Poetry competition CLOSED 9th October 2012 11:43am
WINNER
OctoberArts (October)
OctoberArts (October)
RUNNERS-UP:
Lifeless_Loveless
and marielavoue
Oh Love...
Sean
I was older then, and you just a few years younger.
At least on the inside.
I'd forgotten what ecstacy was, the kind that wasn't
short lived or wasted with self-conciousness. You revealed to me
the simplest pleasures, of things like dancing with
your eyes closed and laughing when we fell.
It wasn't lost on me each time you tried, every
kiss held back with careful bites, every smile forbidden.
I felt savage stealing your hopes away. Pretending,
feigning disgust, even displeasure at your attempts.
How I longed to just lie on my trampoline with you
and listen to the dreams and debris enter the
atmosphere, as nothing disturbed ours.
I was older then, and you just a few years younger.
At least on the inside.
I'd forgotten what ecstacy was, the kind that wasn't
short lived or wasted with self-conciousness. You revealed to me
the simplest pleasures, of things like dancing with
your eyes closed and laughing when we fell.
It wasn't lost on me each time you tried, every
kiss held back with careful bites, every smile forbidden.
I felt savage stealing your hopes away. Pretending,
feigning disgust, even displeasure at your attempts.
How I longed to just lie on my trampoline with you
and listen to the dreams and debris enter the
atmosphere, as nothing disturbed ours.
Anonymous
Y, Te amo... by mikimoondancer
He
shaped my soul
coloured my aura
landscaped my dreams
Gave me a tomorrow
and that was all before I met him...
He
gave me purpose
drove my spirit
fired my synapses
removed the limits
Made me whole
the only one without control...
He keeps me humble
though I try to be bold
Keeps me burning
when I feel the nearing cold
Keeps me hopeful
Gives me something sure to hold
I'll always need him
like the planet needs the Sun
I've always loved him
he's always been my only one
Paper Clip Hearts
Your Perfect Paper Clip Heart
holds my life together
Keeps my thaughts organized
helps me to remain sane
Our Paper Clip Hearts
fit together perfectly
OHHHHH soo perfectly
when the world is unorganized
Lets use them to keep together
and when we cant be together
Were sooo far apart
Our Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
Hold us together
hold us as one
Bond us... to be perfect
As we continue to be perfect
in an unperfect world
We cant let the hard times get us down
lets use OUR Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
That WILL hold us together
Through the hard times, through the worry...
There will NEVER be any doubt
As our Paper Clip Hearts...
Hold us together
Because the Coldest, Darkest time of night
Is jus before day break
We jus have to hold on
Use OUR Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
To...
Keep us together
Bond OUR love
Secure OUR lives...
With eachother
Your Perfect Paper Clip Heart
holds my life together
Keeps my thaughts organized
helps me to remain sane
Our Paper Clip Hearts
fit together perfectly
OHHHHH soo perfectly
when the world is unorganized
Lets use them to keep together
and when we cant be together
Were sooo far apart
Our Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
Hold us together
hold us as one
Bond us... to be perfect
As we continue to be perfect
in an unperfect world
We cant let the hard times get us down
lets use OUR Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
That WILL hold us together
Through the hard times, through the worry...
There will NEVER be any doubt
As our Paper Clip Hearts...
Hold us together
Because the Coldest, Darkest time of night
Is jus before day break
We jus have to hold on
Use OUR Perfect Paper Clip Hearts
To...
Keep us together
Bond OUR love
Secure OUR lives...
With eachother
Anonymous
Pious .
You declare warfare within my
un-solved mind.
On bended knee
I recite my emotions -
a prayer in the darkness
of my divine soul.
And I whisper
my wor-ship
in solitude…
“I am loyal
to your every
- pant
- gasp
& breath.
Fervent to your existence,
beyond any words
devoted to your judgments
virtuous to your well-being
devout of your desire
& protective
of your heart.
My emotions
surpass
another
“I – love - you” cliché.
This is my prayer of
spiritual - dedication,
honour & devotion.
Devout always.
Amen . ”
-x-
Anonymous
Hardcore Love Poem .
