Poetry competition CLOSED 14th May 2013 7:05pm
WINNER
Myheartdiesforyou (Mysa)
Myheartdiesforyou (Mysa)
RUNNERS-UP:
cjmshadow
and Will_i_am
make me cry
Poetry Contest Description
sad tears, happy tears, tears of frustration or tears from laughing too hard...I don't care just make me cry. I want to have trouble reading your work through my tears. Touch me, make me cry
thank you everyone for your entries
this was a very hard choice to make
everyone should be very proud of
their entries.
CONGRATULATIONS Tin Man
this competition is yours!
to my runner ups great job as well
keep up the great work
thank you again
this was a very hard choice to make
everyone should be very proud of
their entries.
CONGRATULATIONS Tin Man
this competition is yours!
to my runner ups great job as well
keep up the great work
thank you again
Alone
She sits in the dark waiting for hope
A hope that will never be
Her baby brother cries in the background
Momma's coked out on the floor
She's selling herself
To make ends meet
Why did daddy have to go?
He left them on their own
So many years ago
Mommy doesn't care
Brings new men home every night
Snorting lines off the floor
Not caring what happens
On the other side of the door
Left on her own to raise her family
She finds comfort in the blade
Even though she's trying
It will never be the same
Pregnant now from trying to help
With a baby that takes more money
Can't stay in this hell
Don't know where to turn
She's all alone in this messed up world
Her daughter on the way
And no one to help her out
Mommy overdosed again
This time she's in the ground
Left alone with her baby brother
Baby's almost due
Looks like she'll be a mother
To not just one,but two
Breaks her heart to know
That she's all alone
With one swift slice of a knife
This tortured girl, took her life
She sits in the dark waiting for hope
A hope that will never be
Her baby brother cries in the background
Momma's coked out on the floor
She's selling herself
To make ends meet
Why did daddy have to go?
He left them on their own
So many years ago
Mommy doesn't care
Brings new men home every night
Snorting lines off the floor
Not caring what happens
On the other side of the door
Left on her own to raise her family
She finds comfort in the blade
Even though she's trying
It will never be the same
Pregnant now from trying to help
With a baby that takes more money
Can't stay in this hell
Don't know where to turn
She's all alone in this messed up world
Her daughter on the way
And no one to help her out
Mommy overdosed again
This time she's in the ground
Left alone with her baby brother
Baby's almost due
Looks like she'll be a mother
To not just one,but two
Breaks her heart to know
That she's all alone
With one swift slice of a knife
This tortured girl, took her life
Get's my hopes up :3
The Hours That Growl
Headlights flick on
as the sun goes down
although you're gone
night falls in the town
uneven camber road
rises to fall
my life a mere diode
fighting to be shone .
Every word
from my tongue
resounds aloud
the absurd
and the wrong
hurts with a pound
I sure do belong
interred to the ground
moments seem too long
in hours that growl .
The radio
in my car
plays its tunes
so happy and so far
from I in gloom
how dare the world
and stars
not feel my doom
they go along with Mars
in orbital zoom .
Stop !
god dammit now
and feel my pain
just drop
with all heads bowed
to this new phase
I hate all of how
it's 'Just another day'
please with me drown
in a sorrowful bad way .
I miss you
like a clout
a nail should receive
by a hammer
without doubt
in some hand
that's swinging free
I need you like a pout
needs kissing desperately
I beseech you
inside out
please come on home to me .
Headlights flick on
as the sun goes down
although you're gone
night falls in the town
uneven camber road
rises to fall
my life a mere diode
fighting to be shone .
Every word
from my tongue
resounds aloud
the absurd
and the wrong
hurts with a pound
I sure do belong
interred to the ground
moments seem too long
in hours that growl .
The radio
in my car
plays its tunes
so happy and so far
from I in gloom
how dare the world
and stars
not feel my doom
they go along with Mars
in orbital zoom .
Stop !
god dammit now
and feel my pain
just drop
with all heads bowed
to this new phase
I hate all of how
it's 'Just another day'
please with me drown
in a sorrowful bad way .
I miss you
like a clout
a nail should receive
by a hammer
without doubt
in some hand
that's swinging free
I need you like a pout
needs kissing desperately
I beseech you
inside out
please come on home to me .
Anonymous
The Hardest Day Ever
She wakes up half an hour earlier than usual
His side of the bed is cold for only the second time in fifty years
She spent so many years afraid to be alone
always comforted by his presence as darkness fell
sleeping soundly feeling assured by the strong man beside her
He'd usually bring her a cup of tea and the paper
then leave her to get herself together while he sat
in his favorite chair and did some reading
She pulled herself up and out to the kitchen
watched the kettle come to a boil clutching the tea towel
between her trembling hands
Even though he'd kept his promise to be faithfully at her side until his last breath...
It wasn't enough
After six children, ten grandchildren, and losing count of great grandchildren
after losing parents, friends, health, youth
together
after surviving the times as they changed and celebrating the journey
together
She would take this first day alone
thinking of his smile, hearing the echoes of his laughter,
knowing they would one day be
together
again.
