is our claim to immortality.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust even the bible says that's a must. Nothing however limits our soul once our bodies are gone we still have a role. The death of our body is not fatality. Our soul is our claim to immortality.
"immortality brings infinite pain"
Immortality brings infinite pain
Death brings relief to life with her gentle touch
Gifting the body with escape from a cage made of old age
Imprisoned by failing organs and broken dreams
Who has such happiness they would want to stay alive?
Let me steal that life for one day, just in case
there is an after-life that survives beyond a box and grave
But is eternal awareness truly immortality?
To exist forever with no way to touch beauty
Is no different than the life God enslaved me within
An eternity of loneliness is what I long to end
Instead, I choose to live in my poetry
For as long as my words can survive on paper
As long as computer screens can display a piece of me
Then upon my demise I will rest in peace eternally
(9/19/2017)
jj
Immortality brings infinite pain
Death brings relief to life with her gentle touch
Gifting the body with escape from a cage made of old age
Imprisoned by failing organs and broken dreams
Who has such happiness they would want to stay alive?
Let me steal that life for one day, just in case
there is an after-life that survives beyond a box and grave
But is eternal awareness truly immortality?
To exist forever with no way to touch beauty
Is no different than the life God enslaved me within
An eternity of loneliness is what I long to end
Instead, I choose to live in my poetry
For as long as my words can survive on paper
As long as computer screens can display a piece of me
Then upon my demise I will rest in peace eternally
(9/19/2017)
jj
"No End To The Flesh "
I want to be mortal forever
To know my life is mine and mine alone
No end to the flesh
Life over death
No soul to set free
Or apples to tempt me
I do not want to rise into Heaven
Or fall to some torturous place
What I want is to feel
To taste
To smell
And most of all
I want to love
Never ending love
For all I have ever known
Is love never begun
When finally it comes
I don't want to let go
I want to hold on
I want to be mortal forever
(9/23/2003)
JJ
ETERNITY
hope
most do for eternal existance
for souls to be reborn with changed fate
when rebirth comes...
human
like petals will still wither and dry
no matter the struggle time will never be kind
it'll catch up and when it does...
infinity
comes as a gift born by death
bestowed upon the fallen
a place to go to after all is said and done
souls
are immortals that never dies
we believe it to be true
and it becomes so
truth
reperesents human's will
our choices paved the way
for realization and discovery
eternity
perhaps exist, come to think of it
but it is not a place that we can locate
but a burning desire that can never be unlit
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most do for eternal existance
for souls to be reborn with changed fate
when rebirth comes...
human
like petals will still wither and dry
no matter the struggle time will never be kind
it'll catch up and when it does...
infinity
comes as a gift born by death
bestowed upon the fallen
a place to go to after all is said and done
souls
are immortals that never dies
we believe it to be true
and it becomes so
truth
reperesents human's will
our choices paved the way
for realization and discovery
eternity
perhaps exist, come to think of it
but it is not a place that we can locate
but a burning desire that can never be unlit
©All Rights Reserved
Written by OxyMoronicMe
(G.L.)
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Heaven on Earth
~Heaven on Earth~
Life after death yes I'm still a beautiful mess...
Though I've had some time to rest, a few things to get off my chest...
Feeling like I've been through every fkd-up twisted test!
Not getting rid of me, I'll try not to be a pest!
Seat of the Soul a long journey to whole...
Lose some time, lose your mind...
Then sit and write this rhyme...
Got my chin up, still never dropped a dime!
Everything came back just in time...
In the driver's seat, I take back the Throne of my Hive!
Looked around to see all the shit that didn't jive...
Lost my shoe, been screwed, black & blued, even tattooed, now here I sit in the nude...
Can't be reversed, I now see with the 1st., at least I didn't end up in a hearse!
Praying it's over & that I've seen the worst...
Had to forget a little bit of who... sittin thinkin what the fk did I do?
Who am I, who the fk are you?
None of that matters now, in the past to remain...
I'm back and didn't completely go insane!
Sittin in the God seat feeling so drained..
Never again the same, no longer attached to the string of a purse!
The next step can't be rehearsed, nor coerced...
No more Sin, soon to meet my twin!
FLAME OF FIRE so ready to quench the ultimate desire..
No longer alone, nor feeling incomplete!
Blessed I would be to share a seat!
Seeds of True Love waiting to be sown..
Totally Complete, at Home!
The sweetest thing anyone could have ever known!
It's just about time, there'll be no more reverse.
Bless us all as we step into "Our" Heaven On Earth...
By Naomi Jane 09/21/2017
"In memory of Mom" ~ Your 'Only I have always been so proud to Be~ of You, as you are of "Me"... Love you! Without you I wouldn't of had the "Eyes to See" <3 XO
Life after death yes I'm still a beautiful mess...
Though I've had some time to rest, a few things to get off my chest...
Feeling like I've been through every fkd-up twisted test!
Not getting rid of me, I'll try not to be a pest!
Seat of the Soul a long journey to whole...
Lose some time, lose your mind...
Then sit and write this rhyme...
Got my chin up, still never dropped a dime!
Everything came back just in time...
In the driver's seat, I take back the Throne of my Hive!
Looked around to see all the shit that didn't jive...
Lost my shoe, been screwed, black & blued, even tattooed, now here I sit in the nude...
Can't be reversed, I now see with the 1st., at least I didn't end up in a hearse!
Praying it's over & that I've seen the worst...
Had to forget a little bit of who... sittin thinkin what the fk did I do?
Who am I, who the fk are you?
None of that matters now, in the past to remain...
I'm back and didn't completely go insane!
Sittin in the God seat feeling so drained..
Never again the same, no longer attached to the string of a purse!
The next step can't be rehearsed, nor coerced...
No more Sin, soon to meet my twin!
FLAME OF FIRE so ready to quench the ultimate desire..
No longer alone, nor feeling incomplete!
Blessed I would be to share a seat!
Seeds of True Love waiting to be sown..
Totally Complete, at Home!
The sweetest thing anyone could have ever known!
It's just about time, there'll be no more reverse.
Bless us all as we step into "Our" Heaven On Earth...
By Naomi Jane 09/21/2017
"In memory of Mom" ~ Your 'Only I have always been so proud to Be~ of You, as you are of "Me"... Love you! Without you I wouldn't of had the "Eyes to See" <3 XO
Written by FlameOfFire
(NaomiJ)
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Anonymous
Related submission no longer exists.
Until You Are No More
You were like any other human
In the most basic sense.
They dug a hole and placed you in it
When you were forty, and now all that remains
Are your bones.
If “mortal” means your flesh has rotted,
Then you were.
But everyone knows your name, your life, your work.
Even today’s children sing “Imagine” and “Help!,”
despite not knowing how the words sounded
when they came from your mouth.
The people, they speak of you every day.
They remember you, your words, your music, your contribution,
And they will never forget.
Your body did not live forever, but your legacy will.
So until your work means nothing anymore,
Until the name “Lennon” ceases to pass lips,
You are immortal.
In the most basic sense.
They dug a hole and placed you in it
When you were forty, and now all that remains
Are your bones.
If “mortal” means your flesh has rotted,
Then you were.
But everyone knows your name, your life, your work.
Even today’s children sing “Imagine” and “Help!,”
despite not knowing how the words sounded
when they came from your mouth.
The people, they speak of you every day.
They remember you, your words, your music, your contribution,
And they will never forget.
Your body did not live forever, but your legacy will.
So until your work means nothing anymore,
Until the name “Lennon” ceases to pass lips,
You are immortal.
Written by collarfilled
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