Poetry competition CLOSED 24th January 2024 2:43am
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eswaller
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A love that wrecked you

Diaryofabasketcase
Silvia Rosario
Thought Provoker
United States 1awards
Joined 31st Aug 2019
Forum Posts: 4

The White Dress

I dream of the white dress with you
Although I’ve had it once before
It didn’t mean that much back then
Now it means to me much more

I know that life gets messy
And sometimes we get it wrong
Do you think back, how we lost track
I play our favorite song

The one that I imagined
Walking down the aisle to meet you
The one about November rain
It played during our meet cute

I remember when I heard it first
I remember how you smelled
I remember bumping into you
I remember when I fell

The wedding you won’t give me
You’re giving someone else
Proving I’m not good enough
Leaving me all by myself







Written by Diaryofabasketcase (Silvia Rosario)
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personanongrata
Astral Gift
Thought Provoker
Greece 5awards
Joined 8th June 2015
Forum Posts: 276

I gAve you mY sOul  !!

What is that that I'm feeling right now
Is it pain of my ego being hurt?
My mind wants you out of it but how
Which words did you fake and which were meant?
 
My inside is as blackish as my night
My motives were brutally disarmed
And I dwell in a violent lovebite
from my love and my hope for ever banned
 
How can I allow this in my life?
Being tortured from myself and call it fate
Where is my eternal spark of light
Is there anything in this plane that isn't fake?
 
I will die and my rebirth is this arrow
I will keep it on my skin like a souvenir  
it has poisoned my blood within a narrow
that goes straight from the heart to the atmosphere
While polluting the fucking air with nuclear waste
of emotions and charged feelings drained to death
All I see is a button saying 'erase'
as I struggle to restrain my fucking breathe
 
 
 
3,14
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Written by personanongrata (Astral Gift)
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dejure
vick
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 17th Aug 2015
Forum Posts: 2880

Betrayals

Betrayals
dejure (vick)
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peninnah
The Blue Rose
Fire of Insight
Kenya 8awards
Joined 23rd Dec 2013
Forum Posts: 79

DIVINE MASTERPIECE

A rear table for two at the Cafe Deli by the corner of Moi Avenue  
Where street lights eavesdrop on lovers as they sip the night away,  
I took a deep breath desperate to contain the outpouring of my dancing heart.  
“Finally. After weeks of, I have him all to myself!”  
   
Bubbling like a child eager to unwrap their first candy  
I said to him, "Let me see those gifted hands!"  
And as I ran my fingers across the contours  
Taking in that polished leathery feel…  
 “Alas!” Exclaimed my spirit, “I have touched the hands of God!"  
   
That fine May night has birthed many fateful days;  
June surreptitiously took off with promises made therein haste;    
Sacred whispers so carelessly spoken…  
And the summery smiles on that selfie shared with friends has since turned as cold as July!  
   
He was fairly new to me that first meet  
And the passage of time like rain on dry lands has yield fresh grove.    
Yet even now,perfectly estranged  
Like an indwelling;  
His form, his essence! Remains.  
   

                        ~My Divine Masterpiece.  
 
Happy birthday Surge! Happy Happy birthday gifted hands!!!
Written by peninnah (The Blue Rose)
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Carpe_Noctem
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 3rd Mar 2013
Forum Posts: 2999

Make a martyr of me

Cut off my arms
sever my legs

Bound and gagged
as you hang me
all dropped and displayed

Sick centre piece
trophy cabinet
next to Dorian Grey

One has to ask


Fickle are the maggots
picking at those scant few morsels
Corpse husband whistling
The thunder rolls

Caged within lonely days
the dirt I am burried in
Written by Carpe_Noctem
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personanongrata
Astral Gift
Thought Provoker
Greece 5awards
Joined 8th June 2015
Forum Posts: 276

I gAve you mY sOul  !!

What is that that I'm feeling right now
Is it pain of my ego being hurt?
My mind wants you out of it but how
Which words did you fake and which were meant?
 
My inside is as blackish as my night
My motives were brutally disarmed
And I dwell in a violent lovebite
from my love and my hope for ever banned
 
How can I allow this in my life?
Being tortured from myself and call it fate
Where is my eternal spark of light
Is there anything in this plane that isn't fake?
 
I will die and my rebirth is this arrow
I will keep it on my skin like a souvenir  
it has poisoned my blood within a narrow
that goes straight from the heart to the atmosphere
While polluting the fucking air with nuclear waste
of emotions and charged feelings drained to death
All I see is a button saying 'erase'
as I struggle to restrain my fucking breathe
 
 
 
3,14
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Written by personanongrata (Astral Gift)
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Razzerleaf
Fire of Insight
United Kingdom 27awards
Joined 15th Sep 2019
Forum Posts: 525

Bobbing for apples

My mouth never seemed big enough  
I only ever bit my lip,  
Head always under water  
as you both evaded my bite,  
kept me chasing a taste.  

Just sweet enough to hold us
engaged, always trying despite  
sour smiles and smooth skin, somehow  
that made it all the more emotional,  
its hard to know which apples to avoid,  
harder still to find the good ones.  
 
Each time I gave it up,  
your shinny red would surface  
and offer me another mouthful  
of this poison. I would sleep deeper
each time, waiting for a taste  
of true loves kiss,  
but you saved that for each other  
and so the game goes on.
Written by Razzerleaf
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drone
Tyrant of Words
Greece 10awards
Joined 3rd Sep 2011
Forum Posts: 2273

Why do you need
to see
whats behind the door
Are the words
i love you
Not enough
any more

Why do you insist
on looking
behind the scenes
when you know
what you will find
will not be Me

Yet you hope and pray
that i will change
while wishfull thinking
becomes your cage

As you lay
on your barron bed
of dispair
Believeing
One Day
I will care

superslooth
Lost Thinker
United States 1awards
Joined 11th Apr 2023
Forum Posts: 7

Thank you to everyone who entered and submitted incredible poems - winner is eswaller and runner up is ceffs - congrats!!

eswaller
Dangerous Mind
United States 31awards
Joined 22nd Dec 2015
Forum Posts: 762

Wow, thank you so much. This means so much to me! Congrats to ceffs and thanks to superslooth for hosting.

mike_will
Mike Will
Strange Creature
Kenya
Joined 7th Jan 2024
Forum Posts: 4

AMAZING

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