Consign these words across your skin
brand them in your mind
ink the letters to your lungs
ram them in your heart.
Like a wager.
Listen as I say them
suffer them in your veins
watch my lips
as you read their meaning.
Ride the letters in your
desire.
Take these words,
each pause;
each symbol
each accent
and feel them
control-your-hips.
Now wear them
in your
panties
with confidence.
“I am devoted
beyond any
m e a s u r e
of love”.
-x-
My Sun. Our Diamond
Earth...
She's bleeding
Thunder is rolling
and rain is falling
Earthquakes shake her
Break her to peices
But her core
Is still well kept together
By the gravity
of her Sun
Yet, she struggles
to bloom her flowers
Her skin... is dying
And the air around her
causes wind storms
of such Horrific events
But deep inside
Inside her core
Diamonds commence
Solidly formed
Growing. With warmth
Warmth from her heart
and the Glow of her Sun
Protected by iron
Impenetrable Amity
That loves her
until the end of the Galaxy
The Sun wishes
to hold her
But she will burn
he will be punished
When all he wants to do
Is
Love Her
And keep her from danger
From the evil
that wants to discpline her
The evil
that shuns her Sun
He is
Her Guidence
Her Guardian
He holds her Soul
The Fundamental key
He gives light
Makes her captivated!
Sheilds
THEIR
Diamond
That they made
with ALL of their Love
A Beautiful Diamond
Perfectly
Concieved.
Earth...
She's bleeding
Thunder is rolling
and rain is falling
Earthquakes shake her
Break her to peices
But her core
Is still well kept together
By the gravity
of her Sun
Yet, she struggles
to bloom her flowers
Her skin... is dying
And the air around her
causes wind storms
of such Horrific events
But deep inside
Inside her core
Diamonds commence
Solidly formed
Growing. With warmth
Warmth from her heart
and the Glow of her Sun
Protected by iron
Impenetrable Amity
That loves her
until the end of the Galaxy
The Sun wishes
to hold her
But she will burn
he will be punished
When all he wants to do
Is
Love Her
And keep her from danger
From the evil
that wants to discpline her
The evil
that shuns her Sun
He is
Her Guidence
Her Guardian
He holds her Soul
The Fundamental key
He gives light
Makes her captivated!
Sheilds
THEIR
Diamond
That they made
with ALL of their Love
A Beautiful Diamond
Perfectly
Concieved.
Remembering Kristallnacht
Is it love
in the marshes
for the sun is down
and t'is cold
to be locked in a dungeon
with metal bars
and empty stars
Is it love to be across the oceans
surrounded by cold currents and
the sharks of teeth,
in this great underneath
deep dark deep dark
tinkle tinkle
not a twinkle
Is it love
if liberty is in chains
and the veins of men
are blue
for the women too.
Slaves enter this courthouse
one by one
upon which judgement
upon which bare breasts
and empty nests
until the hammer down
Ah the frown
Is it love if birds blue
if your lover too
and the world cruel
All the Hitlers that killed love
and life
that stamped numbers
that made tattoos out of men,
bones out of souls
and fires out of books
Remember Kristallnacht
Is it love if ye killed
if ye music stills,
less the lust
and t'is for you
black daffodills
When ye sleep at night
where does it end
and when ye awake
in thee sweats and stares
What of all your tomorrows.
Is it love
In the comas of Morpheus
dost come Thanatos
and our dreams are not
Is it love if you fall,
less humanity's grace
And all that's left are numbers,
is it love?
Is it love
in the marshes
for the sun is down
and t'is cold
to be locked in a dungeon
with metal bars
and empty stars
Is it love to be across the oceans
surrounded by cold currents and
the sharks of teeth,
in this great underneath
deep dark deep dark
tinkle tinkle
not a twinkle
Is it love
if liberty is in chains
and the veins of men
are blue
for the women too.
