Poetry competition CLOSED 6th October 2011 2:42am
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ImperfectedStone (The Gardener)
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RUNNERS-UP: mjs211 and 4lic3666

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"What do you want on your Tombstone?" Part II

Posted: 29th August 2011 2:42am
Edited: 29th August 2011 2:48am - edited 2 times
poet Anonymous

Poetry Contest

Write an Epitaph based on what you would want on your own tombstone. An epitaph is a brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines,  but for this challenge, please read the details below!*
*Since the last one was so popular, I have decided to run this competition yet again! This time though, the epitaph can be any amount of lines, but it can be about only one of the following different twists: it can be about what you will miss in this life, or what you'd take with you if you could take anything along with you to the afterlife, or any unfinished business you had while still alive! (it can be about any one particular choice, or you can mix them all up into one) Good Luck! I'll pick a winner and runner up in about one month!

Posted: 29th August 2011 2:49am
siphondarkness
siphondarkness
Levi
Dangerous Mind
United States 14awards
Joined 6th Apr 2011
Forum Posts: 2026
I wait for you
my love
Whether in hell
or heaven above
Heaven will be
hell without you
And hell would be
heaven if I was with you

Posted: 29th August 2011 4:22am
mjs211
mjs211
MikeTheEngineer
Dangerous Mind
United States 20awards
Joined 22nd Aug 2010
Forum Posts: 1572
By now you know
I left three wives
in three states,
so whomever dies last
gets the inheritance.
The knives are in
the drawer by the stove.

Posted: 29th August 2011 4:27am
mjs211
mjs211
MikeTheEngineer
Dangerous Mind
United States 20awards
Joined 22nd Aug 2010
Forum Posts: 1572
The family jewels
were buried with me
(I think you can guess
where I put them)

Tell the guys at the bar
I'm so good at getting laid
I even got a handjob from hell.

Posted: 29th August 2011 5:55am
beautiful_accident
beautiful_accident
Fire of Insight
United States 20awards
Joined 21st June 2011
Forum Posts: 330
I lived a life
Fast forward, high throttle
Left a bloody messy corpse
And don't think I didn't catch you--

Put back my fucking bottle!

Posted: 30th August 2011 4:51am
gski9392
gski9392
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 10th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 38
What I would give
To have had a day
Where all the noise
Would go away.

And now I'm free.
Lord, Finally!
To live in peace...
Wtf?! She followed me?!

Posted: 30th August 2011 5:00am
ClearmindedVillain
ClearmindedVillain
Thought Provoker
United States 1awards
Joined 29th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 69
Hope by now that I have lived.
If not this shall be my fate.
To continue my living is not to late.
In the past life hope I did all and to everyone give.

Posted: 22nd September 2011 2:37am
4lic3666
4lic3666
Alyce
Twisted Dreamer
United States
Joined 13th Apr 2011
Forum Posts: 38
buried with pen in hand
her poems immortalize her
throughout the land

Posted: 22nd September 2011 4:42am
4lic3666
4lic3666
Alyce
Twisted Dreamer
United States
Joined 13th Apr 2011
Forum Posts: 38
she left many behind that did not understand
that her life felt as structureless as the desert's sand

Posted: 23rd September 2011 9:51am
Edited: 23rd September 2011 9:55am
Indie
Indie
Miss Indie
Tyrant of Words
Australia 34awards
Joined 3rd Sep 2011
Forum Posts: 3209
The light was on, now no-one's home
Buried deep within this tomb
She lived to fight
Against the night
And the demons of these places
Who wore such human faces
And now faces the dark alone

Posted: 24th September 2011 11:50am
iNemo
iNemo
Strange Creature
Australia
Joined 24th Sep 2011
Forum Posts: 1
Burned, buried or both:
With the dirt, over time, goes
evidence I tried…

Posted: 24th September 2011 12:12pm
DarcAnGeL
DarcAnGeL
Araweelo
Twisted Dreamer
Canada 1awards
Joined 21st Sep 2011
Forum Posts: 82
an avid reader
a habitual dreamer
a biased sangoma
to the ways of blood works and sonars
her ethereal existence forever shared
with the next in line to extend the care
her mortal shell lies in these grounds
long abandoned, her soul has no bounds
dances to the muted sounds
that are sparked by those who once did hound
pssst....you, who these lines do read
sprinkle here some water from the Nile's deep
tonight she feasts
and with Haides she sleeps....

Posted: 24th September 2011 9:57pm
TheAngelWhoFell
TheAngelWhoFell
Thought Provoker
United States 1awards
Joined 13th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 177
Thoes who speak badly of me,
Never knew me.
Or allways hated me.
Oh well.
Screw hevens angels,
Cuz alls well in hell.
And down there,
I have a reputation to fill.

Posted: 25th September 2011 8:57am
ImperfectedStone
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
Tyrant of Words
United Kingdom 28awards
Joined 10th Oct 2010
Forum Posts: 1347
Never had life seemed
so beautiful
than when she closed her eyes
and the last thing she saw
was you.

Posted: 25th September 2011 9:00am
ImperfectedStone
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
Tyrant of Words
United Kingdom 28awards
Joined 10th Oct 2010
Forum Posts: 1347
Oh, my friend,
you will not cry,
nor wear white,
I did not die
for when the stars are all asleep
I'll dance o'er gravestones,
you must not weep.

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