She wakes up half an hour earlier than usual
His side of the bed is cold for only the second time in fifty years
She spent so many years afraid to be alone
always comforted by his presence as darkness fell
sleeping soundly feeling assured by the strong man beside her
He'd usually bring her a cup of tea and the paper
then leave her to get herself together while he sat
in his favorite chair and did some reading
She pulled herself up and out to the kitchen
watched the kettle come to a boil clutching the tea towel
between her trembling hands
Even though he'd kept his promise to be faithfully at her side until his last breath...
It wasn't enough
After six children, ten grandchildren, and losing count of great grandchildren
after losing parents, friends, health, youth
together
after surviving the times as they changed and celebrating the journey
together
She would take this first day alone
thinking of his smile, hearing the echoes of his laughter,
knowing they would one day be
together
again.
Anonymous
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CRY ME A RIVER
I cry so easily when reading the news
Widows and orphans dying before our eyes
Child soldiers hurling grenades
Protesters marching as others are jailed
"It is not fair" goes the universal cry
Which is so true and we do not know why
This has never stopped being a brutish world
The rich and the powerful exploiting a herd
Of impoverished ignorant desperate people
Risking their lives in mines and on oil rigs
Catastrophes happen daily and get TV coverage
Changes daily with one more shooting and another suicide
Supporting Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders
Sending money to a child in a Third World country
Believing I have done all I can do
Feeling guilty for having a life better in quality
Meanwhile the world does not change as money is still King
Greed still reigns as the rich say the poor are not trying
Do-gooders go on while people are still dying
Some by their enemies but some by their governments evil doings
So we think that if everybody got an education
We argue that everyone should have a democratic nation
Birth control or sustainable environments are words that mean
Nothing for the world is driven by mankind
The most evil of beings who revel in genocide.
CRY ME A RIVER
I cry so easily when reading the news
Widows and orphans dying before our eyes
Child soldiers hurling grenades
Protesters marching as others are jailed
"It is not fair" goes the universal cry
Which is so true and we do not know why
This has never stopped being a brutish world
The rich and the powerful exploiting a herd
Of impoverished ignorant desperate people
Risking their lives in mines and on oil rigs
Catastrophes happen daily and get TV coverage
Changes daily with one more shooting and another suicide
Supporting Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders
Sending money to a child in a Third World country
Believing I have done all I can do
Feeling guilty for having a life better in quality
Meanwhile the world does not change as money is still King
Greed still reigns as the rich say the poor are not trying
Do-gooders go on while people are still dying
Some by their enemies but some by their governments evil doings
So we think that if everybody got an education
We argue that everyone should have a democratic nation
Birth control or sustainable environments are words that mean
Nothing for the world is driven by mankind
The most evil of beings who revel in genocide.
Ripped from her belly
from warmth,and safety
to cold air,and light
also my twin.
we begin to fight.
lungs not developed
i forget to breathe.
They are pumping your heart,
to bring you back.
We are fighting the war
of the premature
Together we lay
in I.C.B.U.
doctors shaking
nurses through.
damn we gave them work to do,
I still don't know
to this day
why i survived
and you passed away
as it was me you see
they say had no chance
But instead now,
with the angels
you dance.
from warmth,and safety
to cold air,and light
also my twin.
we begin to fight.
lungs not developed
i forget to breathe.
They are pumping your heart,
to bring you back.
We are fighting the war
of the premature
Together we lay
in I.C.B.U.
doctors shaking
nurses through.
damn we gave them work to do,
I still don't know
to this day
why i survived
and you passed away
as it was me you see
they say had no chance
But instead now,
with the angels
you dance.
KATE
To My unborn daughter
who grew steadily in my womb
I picked out a name for you
a name that means the world to me
Kate, after my best friend
I bought clothes for you,
white and yellow onesies
white because you were the start of a brand new life
for me and for you
Yellow because as the sun is the center of our solar system,
you are the center of mine and brighter than a star
I sang to you, even though you weren't born yet
every night my lips produced the lullaby of Daisy Bell
and everyday I plucked fresh daisy's to place beside your crib
To my unborn daughter
I want to say I'm sorry
I'm sorry I'm so weak
that my body wasn't strong enough to hold you
I'm so sorry that you never even got the chance to breathe
But I love you, I will always love you
my wonderful unborn daughter Kate
To My unborn daughter
who grew steadily in my womb
I picked out a name for you
a name that means the world to me
Kate, after my best friend
I bought clothes for you,
white and yellow onesies
white because you were the start of a brand new life
for me and for you
Yellow because as the sun is the center of our solar system,
you are the center of mine and brighter than a star
I sang to you, even though you weren't born yet
every night my lips produced the lullaby of Daisy Bell
and everyday I plucked fresh daisy's to place beside your crib
To my unborn daughter
I want to say I'm sorry
I'm sorry I'm so weak
that my body wasn't strong enough to hold you
I'm so sorry that you never even got the chance to breathe
But I love you, I will always love you
my wonderful unborn daughter Kate
"Unfairness of a short life.."
the demons breath that stole the babys last..
was so an unfair omen of the darkness that was cast.
in a dark and ancient mausoleum its body lay so cold and alone.
the sadness of tears angels fell as the winds howled and groaned.
a cruel an unfair end to such a loving child.
for it was the mothers only little one which she had for a short while.
