Poetry competition CLOSED 7th March 2024 6:43am
WINNER
PAR (PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
PAR (PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
RUNNERS-UP:
wallyroo92
and Ahavati
1944
Poetry Contest Description
What this year means to You
1944 is a significant year in the history of the world. Write a poem on what this year means to you or what happened this year in your country's history or countries you know.
Two Poems Per Poet
Any Length
No Collaborations
No chatting in Comp Thread
No AI generated Poem
No extreme content
Refrain from racial and religious implications
Imphal Invasion 1944
Sons of the Rising Sun
raised their katana
even with the weak showato
worshipping their strength
they were on their knees
but pride stood them up
they retreated with dignity
to fight again
yes to fight again
someday
as long as Hinomaru flies
from its proud post
-not an entry-
Two Poems Per Poet
Any Length
No Collaborations
No chatting in Comp Thread
No AI generated Poem
No extreme content
Refrain from racial and religious implications
Imphal Invasion 1944
Sons of the Rising Sun
raised their katana
even with the weak showato
worshipping their strength
they were on their knees
but pride stood them up
they retreated with dignity
to fight again
yes to fight again
someday
as long as Hinomaru flies
from its proud post
-not an entry-
80 Years Ago
In the year 1944 I wasn't born,
my parents weren't alive
my grandfather who is now deceased fought in WWII
my grandmother was 15 years old and is still with us as I write this,
The following musicians and actors were born this year that mean something to me:
Danny DeVito
Danny Trejo
Michael Douglas
Gary Busey
Michelle Phillips
Edgar Froesce
Billy Cobham
Jimmy Page
Roger Daltry
Ray Davies
Jeff Beck
Alvin Lee
Keith Emerson
John Densmore
John Enthwistle
These movies were released in 1944 that are highly recommended if you haven't already seen them:
Double Indemnity
Arsenic and Old Lace
Laura
Gaslight
The Woman in the Window
The Uninvited
The Scarlet Claw
Any Three Stooges Short that was released in 1944.
my parents weren't alive
my grandfather who is now deceased fought in WWII
my grandmother was 15 years old and is still with us as I write this,
The following musicians and actors were born this year that mean something to me:
Danny DeVito
Danny Trejo
Michael Douglas
Gary Busey
Michelle Phillips
Edgar Froesce
Billy Cobham
Jimmy Page
Roger Daltry
Ray Davies
Jeff Beck
Alvin Lee
Keith Emerson
John Densmore
John Enthwistle
These movies were released in 1944 that are highly recommended if you haven't already seen them:
Double Indemnity
Arsenic and Old Lace
Laura
Gaslight
The Woman in the Window
The Uninvited
The Scarlet Claw
Any Three Stooges Short that was released in 1944.
Written by Vision_of_insanity
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Nineteen Forty Four
On the seventh Day of October
in the year Nineteen Forty Four
a boy was born just before the war
ended, a final desperate hour
He played among the ruins
of homes turned rubbles
fallen bricks burnt in crashes
heard throughout the years
he left the town of Osnabrück
he wanted to live elsewhere
wanted to try his luck
away from the effect of war
1944, on the flip of side of the coin
Tatars knew the swords
prosecuted by the regime
false accusations of collaborations
Two hundred thousand people
forced journeyed without sustenance
many fell along the way
and many more when they arrived
they live on in a song
memories cried out by their children
the unfairness of the time
the atrocities of war
-Not an Entry-
On the seventh Day of October
in the year Nineteen Forty Four
a boy was born just before the war
ended, a final desperate hour
He played among the ruins
of homes turned rubbles
fallen bricks burnt in crashes
heard throughout the years
he left the town of Osnabrück
he wanted to live elsewhere
wanted to try his luck
away from the effect of war
1944, on the flip of side of the coin
Tatars knew the swords
prosecuted by the regime
false accusations of collaborations
Two hundred thousand people
forced journeyed without sustenance
many fell along the way
and many more when they arrived
they live on in a song
memories cried out by their children
the unfairness of the time
the atrocities of war
-Not an Entry-
Beating the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons into Plowshares
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Not much of any note occurred in 1944 --
like every year, the same old hope for peace and same old war.
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Not much of any note occurred in 1944 --
like every year, the same old hope for peace and same old war.
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Written by Jordan
(D.O.C.)
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Dial Portugal 1944
Under the cloak of neutrality,
Portugal, land of ancient navigators,
watched the world in calamity,
in the silence of their own fears.
Salazar, with his iron hand,
kept the war out the door,
but the echo of the conflict was sincere,
and in the gloom, hope was dead.
The Tagus reflected the moonlight
while spies danced in Lisbon.
War, a shadow that continues
in the story that memory sings.
Tungsten fueled the economy,
dark business in dark times.
Neutrality was a utopia
or a game between several challenges?
Portugal, at the crossroads of destiny,
between fascism and freedom
chose a clandestine path,
in the second war an ambiguity.
