Poetry competition CLOSED 9th September 2013 8:48pm
WINNER
emo1
emo1
RUNNERS-UP:
PsychicApocalypse
and emmalouise
Loss of Innocence
Anonymous
Poetry Contest Description
Write a poem about an event that cost you your innocence.
Hello DU members. This is my first competition thread! I am so excited. Anyway, this is quite gloomy yet can also be quite cathartic. Every member here all 14,000 and growing is talented. We all write poetry and all get feedback, critiqued, and praised. However, writing poetry comes from a place of great emotion. For those who frequent dark themes or sinister love experiences or erotic situations in poetry are not full of innocence. We all know the world is not rose-colored like when we were very young kids and oblivious to it all. But whether it was a death, personal abuse, or a war (figurative and literal), most, if not all our innocence diminished. I want all of you to write a poem about yourself, someone you know, or a fictional, yet realistic situation that would diminish innocence. For me writing about my parents divorce and my first custody battle at age 5 is cathartic. At age 5 I knew the world wasn't pretty and consistently happy.
Requirements:
1. Any style
2. Can rhyme, does not have to
3. No collabs (as this is VERY personal)
4. No set length
5. New piece, please do not copy and paste a poem you wrote in the past
I hope this will be cathartic!!!
Requirements:
1. Any style
2. Can rhyme, does not have to
3. No collabs (as this is VERY personal)
4. No set length
5. New piece, please do not copy and paste a poem you wrote in the past
I hope this will be cathartic!!!
Anonymous
Great!
Anonymous
Thanks and I love your profile pic!
Depression
Where the demons took control,
Following strict patrol,
A good girl steps up to the plate,
Fighting in an injured state.
She fought bravely for so long,
She fought the enemies in the wrong.
In the end the demons ran.
She fell and cried in the sand.
The demons run, but count the cost.
The battle is won but the child is lost.
Anonymous
UnMaskedNoise, good entry and welcome to DU!
[b]Lost Innocence[/b]
They came in ships
With billowy sails
The men in black
With white round collars
They buried their stake
On our sandy beach
Clothe thyself heathens
wanton showing of thy body
sinful art thou in the eyes of God
sinners all parading thy flesh
They made us wrap
Cloth on our beauty
No more were we free
To swim in the waves in totality
To bask in the sun
To laugh at dew on pert nipples…
Instilled from elders of yore
We knew not adultery
No knowledge of the flesh
Until…for Virgins were we to our wedding beds
So wrapped we were
Knelt on hard earth to a foreign god
They said He made us
He didn’t provide us Cloth
The Padre said love was a sin
when blessed by Shamans
did not constitute marriage
We bowed our heads
They knew better the disciples
Of strange tongues
Nature washed out by baptism
Of water, yet from nature
Bowed to a God unknown
We stumbled on to the dawn
of the White
Losing the innocence
Along the way
They applauded
We were no longer ignorant
Or innocent.
They came in ships
With billowy sails
The men in black
With white round collars
They buried their stake
On our sandy beach
Clothe thyself heathens
wanton showing of thy body
sinful art thou in the eyes of God
sinners all parading thy flesh
They made us wrap
Cloth on our beauty
No more were we free
To swim in the waves in totality
To bask in the sun
To laugh at dew on pert nipples…
Instilled from elders of yore
We knew not adultery
No knowledge of the flesh
Until…for Virgins were we to our wedding beds
So wrapped we were
Knelt on hard earth to a foreign god
They said He made us
He didn’t provide us Cloth
The Padre said love was a sin
when blessed by Shamans
did not constitute marriage
We bowed our heads
They knew better the disciples
Of strange tongues
Nature washed out by baptism
Of water, yet from nature
Bowed to a God unknown
We stumbled on to the dawn
of the White
Losing the innocence
Along the way
They applauded
We were no longer ignorant
Or innocent.
Anonymous
Thank you Idryad (Grace)! I just posted a poem on your Be Quiet For Fear Of Evil Competition!
Anonymous
You're welcome. I hope more people post on my competition and yours!
Anonymous
INNOCENCE – Part 1 - Loss of Innocence of Youth
When I became eleven years old
I finally understood the stories my parents told
Of being persecuted for race and religion
All Jews were subject to persecution
When I was twelve I menstruated
Was ashamed, afraid of childbirth
Understood, in other countries
Women still died of it
When I was fifteen and wanted to date
My parents did not let me, nor was I asked
As Janis Joplin observed that love was meant
Not for me, I was not a beauty, neither was she
When I was twenty, I graduated
Got my B. Sc. But not had dated
Only realized too late,
Universities were to find a mate
When I was twenty two, I got my M. Sc.
Nobody cared, is she yet married?
Intelligence meant nothing and I was poor
The dowry system meant a rich father
Written on September 3, 2013
Anonymous
Thank you for posting. I wish my first competition thread will get more attention, but there is still time. I so thankful to all who have posted and to those who will...hopefully!!!
Anonymous
Thanks Idryad!!! I appreciate it.
