Poetry competition CLOSED 24th April 2012 11:23am
WINNER
MrAlptraum (Mr A)
MrAlptraum (Mr A)
Against the ebbing tides
Poetry Contest Description
Ponder on the above title and write a poem
Ponder on the title of the competition: Flesh it out and apply your story telling prowess, add in your creativity and tell us a story in a poem.
Rule 1: The poem must be 200 words or below.
Rule 2: The poem should be about the above title; according to your interpretation. Poems should be new.
Rule 3: Just one entry per person.
Inviting all DUP friends and family to enter the competition. Thank You!!
Rule 1: The poem must be 200 words or below.
Rule 2: The poem should be about the above title; according to your interpretation. Poems should be new.
Rule 3: Just one entry per person.
Inviting all DUP friends and family to enter the competition. Thank You!!
Anonymous
This poem is less than half an hour old... So technically new... But please may I enter it? It fits so well with this theme.
The Glass House.
I waited for you, always,
in the glass house on the beach
In the swim towards the rebirth of dawn
dwelling in the cradle of the swell,
were we remained lost in the intimate déjà vu
of those timeless entangled days
And i was too far gone in your ways
as the sun beamed spherical light
through the prism sheets.
Yet, when our lungs locked in beautiful awe
the panes smashed to dust
upon the salted shore.
The Glass House.
I waited for you, always,
in the glass house on the beach
In the swim towards the rebirth of dawn
dwelling in the cradle of the swell,
were we remained lost in the intimate déjà vu
of those timeless entangled days
And i was too far gone in your ways
as the sun beamed spherical light
through the prism sheets.
Yet, when our lungs locked in beautiful awe
the panes smashed to dust
upon the salted shore.
Oh, all the times,
ever I spent,
all alone,
in my mind,
in my own world,
I longed for you,
my companion.
And I met you one day,
and we found that,
we found eachother,
good company,
so on we journeyed,
together as one,
to find a joy,
that we both longed.
Life must hurt,
for us to heal,
and we must heal,
for us to learn,
and hurting and healing and learning is easier,
when the person beside you is the best kind of healer.
And come with time,
happiness and tranquility,
and all our fears gone to hide,
for now our love is strong as ever,
we will flow,
against the ebbing tides.
ever I spent,
all alone,
in my mind,
in my own world,
I longed for you,
my companion.
And I met you one day,
and we found that,
we found eachother,
good company,
so on we journeyed,
together as one,
to find a joy,
that we both longed.
Life must hurt,
for us to heal,
and we must heal,
for us to learn,
and hurting and healing and learning is easier,
when the person beside you is the best kind of healer.
And come with time,
happiness and tranquility,
and all our fears gone to hide,
for now our love is strong as ever,
we will flow,
against the ebbing tides.
Incessant waves
lapping the shore
time moving on
towards silvery twilight
beyond...
but I stand firm and wait
for you, my love
against the ebbing tides
Dear DUP friends and family: you are encouraged and welcomed to join the competition.
lapping the shore
time moving on
towards silvery twilight
beyond...
but I stand firm and wait
for you, my love
against the ebbing tides
Dear DUP friends and family: you are encouraged and welcomed to join the competition.
Can't just vanish
She asks me "what's wrong?"
I reply "nothing"
but even in dreams I'm fenced in.
I'm an uneducated scholar
In this lukewarm fishbowl.
Dying between each
forgiving ripple,
observing how the others fly.
I am the weak with
an impenetrable
titanium mask, and
the bird with concrete wings
scaling the highest mountain
waiting for a hurricane.
My thoughts turn to a skeletal leaf
embedded in the unforgiving pavement.
One of Autumn's fossils.
It's then that I realize: You can't just depart
without leaving some trace.
She asks me "what's wrong?"
I reply "nothing"
but even in dreams I'm fenced in.
I'm an uneducated scholar
In this lukewarm fishbowl.
Dying between each
forgiving ripple,
observing how the others fly.
I am the weak with
an impenetrable
titanium mask, and
the bird with concrete wings
scaling the highest mountain
waiting for a hurricane.
My thoughts turn to a skeletal leaf
embedded in the unforgiving pavement.
One of Autumn's fossils.
It's then that I realize: You can't just depart
without leaving some trace.
I'm pulling at you to come back,
You flow far away
Like the waves of an ocean.
I'm stuck on this beach-
You know the one?
We came here together as family,
When I was very small.
Memories are foggy,
Yet I can still feel the sand,
How easy it was to get stuck.
I'm here, as the cold waters
Lick my legs, buried deep in grain.
Off you go,
Dragged or swimming,
But either way you go and leave me here alone.
Then you come back,
Teasingly painful,
Watching you come close to me.
It's funny, how I need the saving.
The water can't reach above my thighs.
But I'm drowning anyways,
And you seem to be breathing just fine.
Always you are fine,
That's why you ebb away again.
The waters turn black,
To match my tears,
You joggle back from there to here.
Still you haven't pulled me out-
Of my sandy prison,
And I'm drowning on air.
While you go and come safely,
From far out there-
At the edge, out of sight.
You flow far away
Like the waves of an ocean.
I'm stuck on this beach-
You know the one?
We came here together as family,
When I was very small.
Memories are foggy,
Yet I can still feel the sand,
How easy it was to get stuck.
I'm here, as the cold waters
Lick my legs, buried deep in grain.
Off you go,
Dragged or swimming,
But either way you go and leave me here alone.
Then you come back,
Teasingly painful,
Watching you come close to me.
It's funny, how I need the saving.
The water can't reach above my thighs.
But I'm drowning anyways,
And you seem to be breathing just fine.
Always you are fine,
That's why you ebb away again.
The waters turn black,
To match my tears,
You joggle back from there to here.
Still you haven't pulled me out-
Of my sandy prison,
And I'm drowning on air.
While you go and come safely,
From far out there-
At the edge, out of sight.
you held out a towel as I came in from the water
smelling like salt and summer, smiling crookedly at me
from that moment on, we were inseparable
a sweaty slip of paper with a phone number
clutched in my sweaty palm
held a promise of a promise
when I later lifted my white lace veil
you still had that crooked smile
and I took your hand again
when my hair hung in sweaty strands
face whitened from anemia
holding a too-small red baby girl
you reached around my IV
held my shaky hand
stammered to get the words out
tears falling into your lopsided grin
still deeply in love after all this time
now sunset stretches over the ocean
I shiver against my light jacket,
look to my towel and you are not there
I like to think you are looking over me
I know you will be on the other side, waiting
once I am finished standing
against the ebbing tide.
smelling like salt and summer, smiling crookedly at me
from that moment on, we were inseparable
a sweaty slip of paper with a phone number
clutched in my sweaty palm
held a promise of a promise
when I later lifted my white lace veil
you still had that crooked smile
and I took your hand again
when my hair hung in sweaty strands
face whitened from anemia
holding a too-small red baby girl
you reached around my IV
held my shaky hand
stammered to get the words out
tears falling into your lopsided grin
still deeply in love after all this time
now sunset stretches over the ocean
I shiver against my light jacket,
look to my towel and you are not there
I like to think you are looking over me
I know you will be on the other side, waiting
once I am finished standing
against the ebbing tide.
Anonymous
The Ebb less Tide
On a rocky coast
A latex boat
Sails over
Sharpened peaks
Foaming inlets
It seeks
Reprieve
Broken sails
Of papered waste
Inside is lost
Wet, disgraced
Blown over
Lost to time
Nothing left
But the ebbing tide
