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slipalong
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Lipsticks and Perfume

Grace
IDryad
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Poetry Contest

Cheating Hearts and Guilty Souls
Have you ever cheated on someone who loved you? Or cheated by someone you thought loved you? What did you do?
No word limit
two poems per poet max
no collaborations
title your poem please.

Thank You

snugglebuck
Dangerous Mind
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Ann

Ann
You left me a little over a year ago to be with another
Someone they call ‘The Father of Waters’
Do you realize how much I hurt when I look upon the face
Of the man who replaced me as your friend and lover?

But despite your betrayal, if you came walking back through my door
I'd take you in my arms, forgive you, and love you even more

It will be a little over a two years ago my love succumbed to mental illness and threw herself into the cold Mississippi.  She’s gone from my life, but will forever remain in my heart.
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Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Flybird


By tender hands,

   Placing her upon


A trembling limb,

   To be blessed by


The mercy of Him.

   Uplifting her


To hope again,

   To fly once more


To the treetops,

   To open her heart,


And let go the pain.



Written when the one I’d been with for several years called to say he’d given his heart to another for as long as she wanted it.  Just like that.


Copyright©️Jade Pandora 2018.  All Rights Reserved

eswaller
Dangerous Mind
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The Real Lover

His hands that no longer want to roam and discover
My body anymore do not have any problems touching
Hers. When he lays awake at night he thinks of his lover
And not me. All of the times he thinks of her clutching
 
The sheets and his back while I am far from his mind.
The scratches and scars he says are from the gym, not
From the times her nails dug into his skin that remind
Him of the times he made her cum. I am a blood clot
 
Because you never wanted me. When I smile all you can
Think of is hers. When I laugh you can just hear hers
In your head. Darling, it was not fate when you began
Thinking of a good life with her, but she is not yours
 
In real life. She is perfection to you while I will just
Come to realize I will be second best. You always
Think of some other girl who is not me. It took trust,
But you want to throw it away for her. She will amaze
 
You every single day while I am someone too boring
And vanilla. She is just the right amount of spice
And sugar that you need. The rain pouring
With questions and wondering why my price
 
Is cheap to you. Why do you want her over me?  
You cannot breathe without her and yet you
Say that I am your life. I think she holds the key
To your heart while I am someone to just screw.
Written by eswaller
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ElrondSirfalas
Fire of Insight
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Sol Luna Endymion

It's happened again
cupid has cycled his laughing cast
Without discretion, displayed in viscous currents

One man finds a mate
through an easy game of chase the scar,
Lazy frowning and statued emotion

Her eyes sparkled in such a kindred flame
Artificially, just as the sad boy does
rebounding desperation on both parts

He as the hermit,with a minimal compassion
She played the role for all affection
Drove her half mad, cutting lonely

A last chance to see him to the dance
pupils strayed off, eating the smoke
For a couple months, I think, maybe more

Distance was death for the loving seperation
Caring is old, the premature pleasure maker
Chakra cats and Vampire disease

Chased with blood, drunk on a rhapsody
The girl dumped the filthy junkie baggage-
Humbly fornicating with a more fitting fellow

Similar in grace and taste
Aspirations and dependence on denser levels;
Red to black or black and blue

With a new foundation built
Companion demolition, scheduled for certain
Love sued the suit and Brothers close at heart

It`s happened again
Cupid has cycled his laughing cast
Without discretion, displayed in viscous currents
Written by ElrondSirfalas
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Grace
IDryad
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Thank you snugglebuck, Jade, eswaller, ElrondSirfalas and ISawTheDevil for your entries.

summultima
uma
Dangerous Mind
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strange(r) code 1902.            scream n scribble

 
 
 
 
 
 
beneath the silences of a paling tongue in shudders  
and somewhere beyond their long winding fixations  
is that a tearing in slit-throat in smothering muteness  
this passage client in the wilting, or a rarity gravityless  
intermittently pain pulsating pulldown of that tender  
jugular notch in shivers rolling in dead slow leeches till  
depths unknown, only needing more as it strikes back  
much more  
 