And so the years passed
with the Atlantic separating worlds.
Portugal, among its mistakes,
kept very deep secrets.
Portugal, land of ancient navigators,
watched the world in calamity,
in the silence of their own fears.
Salazar, with his iron hand,
kept the war out the door,
but the echo of the conflict was sincere,
and in the gloom, hope was dead.
The Tagus reflected the moonlight
while spies danced in Lisbon.
War, a shadow that continues
in the story that memory sings.
Tungsten fueled the economy,
dark business in dark times.
Neutrality was a utopia
or a game between several challenges?
Portugal, at the crossroads of destiny,
between fascism and freedom
chose a clandestine path,
in the second war an ambiguity.
And so the years passed
with the Atlantic separating worlds.
Portugal, among its mistakes,
kept very deep secrets.
Written by PAR
(PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
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The Greatest Generation
All those lives
All those lives
tossed into turmoil
When there was a rise in tyranny
and crimes against humanity
Many answered the call to fight for justice
Men were sent off to war
Women went off to work
All those lives
All they sacrificed
When I think of 1944
I think of the world being at war
Innocent lives being taken away
Innocent people being displaced
I think of all those young men being in faraway lands
not knowing if they would come home
I think of the mothers who never saw their sons alive again
All they sacrificed
I think of the ones who returned
with more than visible scars
Hell and the horrors of war
All those lives
When I think of 1944
I think of those who answered the call
Of the bravest
Of the greatest generation of all
All those lives
tossed into turmoil
When there was a rise in tyranny
and crimes against humanity
Many answered the call to fight for justice
Men were sent off to war
Women went off to work
All those lives
All they sacrificed
When I think of 1944
I think of the world being at war
Innocent lives being taken away
Innocent people being displaced
I think of all those young men being in faraway lands
not knowing if they would come home
I think of the mothers who never saw their sons alive again
All they sacrificed
I think of the ones who returned
with more than visible scars
Hell and the horrors of war
All those lives
When I think of 1944
I think of those who answered the call
Of the bravest
Of the greatest generation of all
Written by wallyroo92
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Exercise Tiger
April 28, 1944
Devon, England
It was only a planned rehearsal
or so it was meant to be
taking place on the beach
of Slapton Sands, Devon
for the invasion of Normandy.
But coordination and communication
don’t always go as planned,
resulting in not only friendly-fire injuries
but the death of 749 American servicemen
by e-boats of Nazi Germany.
April 28, 1969
Devon, England
I was only ten-years-old
the first time I saw my father cry,
tears as warship missiles
launching from his eyes
down the channels
of creviced facial lines.
His grey irises became clouds
dispersing drops of water
from the curve
of his sharp jawline.
The shadow of a pillar
extended as a sky-scraper
high into the ether above me
names I could barely read
carved on its plate.
I was only ten-years-old
and yet I remember
just as he remembered
those who had lost
to so needless an error.
Because those who are honored
through our memory
can never forgotten
in our current reality.
I later learned
it was a massacre
silenced for decades.
I don't know why.
Whoever does
over something like this?
I imagine military forces
were embarrassed.
But they say the sacrifice
prevented even greater tragedy
across the bloody sands
of Normandy’s beach.
I'm not so certain
it's something I believe.
I am pretty certain
the families of the deceased
and my father's grief
would both agree with me.
Devon, England
It was only a planned rehearsal
or so it was meant to be
taking place on the beach
of Slapton Sands, Devon
for the invasion of Normandy.
But coordination and communication
don’t always go as planned,
resulting in not only friendly-fire injuries
but the death of 749 American servicemen
by e-boats of Nazi Germany.
April 28, 1969
Devon, England
I was only ten-years-old
the first time I saw my father cry,
tears as warship missiles
launching from his eyes
down the channels
of creviced facial lines.
His grey irises became clouds
dispersing drops of water
from the curve
of his sharp jawline.
The shadow of a pillar
extended as a sky-scraper
high into the ether above me
names I could barely read
carved on its plate.
I was only ten-years-old
and yet I remember
just as he remembered
those who had lost
to so needless an error.
Because those who are honored
through our memory
can never forgotten
in our current reality.
I later learned
it was a massacre
silenced for decades.
I don't know why.
Whoever does
over something like this?
I imagine military forces
were embarrassed.
But they say the sacrifice
prevented even greater tragedy
across the bloody sands
of Normandy’s beach.
I'm not so certain
it's something I believe.
I am pretty certain
the families of the deceased
and my father's grief
would both agree with me.
Written by Ahavati
(Tams)
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Thank you so much for joining in competition. This competition didn’t have much participation but the entries are all amazing. The winners are Dial Portugal 1944 by PAR, runner up Exercise Tiger by Ahavati followed by The Greatest Generation by Wallyroo. Thank you so much for being with me in the competition and be with me again in my next time. Thank You.
