Poetry competition CLOSED 30th December 2011 9:57pm
WINNER
Anonymous
Anonymous
RUNNERS-UP:
Karrabear
and diddi
What do you fear most?
Grace
IDryad
Forum Posts: 16069
IDryad
Tyrant of Words
122
Joined 25th Aug 2011Forum Posts: 16069
Alzheimer's
Trapped within the room
where I am
Knowing but not knowing
where I am going
Trapped within thoughts
Inarticulated through words
having thousands of opinions
just bubbling beneath but no vents
Trapped within memories
so sweet and tender
memories that tear one's heart asunder
Never knowing which one comes before the other
Spirit trapped within a cowl
With full knowledge of then and now
But waiting for decay to kill the prison
Once loved and cherish as a vessel of the soul
And that is my fear
Although the years may be far yet
Until such that this disquiet
fill up my days
The fear is there
and there is fear
Trapped within the room
where I am
Knowing but not knowing
where I am going
Trapped within thoughts
Inarticulated through words
having thousands of opinions
just bubbling beneath but no vents
Trapped within memories
so sweet and tender
memories that tear one's heart asunder
Never knowing which one comes before the other
Spirit trapped within a cowl
With full knowledge of then and now
But waiting for decay to kill the prison
Once loved and cherish as a vessel of the soul
And that is my fear
Although the years may be far yet
Until such that this disquiet
fill up my days
The fear is there
and there is fear
dankkaxle
Joined 23rd Dec 2011
Forum Posts: 15
Lost Thinker
Forum Posts: 15
Realized how alone this world is meant to be.
How whenever you need someone the most,
they pack up their bags and leave.
alone.
How whenever you need someone the most,
they pack up their bags and leave.
alone.
opheliac
Forum Posts: 2122
Dangerous Mind
9
Joined 29th Aug 2009Forum Posts: 2122
Dependency
Moonlit eyes, vernal touch
and a golden embrace.
I slowly grow dependent
upon the things I
can never have.
Moonlit eyes, vernal touch
and a golden embrace.
I slowly grow dependent
upon the things I
can never have.
drone
Forum Posts: 2252
Tyrant of Words
10
Joined 3rd Sep 2011 Forum Posts: 2252
the silent screaming
of my despair
echoing in my mind
as common sense
slowly climbs
from my subconscious side
of my despair
echoing in my mind
as common sense
slowly climbs
from my subconscious side
Jestalessa
Forum Posts: 2329
Dangerous Mind
35
Joined 27th July 2010Forum Posts: 2329
i fear most an end to life before death lifts it all away
missed chances, frothing hopes never ridden to the sand
only disappointments
left alive for loved ones to dress
in face paint lies and pantomime frocks -
inaction of the irresolute
being laid upon the grieving
and dammit, i don't want to miss the view
crayon box colours
always streaming from their inspirations,
slithering through these holographic planes
we've named the third dimension
i fear calling myself to a sense of peace
so leaving the sun to rise and fall
without me
is okay
my fears
today
are emptiness and apathy
missed chances, frothing hopes never ridden to the sand
only disappointments
left alive for loved ones to dress
in face paint lies and pantomime frocks -
inaction of the irresolute
being laid upon the grieving
and dammit, i don't want to miss the view
crayon box colours
always streaming from their inspirations,
slithering through these holographic planes
we've named the third dimension
i fear calling myself to a sense of peace
so leaving the sun to rise and fall
without me
is okay
my fears
today
are emptiness and apathy
mbass33
matthew bass
Forum Posts: 334
matthew bass
Fire of Insight
7
Joined 22nd Nov 2010Forum Posts: 334
After the bottomless fall
will I be to frail
to get up again?
My stories,
will they be jokes
about an old man?
Will I be
a conversation
with myself?
will I be to frail
to get up again?
My stories,
will they be jokes
about an old man?
Will I be
a conversation
with myself?
skinnyjean
Llamaliscious
Forum Posts: 311
Llamaliscious
Thought Provoker
6
Joined 23rd May 2010Forum Posts: 311
Heavy burdon
My life is a vice connected
To a string on the mantle, strung up against the bracket;
Where the mirror once was held.
