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ImperfectedStone (The Gardener)
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I NEED some tranquility

Kingmat01
Martin2019
Strange Creature
Kenya
Joined 7th Aug 2019
Forum Posts: 6

Hunting For Tranquility

The demons make my head their abound,paying rent in verbal vomit

They debate loud, pass point one after another

Robbing me of all peace and tranquility

I take a shot of whiskey to try silence them

This just adds fire as their noise is magnified

I drawn a bottle of hard rum, result;Animating their debating

"First get money to earn respect."

Demon 1 puts a point across

"money ain't everything."

Demom 2 counters

"money is all shit u need."

I join in but stop immediately because my primary objective is to silence them.

For a moment all is quite

I close my eyes to catch some sleep

Immediately the animated debate kicks off again

What a short break that was

I turn in bed hoping against all odds

That this move disorients and quotes them

But have only managed to change their language

"Amigo, Como estas. Mi Nombre es Tormentor"

I know no Spanish

But for certain the demons voices

Are driving me crazy

I leave my bed and drown another gulp of vodka

But sleep and drunkness are not my portion tonight

I pick a roll of weed from my stash

Just sit there and smell it

Looking out through the window, curtains drawn

I light, draw and puff away smoke, which clouds my room and thoughts

For a moment all is still

Then Thunder roars ,defeaning

I take a peak out to watch, to beckon rain to fall and musk the noise in my head

The sky is clear, I realise the thunder is just in my head

Shivering I breeze in the washroom

The tiles are cold as I step in

I step back then in,in defeat

I run a cold shower

As if to pay a penance

To punish myself

In doing so to disgust the demons

The water hits me hard, mercilessly

Sitting under it, tears streaming

Washed away by the water descending upon me, cold and harsh

I just sit there, whimpering

Hunting for tranquility
Written by Kingmat01 (Martin2019)
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poet Anonymous

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clewluss
SMOOKY
Thought Provoker
Joined 22nd Apr 2014
Forum Posts: 281

I am overwhelmed by the wonderful entries.

I am openly asking all to either post a short paragraph(s) on their favourite entry(s),
and/or PM me with your selection,
so that I may judge a winner
because I cannot
tho I want to ,
grant everyone a great big win.
Thank you
and god speed
on our journey of,
and to,
peace

JohnnyBlaze
Tyrant of Words
United States 23awards
Joined 20th Mar 2015
Forum Posts: 5573

clewluss said:I am overwhelmed by the wonderful entries.

I am openly asking all to either post a short paragraph(s) on their favourite entry(s),
and/or PM me with your selection,
so that I may judge a winner
because I cannot
tho I want to ,
grant everyone a great big win.
Thank you
and god speed
on our journey of,
and to,
peace


Sure thing. Will get back atcha in 6 days.

poet Anonymous

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eroseternal
Tim Eros
Thought Provoker
United States
Joined 6th July 2019
Forum Posts: 87

Walk to the Temple

A moment away in a mountain getaway
where the deer and squirrels readily play
Trees and creeks, paths from past feet,
In my silence I can here what they have to say
 
I am only a molecule in the presence
of all the things that make up existence
My once hurried mind is caught in the essence
of the continuous motion of frozen moments
 
A calm serene takes over my body
as I realize my short walk has become a journey
of exploration into my own realization
that I am so much more than the sum of me
 
I stop for a moment to the crackling sound
of a doe passing and posing for a moment
The silent gaze was quite profound
I had never experienced quite a compliment
 
The path broke through between the trees
to find a temple set in the clearing
As I entered the door, a gentle breeze
exited the room with a blissful whispering
 
Leave your shoes and worldly thoughts here
Enter this place with your mind and heart clear
The presence of self is the absence of fear
and the only part of you that will last forever
Written by eroseternal (Tim Eros)
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AspergerPoet56
Tyrant of Words
Scotland 30awards
Joined 4th Dec 2018
Forum Posts: 1874

I Feel Silence

Silence…….
I feel
        the silence  
D
   e
     e
       P
         L
           Y
It may not take  
                            form
But it is still  
                      felt  
For it is here……
 
Surrounding
                       me  
Becoming  
                  me

# E.E. Cummings
Written by AspergerPoet56
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summultima
uma
Dangerous Mind
India 34awards
Joined 3rd Feb 2012
Forum Posts: 1301

Related submission no longer exists.

Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
United States 154awards
Joined 9th Nov 2015
Forum Posts: 5134

Okay, I’m not an entrant here, so I will pm you my picks for first, second & third place once the competition closes.

Glad to help.


clewluss said:I am overwhelmed by the wonderful entries.

I am openly asking all to either post a short paragraph(s) on their favourite entry(s),
and/or PM me with your selection,
so that I may judge a winner
because I cannot
tho I want to ,
grant everyone a great big win.
Thank you
and god speed
on our journey of,
and to,
peace

poet Anonymous



haiga #4 ... stone by Ely ~ I will not be here when this comp ends ... this is my Vote. Why?  It`s beautiful.

summultima
uma
Dangerous Mind
India 34awards
Joined 3rd Feb 2012
Forum Posts: 1301

ZUBOSHI

 

 
 
palish last drop  
of the dripping in ‘natural pure’    
such law-abiding corporate honey  
...gotten over this morning  
 
nearby outside in the fields  
the blaring fantaish-bud bloomed  
skinny rustic pomegranate branches  
hold the honeybees in buzz,  a  
congregating chaos  
in their own-honeycombing  
homecoming for three newmoon  
stints, ...and there below  
hangs a skeletal comb  
of their ancestry  
in a linking continuum ..a  
mummified reminder  
of sorts  
 
their  
thousand black eyes throng  
the comb, rustling lacy brown wings  
flap in an anthem  of intermingled  
mergence, contrastingly banded---  
                      
                     (in some flash-hinting  
                of their pristine nectarine  
                       they together labour  
                                      in process)  
 
           ---yellow & ambered  
abdomens over abdomens  
stacked in postures… the outer  
ones suddenly ply in and out  
in some roaring alerts  
  of ferocious velocities  
 
let them ..let be ..let go …  
 
nature  
allows truth to exist . in pains . in duties  
same nature  
also embraces the faking mimicking  
not-so truth too, lifts them  
high,  sometimes  
high so high, to have  
an unforgettable fall .  almost     an end.  
 
 
Its all in our nature within us  
 
       "the reigning green-swallowing giants of ungluing egos shall perish"  
 
 
meanwhile, the  
existential quandary extends allover  
you see..even this  
crisply granulating instant coffee jar…  
how is it misplaced in that  
emptied honey space?
 Is it  
the bridging similarity browns  
that’s a masking mascot  
in our subconsciously  
hung hues of suspension?  
 
 
 
Nature…  
              activating it …  
 with the supremely  
        reinforced...the iron skulled  
 arrows in a sternous  
           combating warfare  
      with their heavenly flexing  
         ballerina spine as bows  
 of precising  
              elegance…
 
 
it’s mind…  
    a monk now ...in a  
  transmutational equilibrium…  
         is in a phaseless omniscient  
                     omnipresence  
 
 
it’s heart in boundless elasticities  
manifests unto soul’s convergence  
 
 
              a ‘point’  
 
 
 
 
your syncing golden bullseye
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Written by summultima (uma)
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clewluss
SMOOKY
Thought Provoker
Joined 22nd Apr 2014
Forum Posts: 281

Thanks to all , I will come back to this comp every time I need some peace.

Thanks for the many pm's to help pick winners.

If you didn't win, I wanted you to win.

Bon-vwra-wah-lah, as they say in Sprench.

ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
Tyrant of Words
United Kingdom 28awards
Joined 10th Oct 2010
Forum Posts: 1347

Thank you.

AspergerPoet56
Tyrant of Words
Scotland 30awards
Joined 4th Dec 2018
Forum Posts: 1874

ImperfectedStone said:Thank you.

congratulations

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