Poetry competition CLOSED 5th October 2018 6:00am
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Obsessed

KGERICD
Kurt Geric Dili
Twisted Dreamer
Philippines 1awards
Joined 19th Aug 2018
Forum Posts: 19

Lost not found

i was lost and not found
in the streets i was around
walking like no one sorrounds me

i cried and no one hears me
tears dropped like shattered glass
hoping this pains would end at last
Written by KGERICD (Kurt Geric Dili)
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BludSukka
Strange Creature
Australia
Joined 20th June 2018
Forum Posts: 2

Missing Mercy

The sun has set
The stars are gone
The darkness is complete.
With tired legs, and hollow heart
The chances all are up.
The day has cast it’s final roll
And I am missing more...

The times we made
The loving touch, burnt brilliant bright and brief.
If I had known, if I had faced
The invincible defeat
For each small piece I should have stayed
And lingered moments longer.
Somehow paid more than I had to give
And traded in my chips.
The little graces, the smallest gestures
More beautiful than all the rest
And opening deeply they marked my heart, every touch and kiss

But I should have seen.
I should have been another man, another time and a different road.
So all the moments, I now recall
Will fade and vanish with my decay
The tears I cry for memories
Will not make them real again.
Still I try, to feel it all, and hold to my soul
In every step of every inch, and each breath and place
I see you with me
And letting go there is no rescue, or salvation to redeem
There is only missing more...

So praise the gods
And curse them all
For the gifts they give, the price to pay.
The plans and schemes were theirs to shape
The choices few, oh they did abound
But came and went with fleeting chance
I could not make the way my own
And so I’m missing more...

And there you sit, there you speak
Across the table
Just a reach away
Your hands are busy with the props
Your fingers strong
Your eyes too deep
Your heart so sweet
But nothing now to keep.

Your voice and words, a lovely tone
They form the shapes, and make make the sounds
Of love and hurt, of place and time you’ve been
But I cannot reach, I cannot speak
For things now said, are simple and too neat
And I can see
And so I know
With aching bones
That it means missing more...

And all the angels
The games they set, and tricks they played
A merry dance in which, acted I a pity part of blind and mute
The lines were set
The scriptures carved
In stones and scattered heaps
They gather round
Their heads bowed low, with graven stoop.
For well they knew
When the music came to silent end
And all is done
And all is spent
And nothing more to speak
That I’d be missing more...

When night is near
And day is on its knees
I long to sleep and drift
But still there is, a little more
I hoped in heart to keep
When you are gone, and I am incomplete
I’m still missing more...

This life but one
Will not have been enough
There was more pain, I wished to seek
And carry it all, I would have done
A beast of burden, his load to bear
For now it’s clear and there is no escape
I’m bound to missing more...
Written by BludSukka
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BludSukka
Strange Creature
Australia
Joined 20th June 2018
Forum Posts: 2

Will be Mercy

It is not my will, that
in every moment of every day
my tears know your distance
I dream awake
In every place, I see you still
It is not my will...

With every vision conjured
my fabric still
knows your smile
fingers know your skin
My eyes the landscape of your body
breath your presence
my tongue your taste
lips your kisses
My ears your music, and your voice
I bow my head to your caress
Your catching glance and your deep full stare
from under and over
It is not my will...

My heart is full
from knowing you
But shattered sharply are all my thoughts
no death of senses, no numb escape
no dulled or faded edge
of sockets wrenched, flesh’s tattered ends
My fabric knows you still
My stomach cramps, my chest inflates
and it ever aches
Though it is not my will...

But if will were mine
my heart I’d puncture, under Sun
and nail to the tender wood
of the tree called Mercy
high on loves tallest hill
Written by BludSukka
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Grace
IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 16191

BludSukka and KGERICD thank you for participating.

KGERICD
Kurt Geric Dili
Twisted Dreamer
Philippines 1awards
Joined 19th Aug 2018
Forum Posts: 19

alchoholic

i pour a drink on my glass
i took a sip and remembered my past
i was good and was never been this bad
i was happy and never been this sad
i was the best

i never drink this much
i never took a punch
i bled and cried
why did i become this kind of guy

i became addicted
and destroyed
Written by KGERICD (Kurt Geric Dili)
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snugglebuck
Dangerous Mind
United States 77awards
Joined 3rd Feb 2014
Forum Posts: 1873

