Poetry competition CLOSED 8th August 2018 10:26pm
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Gahddess_Worship (Osomajestuoso)
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RUNNERS-UP: ImperfectedStone and Jade-Pandora

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Personification.

RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
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So Jade in with another.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful entries on this.

We have 2 days left on the clock... Calling last entries.

Thanks guys

Al

takis1917
Fire of Insight
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Joined 6th Aug 2017
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Bed Book Nagging

Eyelids heavy, on downward slide.
Tired, slender fingers close the book and...

"What are you doing?"

"I'm exhausted... Eyes closing...
Going to sleep... Tomorrow..." And

her left hand holding the book,
swings to the nightstand...

"Stop!... I can't believe it...
You can't get passed page nine..."

Swing never completed,
book and hand left hanging,
now on return path...

"I told you, I'm tired!..."

"Tired?...
You've read me ten, fifteen times, maybe more...
From start to finish, in one sitting...
As many hours as it took..."

"You were my favorite..."

"I were?... I were???... And, now, I'm not?..."

"Don't get excited... I didn't mean that..."

It felt her hands tremble... It trembled, too...

"Come clean, then... The truth...
I'm an old book, I can handle it..."

She sighed, holding it tight against her breasts...

"Truth is
you're not what you used to be...
No more offerings of new discoveries...
No more epiphanies...
No more hints of hidden meanings..."

She sighed, again...
It paused long...

"Fair enough...
Go to sleep...
If you ever need me, you know the bookcase spot.
Between my siblings, "House Of The Dead" and "Crime & Punishment"...
Written by takis1917
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Gahddess_Worship
Osomajestuoso
Tyrant of Words
United States 38awards
Joined 21st Aug 2013
Forum Posts: 839

COLD ONE OR STEAM'IN

Barring negatives
We are comfort purveyors
Meet the mug family
Written by Gahddess_Worship (Osomajestuoso)
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Gahddess_Worship
Osomajestuoso
Tyrant of Words
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INVOLUNTARY ACCOMPLICE

Oh to have been born suspenders
To support trousers without any shame
Instead I’m a belt that frequently renders
painful screams when wielded to maim.
 
I keep up the pants of a sometimes bully.
When he’s drunk, as a weapon I’m used.
If sober from loops he rarely removes me.
‘Cept in anger a loved one is bruised.
 
History used as justification,
“My daddy beat me black and blue.”
I was passed down by that generation
to ensure whippings continue.
 
Doomed to recall every child’s tear
Every cruel beater’s hundred-proof chuckle.
The remorse I feel, yes, is severe.
Eclipsed only by that of the buckle.
Written by Gahddess_Worship (Osomajestuoso)
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mysteriouslady
Tyrant of Words
United States 15awards
Joined 11th Aug 2012
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Dirty Dollar

Im small, paper thin
to be exact

Yet to over a billion
I am larger than life itself

I am sticky and unclean
yet I am laundered every day

And even after that
I am still considered dirty

Kinda like sex
Only dirtier, I hear

I have issues
just like you

Im always there
good and bad

Child support or drugs
mortgage or hookers

I am at the end of every deal
be it legal or shady

I make shit happen
smiles,  wide and long

I am the almighty Dirty Dollar

I make it all happen
I make it all go 'round

I know what you will do for me
and I know what you will do without me

Dirty or clean

I am the ruler of your world
I own you


Not sure if this fits the bill. I tired. If not, I shall remove. lol. ~ML

Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 9th Nov 2015
Forum Posts: 5134

A Singular Book📖

 
A brilliant career we had calved,  
The places master and I roamed.

Memories... are all that I have,  
While wedged between brothers I’ve known.  
 
The years have not gone very well  
Since master’s fortunes have all flown.  
 
He looks for answers from the shelves,  
His’try, as books like me have shown  
 
Is bound to repeat, as he delves,  
He prays that his luck will come home.  
 
There’s ‘neigh can be done by the elves,  
On pages, words written in stone.  
 
Though hundreds of me by ourselves,  
Both master and I stand alone.
Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
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RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
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Oh wow!

Thank you for joining us Takis and Mysterious! Both awesome entries.

And more from Mr G and Jade

Thank you guys!

Gahddess_Worship
Osomajestuoso
Tyrant of Words
United States 38awards
Joined 21st Aug 2013
Forum Posts: 839

STOLEN MOMENT

Benvenuto!
My name is Francesca.
I am ecstatic!
Finally another leather handbag
shares my shelf.
I’ve been forced to associate
with synthetics.
What brings you to the thrift store?
How horribly sad, I’m sorry.
 
Me? It’s a long story.
Your right, we’ve got time.
I’ll skip my early years…
Except to say, I was born in Italy.
I was a proud sacchetto di mano.  
to a rich San Francisco socialite
Until that fateful day.
when my life and status
were irrevocably altered.
 
One beautiful Spring morning
in Pacific Heights, shopping.
Our most favorite pastime.
I was the star of her matching ensemble.
Upon leaving our posh grocery
A brutish character quickly approached
I was violently yanked
from off my mistresses shoulder
Her screams scared me so…
Ho urlato, AIUTO! AIUTO!
 
The beast ran so fast!
And oh the sweat…
“Don’t you dare stain me”
I boldly screamed.
All of a sudden
We were flying through the air.
His hand set me free.
I hit the pavement hard.
But I didn’t spill a single item.
No “thank you,” by the way.
 
Safely in the arms of my lady again
But only physically.
From that time on
she looked at me differently, coldly.
I would forever be the painful reminder
of that awful violation.
Initially shoved to the back of the closet.
Then callously dropped off here.
 
