Poetry competition CLOSED 17th February 2013 4:56pm
WINNER
Quill-in-Heart (Tony Pena)
Quill-in-Heart (Tony Pena)
RUNNERS-UP:
jaspersilence
and southernmoonlight
The New Creature Feature
Poetry Contest Description
You've heard of Zombies, Vampires, Dragons, Werewolves, and many more, but in this competition you have to create your own.
Create your own fictional Creature.
Can't be a rip off of an existing one or anything from Media(TV, Video games, Comic books, etc etc).
Explain what your creature is and what it can do.
Make it believable.
Now write a narrative poem or short story about the creature.
Titles requested but not a rule
Two creatures/poems per poet.
Shoot for a good length, not to short, but not to lonnnnggg.
No reposts or collabs.
Go at it kids, adults, big kids, ghosts and zombies, seniors, and whatever else there is.
Can't be a rip off of an existing one or anything from Media(TV, Video games, Comic books, etc etc).
Explain what your creature is and what it can do.
Make it believable.
Now write a narrative poem or short story about the creature.
Titles requested but not a rule
Two creatures/poems per poet.
Shoot for a good length, not to short, but not to lonnnnggg.
No reposts or collabs.
Go at it kids, adults, big kids, ghosts and zombies, seniors, and whatever else there is.
I know this is a bit hard so I'll have a swing at it for an example.
As far as I know, this should be original. If not, someone let me know. Anyway this female creature hides in the sky and floats to the ground to feed. She uses her skin that glows like the stars to lure prey, then she eats their eyes. Not as deadly as some, but I like it.
Starin
-----------------
The dead of hthe night
Stars so bright
One brighter than most
One that loved to boast
She came down from the heavens
The Cosmos's brethren
The starlight
She shines so bright
She's a specter
Golden shining nectar
Beauty so pure
Your eyeballs are hers
She will feast
On your seeing meat
As far as I know, this should be original. If not, someone let me know. Anyway this female creature hides in the sky and floats to the ground to feed. She uses her skin that glows like the stars to lure prey, then she eats their eyes. Not as deadly as some, but I like it.
Starin
-----------------
The dead of hthe night
Stars so bright
One brighter than most
One that loved to boast
She came down from the heavens
The Cosmos's brethren
The starlight
She shines so bright
She's a specter
Golden shining nectar
Beauty so pure
Your eyeballs are hers
She will feast
On your seeing meat
Ok Levi. I'll bite (pun intended)
Vicissattero
There was a time even wise men
Thought the earth flat, the world
Relevant only so far as the eye
Can see, but lurking in the blindness
Of man’s eye hiding in the seams
Between the world as we know
Her and one beyond metaphysical
Comprehension lurks Vicissattero,
A slithering voyeur with rotten teeth,
Fungal skin and rancid heart
Spying your most intimate moments.
In the broad daylight of a high noon
With office workers lunching outside
By stone fountains, children romping
In primary colored jungle gyms,
Shadows of the purest souls
Cast and swallowed by the lesion
Coated throat seen only by the soon
To be damned lying in wait in purgatory.
The darkest meat of hearts virtuous
Sucked through a stiletto lined gullet
Four hundred miles to a fool’s heaven.
Ingested, digested and regurgitated
Into a flagitious rainfall infecting
The weak of will with the desire to kill.
Rid of resident evil, the pure just fodder
For the armies of death who spear
Dreams and chew on the fat of faith
For sustenance. For in the reign
Of Vicissattero, self worth and promise
To see tomorrow is measured
In the pain and blood of innocents.
Vicissattero
There was a time even wise men
Thought the earth flat, the world
Relevant only so far as the eye
Can see, but lurking in the blindness
Of man’s eye hiding in the seams
Between the world as we know
Her and one beyond metaphysical
Comprehension lurks Vicissattero,
A slithering voyeur with rotten teeth,
Fungal skin and rancid heart
Spying your most intimate moments.
In the broad daylight of a high noon
With office workers lunching outside
By stone fountains, children romping
In primary colored jungle gyms,
Shadows of the purest souls
Cast and swallowed by the lesion
Coated throat seen only by the soon
To be damned lying in wait in purgatory.
The darkest meat of hearts virtuous
Sucked through a stiletto lined gullet
Four hundred miles to a fool’s heaven.
Ingested, digested and regurgitated
Into a flagitious rainfall infecting
The weak of will with the desire to kill.
Rid of resident evil, the pure just fodder
For the armies of death who spear
Dreams and chew on the fat of faith
For sustenance. For in the reign
Of Vicissattero, self worth and promise
To see tomorrow is measured
In the pain and blood of innocents.
THE HERD
Fangs as long as Eiffel's,
claws as sharp as blades.
Spits green phlegm out like rifles,
with fur that needs not braids.
As tall as that a building,
with skin as thick as stones.
No eye in sight if feeding,
then ten shows up as thrones.
It smells all things its eating,
with hands for tongues it groans.
Mouths in mouths they're bleeding,
from men with all these bones.
I see some in here still living,
they're holding all their phones.
I see it's tail now whipping,
the city, all, it moans.
In close inspection now I see,
the beast has fur made of me!
Yes, its fur made up of men,
each one eaten a fur grows then.
Its claws too, how can this be,
made from poor old Lady Liberty.
This red and vile foul creature,
eats everything with leisure.
So I conclude before it's late,
what it eats, forms full with it.
I too now see Egyptian fangs,
in fact all Egypt his mouth it hangs.
Its eight limbs grow with every step,
the ocean loses all its depth.
We're all undone, we're all undone,
when this thing eats us its all but fun!
I now hear missiles, its coming here,
dear God, my Father, this now I fear!
Al nations come, undo their son,
this creature once they made a pun.
When those all hit, a scratch made, none,
the jets all perished, all is gone.
The creature talked, it uttered words,
"Fear me all humans, I'm you in herds!"
Fangs as long as Eiffel's,
claws as sharp as blades.
Spits green phlegm out like rifles,
with fur that needs not braids.
As tall as that a building,
with skin as thick as stones.
No eye in sight if feeding,
then ten shows up as thrones.
It smells all things its eating,
with hands for tongues it groans.
Mouths in mouths they're bleeding,
from men with all these bones.
I see some in here still living,
they're holding all their phones.
I see it's tail now whipping,
the city, all, it moans.
In close inspection now I see,
the beast has fur made of me!
Yes, its fur made up of men,
each one eaten a fur grows then.
Its claws too, how can this be,
made from poor old Lady Liberty.
This red and vile foul creature,
eats everything with leisure.
So I conclude before it's late,
what it eats, forms full with it.
I too now see Egyptian fangs,
in fact all Egypt his mouth it hangs.
Its eight limbs grow with every step,
the ocean loses all its depth.
We're all undone, we're all undone,
when this thing eats us its all but fun!
I now hear missiles, its coming here,
dear God, my Father, this now I fear!
Al nations come, undo their son,
this creature once they made a pun.
When those all hit, a scratch made, none,
the jets all perished, all is gone.
The creature talked, it uttered words,
"Fear me all humans, I'm you in herds!"