Slaves enter this courthouse
one by one
upon which judgement
upon which bare breasts
and empty nests
until the hammer down
Ah the frown
Is it love if birds blue
if your lover too
and the world cruel
All the Hitlers that killed love
and life
that stamped numbers
that made tattoos out of men,
bones out of souls
and fires out of books
Remember Kristallnacht
Is it love if ye killed
if ye music stills,
less the lust
and t'is for you
black daffodills
When ye sleep at night
where does it end
and when ye awake
in thee sweats and stares
What of all your tomorrows.
Is it love
In the comas of Morpheus
dost come Thanatos
and our dreams are not
Is it love if you fall,
less humanity's grace
And all that's left are numbers,
is it love?
Instead of Heaven
The loneliness of
a birdcall from a birdcage
over the top of my head,
Neanderthal I feel,
White picket fences not
Tears wetting a bit
Breath panting a little more
Where are all the good poets
Screaming from rooftops
Where are you?
Until I fall
Instead of heaven,
Hell
Surrounded by poppy leaves
Embracing heaven
Except once again
it's Hell
He'll know my call
From one Neanderthal to another
Across the lonely suburban picket fences
The perfect windy driveways
I wonder if he gets lonely too
Walking down these slippery slopes
It's 4am and very quiet
The only thing between my good self and God,
The damn tinnitus
Surrounded by Dorothy Porters' Love Poems,
The crumpled doona of single
And the longing for you.
6am, still waiting
The loneliness of
a birdcall from a birdcage
over the top of my head,
Neanderthal I feel,
White picket fences not
Tears wetting a bit
Breath panting a little more
Where are all the good poets
Screaming from rooftops
Where are you?
Until I fall
Instead of heaven,
Hell
Surrounded by poppy leaves
Embracing heaven
Except once again
it's Hell
He'll know my call
From one Neanderthal to another
Across the lonely suburban picket fences
The perfect windy driveways
I wonder if he gets lonely too
Walking down these slippery slopes
It's 4am and very quiet
The only thing between my good self and God,
The damn tinnitus
Surrounded by Dorothy Porters' Love Poems,
The crumpled doona of single
And the longing for you.
6am, still waiting
Christopher:
Christopher, I want to drive into the sunset with you.
I want to jump out of airplanes with you.
I want to grow wings instead of shoulder-blades so I can fly away with you.
Christopher.
I want to write a thousand anonymous love poems about you so I can love you in secret.
I want you to write me a million love songs that only I can hear.
I want you to lie to me when you say you love me just so I can tell you that your lies are as beautiful as you are.
Christopher.
I want you to be the only one to call you by your full name besides your mother.
Christopher, I think I would marry you, if you asked me.
Christopher, if you didn't ask me, I think I would still marry you.
Christopher
I want to fall in love you.
Christopher
I think I'm falling in love with you.
Christopher
I think I'm in love with you, because you're like breathing oxygen underwater.
I think I'm in love with you, because you get my poetry before I do.
I think I'm in love with you, because I have dreams about us ten years from now.
Christopher, I think I'm in love with you.
Christopher, I want to drive into the sunset with you.
I want to jump out of airplanes with you.
I want to grow wings instead of shoulder-blades so I can fly away with you.
Christopher.
I want to write a thousand anonymous love poems about you so I can love you in secret.
I want you to write me a million love songs that only I can hear.
I want you to lie to me when you say you love me just so I can tell you that your lies are as beautiful as you are.
Christopher.
I want you to be the only one to call you by your full name besides your mother.
Christopher, I think I would marry you, if you asked me.
Christopher, if you didn't ask me, I think I would still marry you.
Christopher
I want to fall in love you.
Christopher
I think I'm falling in love with you.
Christopher
I think I'm in love with you, because you're like breathing oxygen underwater.
I think I'm in love with you, because you get my poetry before I do.
I think I'm in love with you, because I have dreams about us ten years from now.
Christopher, I think I'm in love with you.
I wish…
Once you were my companion,
my friend and also my lover,
all that in life truly mattered
then my world stopped and shattered.
Somehow I wish here you were again
still my friend, that you were near;
it seems sometimes if I just dream
by some means you would be here.
If I could just hear your voice again
I perhaps could comprehend;
dreaming of you, time stands still
although I realize, hear you, I never will.