 
 
once,  it was you          seemingly in  
          taken in of a dooming    
Atlantis,   our Pangaea an illusional mass  
held hopeful in the fissuring oceans  
 
 
now, it’s you again           fictionally  in  
   undercover progressive lenses  ease    
your guillotine eyes  doubly razoring in  
stigmatic   sarcastic blows  
 those  atrophying  lashes above vilify  
your evasive tendencies,  in soft talks  
you skillful stranger in sophistication  
as if intensities are either in flaws  
or notional or a theatrical timepass  
 
 
 
 
 
in another parallel now,   nowhere you are  
I infinitely bear the karmic consequences  
of your absence, of your earlier allowances    
in an ever erosive pain frame of no deaths  
I wear your skins in hunt again and again    
                         still in repose a discrete spark inner  
                                                    in infernal intensity  
that which your covert senses typically skip  
that which forever h[a]unts  you    stranger    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Written by summultima (uma)
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summultima
uma
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Grace
IDryad
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Thank you Uma for your entries.

eswaller
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No Physical Cheating

I am sorry if you had to keep turning to him
Instead of it being me. I know I have not been
The best in giving you all of the attention and
Love that you always deserve, full to the brim,
But what is it about him? Are his hands clean?
Does he protect your heart? He will understand

You better than I could ever do. I know that you
Are too good of a woman to physically cheat on
Me, but the emotional pain of it all is way worse.
Maybe I did not do enough to deserve you. I knew
That this was not going to work. He should fawn
Over you like he’s your number one fan. A verse

And many words that could describe his love for
You more than I could ever express. Every knot
Should be loosening not becoming tighter like
A noose around your neck. He opens every door
While I just kept you standing in the same spot
With tears running down your face. A strike

Of lightening. No one ever deserves that kind
Of pain. You deserve every smile and embrace
Because a woman like you should get what
You always give. I hope that he will remind
You every day how special you are. Your face
Should be filled with light like an angel and shut

Out the darkness like what I brought to your life.
You deserve to be someone’s center and wife.
Written by eswaller
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Grace
IDryad
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Thank you eswaller for your entry.

Divya
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Because he loved and only loved!

She couldn't understand
what he wrote
because it wasn't just a love letter
 
He never disclosed
what he wrote
because it wasn't just a poem
 
He secluded
to avoid her thought
but it wasn't just a thought
 
He lost
the so-called battle of love
because he never considered it a battle....
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Grace
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Thank you Divya for your entry.

AtoMikbomb
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...I don't want these hands...

...oh...          
no I don't          
         
And I would hacksaw          
gnaw          
each nocuous          
nightingale nail          
from it's shoals          
it's risque riverbed          
it's fleshy fitted          
fingerhead          
to backtrack down          
every shirtless back          
they've dared - in dream          
to roam          
and comb their          
shameful handfuls          
'round          
         
...no...          
I don't want these eyes          
my erring          
staring          
glaring pirate pair of iris          
spyglass emeralds          
unsettled in their          
socket settings          
roving rifles          
of fiendish green          
         
...you should know...    
...you should know...          
they should be blown          
in whole          
out the back of my skull      
bloodstones from a blue whale blowhole        
         
I don't want this heart          
throwing thoughts of          
men          
like Campbell's cans          
clattering into shopping carts          
         
---          
         
Vagrant vices          
splice my volition          
exponentially
         
pages pile up          
miles of onion skin bible          
paper          
choky cellars stocked and locked          
X's scored          
on my bottomless          
clipboard;          
tabloid trespasses          
dyed laceleaf red          
         
Reverentially penned          
leaflets laced with lechery          
rustle - roughed-up moth wings        
rouge with regret...          
...and it's clear          
that they'd burn          
cleaner          
than my newsprint conscience
Written by AtoMikbomb
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