Poetry competition CLOSED 15th October 2024 7:09am
WINNER
Mstrmnd1923
Mstrmnd1923
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Can You Relate
Poetry Contest Description
Decide on a theme. Think about 4 unrelated things, items, emotions, images... that connect to your theme. Describe how they relate to your them to produce one cohesive poem that depicts your theme.
Please no Erotica.
100 words or less.
Rhyme is lovely but not required.
Here is an example. Not for the competition.
Loss
Humming birds flitter
desolate garden spaces
hovering
hungry
barren, dull places
Grand orchestra assembled
vacant music hall
inspiration
unheard
muted chords fall
Evening stars dimmed
forming dark cloud
fading
smothered
not shimmering proud
Mournful child cries
tragic maternal death
grieving
struggling
never catching breath
100 words or less.
Rhyme is lovely but not required.
Here is an example. Not for the competition.
Loss
Humming birds flitter
desolate garden spaces
hovering
hungry
barren, dull places
Grand orchestra assembled
vacant music hall
inspiration
unheard
muted chords fall
Evening stars dimmed
forming dark cloud
fading
smothered
not shimmering proud
Mournful child cries
tragic maternal death
grieving
struggling
never catching breath
"Aspects of Umbral Wandering"
Silent shades wander
Endless fields of dusk
Lingering
Fading
Eternal in their husk
Angels weep softly
Wings brush the void
Watching
Waiting
In a silence destroyed
Vast skies stretch wide
Swallowed by night
Empty
Cold
Gone from mortal sight
Death whispers close
Its breath like wind
Unseen
Ancient
Where all things rescind
Silent shades wander
Endless fields of dusk
Lingering
Fading
Eternal in their husk
Angels weep softly
Wings brush the void
Watching
Waiting
In a silence destroyed
Vast skies stretch wide
Swallowed by night
Empty
Cold
Gone from mortal sight
Death whispers close
Its breath like wind
Unseen
Ancient
Where all things rescind
A tincture of bold
Silvering the cloth
That wicks out the cold
Garish
Audacious
A tincture of bold
A jilted society
The buyers of scold
Incompliant
Unruly
Emboldened in gold
Subtle voice of manipulation
A thief in the fold
Heedless
Regardless
And hard to unfold
Salty quips of a lover
lascivious, sixfold
Lustful
Salacious
A wanton enfold
That wicks out the cold
Garish
Audacious
A tincture of bold
A jilted society
The buyers of scold
Incompliant
Unruly
Emboldened in gold
Subtle voice of manipulation
A thief in the fold
Heedless
Regardless
And hard to unfold
Salty quips of a lover
lascivious, sixfold
Lustful
Salacious
A wanton enfold
Written by Everavalon
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Yarn Unraveled
Threads
Wrapped up and sewn together
Protecting what seems like forever
A life that almost has never
Seen the storms that I've weathered
Sheep
Can't pull the wool over my eyes
I am the one whom I despise
Filled with regret and so many lies
Living my life in this disguise
Puppets
Pulled by strings controlling me
False belief in my reality
Created by the imaginary
Unlimited by my mortality
Chaos
As I watch my mind uncrack
My emotional void empty and black
Unwound by desperations attack
Of my life I'll never get back
Wrapped up and sewn together
Protecting what seems like forever
A life that almost has never
Seen the storms that I've weathered
Sheep
Can't pull the wool over my eyes
I am the one whom I despise
Filled with regret and so many lies
Living my life in this disguise
Puppets
Pulled by strings controlling me
False belief in my reality
Created by the imaginary
Unlimited by my mortality
Chaos
As I watch my mind uncrack
My emotional void empty and black
Unwound by desperations attack
Of my life I'll never get back
Written by Mstrmnd1923
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...down Time
I could see every note
Every rudiment down to the last beat
Sticks bouncing smoothly on the snare
As I marked time with my feet
I remember bullets whizzing by
Amid vociferous explosions and screams
A deafening quiet for a second
When soldiers saw me running in the street
I still recall the loud thunder
When lightning hit that tree behind our home
Me, sprinting fast and scared
Feeling a chill down to my bones
But now when I run, I hear my breath
With a steady rhythm in my mind
Every pulse perfectly played
My head slowing down time
Every rudiment down to the last beat
Sticks bouncing smoothly on the snare
As I marked time with my feet
I remember bullets whizzing by
Amid vociferous explosions and screams
A deafening quiet for a second
When soldiers saw me running in the street
I still recall the loud thunder
When lightning hit that tree behind our home
Me, sprinting fast and scared
Feeling a chill down to my bones
But now when I run, I hear my breath
With a steady rhythm in my mind
Every pulse perfectly played
My head slowing down time
Written by wallyroo92
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