Cold and monumental stone gargoyles
see my passing insignificantly,
they seem wrong as companions,
you were gentle and warm, my D'Artanian.
Too many days fighting back tears
struggling with unspoken fears.
Just die past I so despise!
All you bring is agony without compromise!
I catch myself wishing you were here again
sharing an embrace dispelling fear’s reign
always knowing that after goodbye
there is nothing but an emptiness that won’t subside.
Try to forgive,
you asked me to live,
gave me the strength to try,
to never give up and dream as big as the sky!
No more memories or silent tears,
gazing across the wasted days and quiet fears,
to accept the inevitable, help me say goodbye,
to end this burgeoning love, once so sublime.
Gypsy red
BEFORE THE BENCH
That moonlight isn’t there at all
Some monkey stole it
No ring of hands or any dream
Ransacked, gone
Beneath thin tears
Brittle fingers leaf the tattered text
You’re not
We like to think we are
We’re not
We’re not immune
We’re not insured
No one is
Harlequin (Sept 2012)
In Memory of SCS July 84
That moonlight isn’t there at all
Some monkey stole it
No ring of hands or any dream
Ransacked, gone
Beneath thin tears
Brittle fingers leaf the tattered text
You’re not
We like to think we are
We’re not
We’re not immune
We’re not insured
No one is
Harlequin (Sept 2012)
In Memory of SCS July 84
No more need...
Long ago
When my heart roamed first
My gaze fell upon you
And my curse was reversed
We laughed and talked
And I enjoyed our time
It was like you were the only one
Who could never do any crime
Every time I looked at you
Your eyes looked the way I felt
Causing every single smile
To make my heart melt
It stayed like that for a while
Almost a year to be exact
But then I saw you do bad
Making my heart broken and cracked
And when I pulled myself away
From that new wicked curse called love
I realized you treated everyone else the same
And you needed to be disposed of
Because you smiled at everyone
The way you smiled at me
And made everyone else feel
What only could be decribed as need
Once I realized this
I left you with a frown
You may have been my first love
But I've moved on to a different town
Long ago
When my heart roamed first
My gaze fell upon you
And my curse was reversed
We laughed and talked
And I enjoyed our time
It was like you were the only one
Who could never do any crime
Every time I looked at you
Your eyes looked the way I felt
Causing every single smile
To make my heart melt
It stayed like that for a while
Almost a year to be exact
But then I saw you do bad
Making my heart broken and cracked
And when I pulled myself away
From that new wicked curse called love
I realized you treated everyone else the same
And you needed to be disposed of
Because you smiled at everyone
The way you smiled at me
And made everyone else feel
What only could be decribed as need
Once I realized this
I left you with a frown
You may have been my first love
But I've moved on to a different town
before i tear up. before i fuck up. before i get up. before im stuck up. i always think abut you. you were my drugs through the good and bad. no love drove me mad. and you kicked me to the curb.
your thought wakes the demon inside. your thought is the scream of an unstable mind. your thought is the endless night. and someone has turned out the lights.
the pain is gone but scarred. love was too far! a succubis is who you are. fuck you! this is tearing me apart. your gonna die! my heart is alread there, waiting for you in the land of the damned. and my mind is left with.
your thought is my 6 feet of dirt. your thought made my blood spurt. your gona pay! you inspire the hate! this is for you. remember me when they scream my name.
im not scared but impaired of my ability to care. beauty is insanity! happiness is a fantasy! not from anything! i'll see you in hell!
your thought wakes the demon inside. your thought is the scream of an unstable mind. your thought is the endless night. and someone has turned out the lights.
the pain is gone but scarred. love was too far! a succubis is who you are. fuck you! this is tearing me apart. your gonna die! my heart is alread there, waiting for you in the land of the damned. and my mind is left with.
your thought is my 6 feet of dirt. your thought made my blood spurt. your gona pay! you inspire the hate! this is for you. remember me when they scream my name.
im not scared but impaired of my ability to care. beauty is insanity! happiness is a fantasy! not from anything! i'll see you in hell!