Now the mother lays in her bed dying of a broken and crushed heart.
The overpowering sadness of this cruel and endless life never ending but
always apart.
the demons breath that stole the babys last..
was so an unfair omen of the darkness that was cast.
in a dark and ancient mausoleum its body lay so cold and alone.
the sadness of tears angels fell as the winds howled and groaned.
a cruel an unfair end to such a loving child.
for it was the mothers only little one which she had for a short while.
Now the mother lays in her bed dying of a broken and crushed heart.
The overpowering sadness of this cruel and endless life never ending but
always apart.
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Dying Wish
Family dinner night and everyone is here
Reach for my wife’s hand, she fights back a tear
Voice is shaky as I ask all hear what I say
I got some very bad news from the doctor today
Here is what I want and here’s what I don’t
Some of you may agree, some of you won’t
These are my wishes, the last of my rights
My dying days and my final nights
No fancy box for this mortal house to Lay
Or a man of god with something to say
No church floor to soak up the tears
Turn my body to ash, burn all the years
There is no place for me in a row of stone
A prisoner of time, and weeds overgrown
Some roots in the earth can last forever
This is how I want us to stay together
With my ashes to offer dig a small hole in the earth
Place them in with the seed of a tree it will birth
Nurture this tree and carve in it my name
Forever I bask in the sun and dance in the rain.
Dying Wish
Family dinner night and everyone is here
Reach for my wife’s hand, she fights back a tear
Voice is shaky as I ask all hear what I say
I got some very bad news from the doctor today
Here is what I want and here’s what I don’t
Some of you may agree, some of you won’t
These are my wishes, the last of my rights
My dying days and my final nights
No fancy box for this mortal house to Lay
Or a man of god with something to say
No church floor to soak up the tears
Turn my body to ash, burn all the years
There is no place for me in a row of stone
A prisoner of time, and weeds overgrown
Some roots in the earth can last forever
This is how I want us to stay together
With my ashes to offer dig a small hole in the earth
Place them in with the seed of a tree it will birth
Nurture this tree and carve in it my name
Forever I bask in the sun and dance in the rain.
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The Bitter End
If I was transparent
the world could see
The little girl
and the lion in me
Sometimes i wonder
can god tell us apart?
Does he see the anger
that blankets my heart?
The light in me
slowly faded
The price you pay
when all love is jaded
I am not at fault
my hands are clean
Yet damage surrounds me
more is forseen
Crumbling under the weight
of this head
Starting to think
my angels are dead
The footprints of others
all over my skin
My love not returned
tossed in the bin
Boiling point
I don't even care
I now look at life
with a cold hard stare
Blood of my blood
denying the shame
Nobody's child
A borrowed name
The edge creeping closer
with every breath
Is it truth that sets you free
is it really death?
Buried inside this version of me
Loosing my grip on reality
Close to explosion
I am about to blow
The rage inside leaking
A constant flow
If I could just hold on
until I go insane
Set my mind free
make a stranger of pain
I don't think I can
contain this blast
Send my soul salvation
blank out the past
So sick and tired
this ageing struggle
When i close my eyes
I see the piles of rubble
I fight back, get up
try and try some more
It's always the same
I land face on the floor
When you scream out
as I have done
Take a good look
what I have become
As you beg for mercy
A desperate face
Watch me walk away
you drown in disgrace
It won't be long now
until the bitter end
The moment has passed
to slow my descend
Why could nobody see
what I was worth?
Faintly beating heart
abandoned at birth
Now justice is just
an empty word
I could have been saved
if my cries had been heard.
The Bitter End
If I was transparent
the world could see
The little girl
and the lion in me
Sometimes i wonder
can god tell us apart?
Does he see the anger
that blankets my heart?
The light in me
slowly faded
The price you pay
when all love is jaded
I am not at fault
my hands are clean
Yet damage surrounds me
more is forseen
Crumbling under the weight
of this head
Starting to think
my angels are dead
The footprints of others
all over my skin
My love not returned
tossed in the bin
Boiling point
I don't even care
I now look at life
with a cold hard stare
Blood of my blood
denying the shame
Nobody's child
A borrowed name
The edge creeping closer
with every breath
Is it truth that sets you free
is it really death?
Buried inside this version of me
Loosing my grip on reality
Close to explosion
I am about to blow
The rage inside leaking
A constant flow
If I could just hold on
until I go insane
Set my mind free
make a stranger of pain
I don't think I can
contain this blast
Send my soul salvation
blank out the past
So sick and tired
this ageing struggle
When i close my eyes
I see the piles of rubble
I fight back, get up
try and try some more
It's always the same
I land face on the floor
When you scream out
as I have done
Take a good look
what I have become
As you beg for mercy
A desperate face
Watch me walk away
you drown in disgrace
It won't be long now
until the bitter end
The moment has passed
to slow my descend
Why could nobody see
what I was worth?
Faintly beating heart
abandoned at birth
Now justice is just
an empty word
I could have been saved
if my cries had been heard.