Obsession From Above

I sneak creep and slink
Listen ponder and peek
Inside the attic of your old house
Where I live quite as a shy mouse
You’re the woman with whom
I'm secretly cohabiting
Ignorant of my existing
You live without pretension
Abandoning all your inhibitions
You’re my obsession on exhibition
The object of my perverse infatuation
Sometimes I wonder if you knew
That I watch your every move
What would you say or do?
Would you welcome me with open arms?
Or panic and scream frantically in alarm?
If the latter is how you would react
In desperation I'd be forced to attack
Like a leopard from a tree above
I’d pounce upon you, my sweet love
But I’d rather be your surprise lover
Than your shocking perpetrator
But patience belongs to the predator
So, whatever the whether, my little charmer
Either way, you'll be mine, forever
Written by snugglebuck
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SatInUGal
Kumar
Dangerous Mind
United States 24awards
Joined 31st Dec 2015
Forum Posts: 926

A FACEBOOK MESSAGE I SOMETIMES DESPERATELY WANT TO SEND

I wish I had experienced you
Inside and out
When I had the chance

You wanted me
I wanted you
We were naked and wet
From the hot tub

And then we were interrupted
And that was that

No taste, no feel, no smell
To savor in memorium

Only the memory of you
Going out of your way to apologize
For something that never happened

Let me ask:
How do you
Remember that night?
Written by SatInUGal (Kumar)
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SatInUGal
Kumar
Dangerous Mind
United States 24awards
Joined 31st Dec 2015
Forum Posts: 926

THAT TIME

I wish we had finished
The conversation
We were having
With our bodies
Written by SatInUGal (Kumar)
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Grace
IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 16191

SatInUGal, snugglebuck, Bender and KGERICD thank you for your participation.

poet Anonymous

theparadox86
Twisted Dreamer
United States
Joined 26th Aug 2014
Forum Posts: 7

the otherside

strolling on the other side of sanity unknowingly, crossed the barriers to a place where no one plans to be
now I need a sign to show me that I'm still alive a victim of loves betrayal and prisoner to the other side

so many times, I've searched for a friend but found a foe
in my crisis,I've asked for comfort but
some are able to endure the challenge and sustaingot a no
so I cross the bridges of broken hope and plunge into the place where no man's supposed to go
I'm livin life in the ruins of fallen buildings that used to be my intellect but is now forgotten brilliance

so acceptance becomes my shelter and shield to help me cope with the depth of my despair
no one's spirit is meant to be broken but there's a thin line between balanced and hopeless

karma spares no man no matter how determined or focused
there's no resistance once you are chosen
some are able to endure the challenge and sustain
others lose the battle and abandon their brain

now they join me in the realm of the lost
to spend a little time on the wildest ride and take the craziest walk
in a different dimension where competence is unable to survive
now we're strolling in unison, in a place known only as the other side
Written by theparadox86
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Grace
IDryad
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 25th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 16191

Darksun82 and theparadox86 thank you for your participation.

eswaller
Dangerous Mind
United States 30awards
Joined 22nd Dec 2015
Forum Posts: 752

Little Obsessions

She was still a little girl who carried her insecurities around like a blanket
And was always obsessed with finding perfection all around her because
She could not find any perfection within herself. She already had cut

Herself too deeply to care if she was still bleeding. She knew the cause
Of her pain, but it was another one of her obsessions to keep it all to
Herself until she was drowning and completely submerged. Her flaws

Are like track marks and a roadmap on her body, beautiful but not new
To her. I know she tries hard to forget the inflicting words she has heard
Her whole life. Parts of herself that she keeps to herself. When you

Love someone like her, I promise you that she will mean every word
Because for her they come directly from her heart. Her obsession
With words never diminishes because she wants to be a free bird.
Written by eswaller
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wallyroo92
Tyrant of Words
United States 147awards
Joined 11th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1794

I Wrote Her Name

I wrote her name anywhere and everywhere,
I was possessed, obsessed with writing her name,
I wrote her letters and poetry like epic works of art,
Because deep in my heart she had started this flame.

I wrote hints and innuendoes to her all the time,
Dropping hidden rhymes to send off good vibes,
And even with that, when I knew she couldn’t be mine,
To far and distant shores I strayed waiting for the tides.

And though I went through some other phases,
To faces and places that I do not and cannot recall,
My secret obsession was still and quiet, quite deep,
Because the letters I wrote had made the long haul.

And just when I thought I had been able to let go,
At the reencounter the emotions never grew old,
So like a man renewed I knew I had to take the chance,
When the love from my youth came back to me tenfold.

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