It dangles, but as doors slam
IT shudders weakening the string where
The tension builds up
Don't want it to tether
And drop through the floor boards
For it would pull this whole coven down
Wall by wall
With only the doorways intact
Being destroyed but not only hurting itself
I'd wish to be anything/one else
That vice that is me
I dangle by a string
I think that goes to say I've a fear of falling
And bad metaphors :O
My life is a vice connected
To a string on the mantle, strung up against the bracket;
Where the mirror once was held.
It dangles, but as doors slam
IT shudders weakening the string where
The tension builds up
Don't want it to tether
And drop through the floor boards
For it would pull this whole coven down
Wall by wall
With only the doorways intact
Being destroyed but not only hurting itself
I'd wish to be anything/one else
That vice that is me
I dangle by a string
I think that goes to say I've a fear of falling
And bad metaphors :O
Pravus
Forum Posts: 206
Thought Provoker
7
Joined 5th Oct 2011Forum Posts: 206
how many are we allowed? and are we allowed reposts?
Pravus
Forum Posts: 206
Thought Provoker
7
Joined 5th Oct 2011Forum Posts: 206
-I Fear Death-
darkness, pure freezing darkness
this cold burns
i dont know where i am
i cant see, smell, hear, or taste
all i feel is the bench rocking
my hearing starts to return
i hear waves lapping at the hull, the baying of hounds in the distance
i hear the tortured screams of those in the feilds of punishment
i begin to smell, its burning flesh and sulfur
i still have no taste
all i see is a dark shoreline
in the distance i see a dark castle with purple fires
...
in the back of the boat is Anubus
the ferryman of the dead
his laughter is two bones smacking together
it makes me nauseous
as i enter the feilds of asphodel i am snatched into the air
and taken to the castle
i am required to meet Osiris, the god of death
but i am fearful
i am fearful of Death
darkness, pure freezing darkness
this cold burns
i dont know where i am
i cant see, smell, hear, or taste
all i feel is the bench rocking
my hearing starts to return
i hear waves lapping at the hull, the baying of hounds in the distance
i hear the tortured screams of those in the feilds of punishment
i begin to smell, its burning flesh and sulfur
i still have no taste
all i see is a dark shoreline
in the distance i see a dark castle with purple fires
...
in the back of the boat is Anubus
the ferryman of the dead
his laughter is two bones smacking together
it makes me nauseous
as i enter the feilds of asphodel i am snatched into the air
and taken to the castle
i am required to meet Osiris, the god of death
but i am fearful
i am fearful of Death
Anonymous
fools and more fools, afraid of death, that sloppy bogeyman
I am afraid of a weakened mind
and of civil unrest;
war and famine touching home
cruelties to the living
death is nothing
how you'll die
far more important
quick
fast
asleep
I knew a man once
drove drunk into a ditch
had eels chew his legs off
all night
and lived
trust me
during that night
he wanted to die
prayed for it
fools fear death
yet it is only
unsensing sleep
oblivion
easy
I have died several times
brought back on the table
or in the ambulance
feeling worse for wear
from the dying
not the death
harden up
and quit bitching
I am afraid of a weakened mind
and of civil unrest;
war and famine touching home
cruelties to the living
death is nothing
how you'll die
far more important
quick
fast
asleep
I knew a man once
drove drunk into a ditch
had eels chew his legs off
all night
and lived
trust me
during that night
he wanted to die
prayed for it
fools fear death
yet it is only
unsensing sleep
oblivion
easy
I have died several times
brought back on the table
or in the ambulance
feeling worse for wear
from the dying
not the death
harden up
and quit bitching
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
Forum Posts: 1347
The Gardener
Tyrant of Words
28
Joined 10th Oct 2010Forum Posts: 1347
Faces in the curtains
Night time's a difficult one for me,
well, darkness in general to be quite honest with you.
I like it when everything is peaceful and faces don't appear
in the shadows of a table or curtain or door frame.
They always linger and force me toward dreaming.
I hate nightmares,
believe me,
you haven't seen a nightmare until you've lived
inside my leg or chest or head
for a time.
Just please don't be a face in the curtain,
you know I really don't like those.
Night time's a difficult one for me,
well, darkness in general to be quite honest with you.
I like it when everything is peaceful and faces don't appear
in the shadows of a table or curtain or door frame.
They always linger and force me toward dreaming.
I hate nightmares,
believe me,
you haven't seen a nightmare until you've lived
inside my leg or chest or head
for a time.