“Mommy, mommy can I have that bag?
It’s perfect for my dolls and dress-up”
Oh just splendid!
Well I’m off...sorry to leave you.
The synthetics are good people, actually.
You’ll be fine.
CIAO!
Written by Gahddess_Worship (Osomajestuoso)
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Gahddess_Worship
Osomajestuoso
Tyrant of Words
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Too many words I know. But can you ever have too many words, really? I had fun with this one as with all others.

wallyroo92
Tyrant of Words
United States 154awards
Joined 11th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1869

Parker

They were my graduation presents,
I was barely eighteen back then,
But I was free to go on a new journey,
With my imagination and new luxury pens.

I only used them for creative writing,
The way they glided was graceful and elegant,
The words seemed to flow out of my hands,
Fired, inspired and never hesitant

The silver barrel looked was so sophisticated,
I felt an air of refinement whenever I wrote,
The way it swayed it seemed to dance,
A romance in itself I can almost gloat.

That freshmen year I discovered so much,
I felt a stirring when my Parker composed,
It was as if I was writing to my future self,
Letters through time now transposed.

carpemax
Lost Thinker
United States 1awards
Joined 6th Mar 2018
Forum Posts: 20

-State of Normalcy-

Punk/Thrash Metal/Rap


Too much interference. There's static in my head.
You will feel all my pain. Can you feel the coming dread?  
Read between the lines as my middle fingers bleed.  
Back away before you die, you better take heed.  
  
-No time for patience...No time for peace.  
-No time for kindness...Your life is on lease.  
-No time for love...No time for tweats.  
-No time for passion and I got no time for creeps.  
   
So, you say your life's unfair. Well, who the fuck cares?  
You drift into my mind deranged, you'll see my fangs bared.  
And, cross your path with mine you better look the other way.  
'Cause since I hit the street it's been another fucked-up day.  
   
-Don't care about no color...Don't care about your views.  
-Don't care for you glances, so I'll beat you black and blue.  
-Don't you understand you're nothin'? Is your brain so fuckin' crip?  
-Don't care about your 'dis, so eat you own shit.  
   
We be...tossed and lost and smokin' dope, watching shit TV.  
So brainwashed in our daily rote, survival is our creed.  
But, once you had some-somethin' and be takin' from your pound,  
the loss is boss and fuck-you too, it's gone to feed the hounds.  
   
-There's nothin' left for you...There's nothin' left but more.  
-They chew you up and spit you out, those weasely fuckin' whores.  
-They look at us as sheep in the lair of all 'Dem creeps.  
-So when they out and come about it's all about the leash.  
   
Now, I've caught this fuckin' flu from this sick society.  
'Cause the State of Normalcy is all idiocracy.  
The point of no return is dead and now is buried deep.  
'Cause 'Dem fuckin' politicians sown what we all must eat.  
   
-Nothin' makes no sense, no more, especially in D.C.  
-Nothin' is our hope as creeps dine and sip their tea.  
-Nothin' seems to matter...Nothin' do they share.  
-Nothin' gonna come our way, you better be aware.  
-No time for patience...Always time for war.  
-No time for kindness...Look at all the gore.  
-No time for love...No time for tweats.  
-No time for passion. It's time to beat the Creeps.
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Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Walking stick: a cane by any other name

It was your dad, the reason why
We both exist still to this day.
I always saw you, wee small fry,
Your tiny hands to grasp & play.
 
As you became a graceful she
The years that took him to the fringe.
And then I saw as plain could be,
He had an angel care for him.
 
Like of the tree where I came from,
There is a purpose meant for me.
And as when you fell, a spring plum,
But not how it was meant to be.
 
I’ve never let you see me cry,
Not since the day you can’t recall.
He didn’t know in all that while
How hurt you had been from that fall.
 
Remember when he switched the canes?
Yours was pretty, I had strength & brains.
He gave me to you ‘cause he saw
We two would help each other walk,
 
That’s how he knew when we would talk.
‘Cause even though he hadn’t long,
You needed me to make you strong,
To be there for him, not a clock.
 
I’m glad you always keep me near
So even as you sleep I hear
His voice, that grand ol’ carpenter,
Reminding me, ‘Take care of her’.
Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
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shaniadittee7
Avengers
Strange Creature
Bangladesh
Joined 29th Jan 2018
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Related submission no longer exists.

RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1257

Thank you to everyone who jumped in and got involved in this comp.

There's a lot of poetry here. I'd like to do another read through and I'll be back to announce results in a couple of days.

This really was fun

Thank you!

Al

RevolutionAL
Alistair Plint
Dangerous Mind
South Africa 29awards
Joined 24th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1257

Hey guys

The competition here was fierce. All the poetry in this comp was exceptional.

So much so, I asked her royal webmiss if it was possible to consider multiple winners on this. The site guidelines don't cater for that as it would set president and I can see the reason behind that...

So I had to man up and call it. . .

Had multiple trophies been accepted the results would be a shared win between Mr G & Jade then Poppy's remote and Mysterious Lady's dirty dollar as runner ups.

In the "Maning up" I called it as...

Gahddess_Worship for INVOLUNTARY ACCOMPLICE.

Runner Ups:

Jade-Pandora for Curtain Call

ImperfectedStone for Remote


And a special mention to

Mysterious Lady and Dirty Dollar


Grateful to all of you for splashing poetry gold on this comp. Everyone did a splendid job.

This could so run as a thread type thingy.

Blue Skies at you all

Al



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