Just please don't be a face in the curtain,
you know I really don't like those.
Splint
Joined 29th Dec 2011
Forum Posts: 38
Lost Thinker
Forum Posts: 38
Morning sunshine
What I fear is fear itself,
Unknown land, or far off sea,
A spider sitting on the shelf,
These things are fear to me,
Fear is in all I do,
Afraid of failure,
Afraid for you,
Afraid of your grandeur,
Afraid of dying in my sleep,
Afraid of crying all alone,
Afraid of taking that final leap,
Afraid of answering my Fkn phone,
Afraid to step outside today,
Afraid of all the things they say,
Afraid, afraid, afraid,
I'm afraid of afraid,
Its ruling all I do,
Most of all my sweet little love,
I'm afraid of losing you.
What I fear is fear itself,
Unknown land, or far off sea,
A spider sitting on the shelf,
These things are fear to me,
Fear is in all I do,
Afraid of failure,
Afraid for you,
Afraid of your grandeur,
Afraid of dying in my sleep,
Afraid of crying all alone,
Afraid of taking that final leap,
Afraid of answering my Fkn phone,
Afraid to step outside today,
Afraid of all the things they say,
Afraid, afraid, afraid,
I'm afraid of afraid,
Its ruling all I do,
Most of all my sweet little love,
I'm afraid of losing you.
mbass33
matthew bass
Forum Posts: 334
matthew bass
Fire of Insight
7
Joined 22nd Nov 2010Forum Posts: 334
Broken
Darkness doesn´t scare me;
isolation does.
The cold wind
blowing soft needles
between the thinning threads
of an unwashed blue hoodie does.
Prosperity is sickness.
Courtesy is blind
on an evening stroll
through urban-planned beauty,
and you are broken
like me.
Torture:
is the way you put faith
in something that will never
love you back.
is the way you drool over
the prose of half-naked half-wits
because their juices
dribble
on the tip
of your tongue.
to wake up
and play the same piano scales
without ever listening
every morning.
to fall asleep
in the warm bosom
of archaic tradition
without ever caring
every night.
TheDreamDancer
Joined 17th Aug 2011
Forum Posts: 40
Lost Thinker
Forum Posts: 40
To weaken
i'm afraid of loseing my mind,
only because of the sweet memories of you and i.
To one day wake up,
finding all the hate and anger i've saved up over the years,
becomeing like acid,
eating at my sanity and reason,
putting me in an endless loop of destruction,
in which i had fallen into only a year ago in time.
To hurt you and not feel the concection, not to drop down on my knees and die...
I am afraid of what you are scared of my love,
because to me you'll never die,
you'll always be mine,
but to have you taken away by these....
What i hold to my heart so dearly is the fears i hide inside
i'm afraid of loseing my mind,
only because of the sweet memories of you and i.
To one day wake up,
finding all the hate and anger i've saved up over the years,
becomeing like acid,
eating at my sanity and reason,
putting me in an endless loop of destruction,
in which i had fallen into only a year ago in time.
To hurt you and not feel the concection, not to drop down on my knees and die...
I am afraid of what you are scared of my love,
because to me you'll never die,
you'll always be mine,
but to have you taken away by these....
What i hold to my heart so dearly is the fears i hide inside
raorrick
Rachel O.
Forum Posts: 1590
Rachel O.
Dangerous Mind
14
Joined 17th Nov 2011Forum Posts: 1590
I fear dying alone
I am lying alone
I am about to die
No one is near
No one will cry
I have my regrets
I have such sorrow
No more my life
No more tomorrow
I loved you hard
I loved them deep
I wasn't enough
I wasn't to keep
About to be gone
About to decease
No chance for sorry
No chance for peace
I will die alone
I will not embrace
Your wonderful arms
Your wonderful face
You broke me down
You broke my heart
Alone I survived
Alone I depart
I am lying alone
I am about to die
No one is near
No one will cry
I have my regrets
I have such sorrow
No more my life
No more tomorrow
I loved you hard
I loved them deep
I wasn't enough
I wasn't to keep
About to be gone
About to decease
No chance for sorry
No chance for peace
I will die alone
I will not embrace
Your wonderful arms
Your wonderful face
You broke me down
You broke my heart
Alone I survived
Alone I depart