Poetry competition CLOSED 11th March 2014 2:08pm
WINNER
rain1courtel (RainC)
rain1courtel (RainC)
RUNNERS-UP:
whale
and snugglebuck
The Year You Were Born
Poetry Contest Description
What was going on in the world during your birth year?
Write a poem any style, length, on the events that happened in the world, be it global, local, in your family, etc during the year you were born. Obviously no collabs unless you're twins, and one entry each, unless you have proof that you've been reincarnated and have been born multiple times..Lol
Go! Have fun!
Go! Have fun!
Anonymous
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I just can't stand what I write anymore. Yech. :P
I just can't stand what I write anymore. Yech. :P
Pop rock
pants jumbo flares
concord collars
tightly permed hair
Manhattans playing
Kiss and say goodbye
Bionic women on the air
my first breath
kisses on my forehead
beautiful brown hair
happy moments
love to share
1976 is my year
pants jumbo flares
concord collars
tightly permed hair
Manhattans playing
Kiss and say goodbye
Bionic women on the air
my first breath
kisses on my forehead
beautiful brown hair
happy moments
love to share
1976 is my year
Anonymous
Oh, Madame, BTW, please don't think I've gone over to the feline alien coven. The poem is not an admission of belief in the film submitted... Suffice to say there was much BS, many hoaxes, coverups... just like any other year. lol. But yes, I was born Christams eve.
1956
In was born in the year of 1956
When the Vice President of the U.S.
Was a guy they called, ‘Tricky Dick’
So boring was the year of 1956
Who would have guessed?
My love for LSD and hippie chicks
Many are the war stories I could tell
Of my generation’s cultural revolution
Trouble is, I can’t remember them very well
Every time I ponder and try to recollect
I become confused and befuddled
Lost in a purple haze from the chemical affect
With my head banging into a wall of bricks
I’d best not keep trying to enumerate
On the significance of being born in 1956
In was born in the year of 1956
When the Vice President of the U.S.
Was a guy they called, ‘Tricky Dick’
So boring was the year of 1956
Who would have guessed?
My love for LSD and hippie chicks
Many are the war stories I could tell
Of my generation’s cultural revolution
Trouble is, I can’t remember them very well
Every time I ponder and try to recollect
I become confused and befuddled
Lost in a purple haze from the chemical affect
With my head banging into a wall of bricks
I’d best not keep trying to enumerate
On the significance of being born in 1956
ODE TO OTIS
A stowaway in the place of your berth
Not worth the price of a hearse.
Strange fruit deep in the earth,
In the year of my birth
Straw dogs barking orders
A soul drawn from muddy waters
Your bones rest at your farm in Georgia.
Iced lyrics, frozen in December waters
Your farm’s a home far from harm.
But anointed by a king, a doctor’s cure
That justice just is to do what he orders
Let waters calm and let love endure
Sometimes everything seems the same
But life can be a flight on a different plane
Or as stray as dock-dogs on a seagull bay.
Until things change.
A stowaway in the place of your berth
Not worth the price of a hearse.
Strange fruit deep in the earth,
In the year of my birth
Straw dogs barking orders
A soul drawn from muddy waters
Your bones rest at your farm in Georgia.
Iced lyrics, frozen in December waters
Your farm’s a home far from harm.
But anointed by a king, a doctor’s cure
That justice just is to do what he orders
Let waters calm and let love endure
Sometimes everything seems the same
But life can be a flight on a different plane
Or as stray as dock-dogs on a seagull bay.
Until things change.
1994
It smelled like teen spirit (what a mess that was)
We were bumpin and grindin
Makin love to you
But not doing that to the meatloaf
Swearing at all-4-one(hey don't look at me like that, they wrote a crap song)
Wild nights with John
And forgetting Mariah
Its ok Michael Bolton, I don't love you too
10 000 maniacs blaming the night
And learning sensless violence from Xcape
We lost a legend
But we gained one too
And that m'dears was '94
It smelled like teen spirit (what a mess that was)
We were bumpin and grindin
Makin love to you
But not doing that to the meatloaf
Swearing at all-4-one(hey don't look at me like that, they wrote a crap song)
Wild nights with John
And forgetting Mariah
Its ok Michael Bolton, I don't love you too
10 000 maniacs blaming the night
And learning sensless violence from Xcape
We lost a legend
But we gained one too
And that m'dears was '94
8691
The beautiful soar of Apollo 8
left earth’s orbit to waltz with the moon
returned Intel that prepared the way
One small step for man,
One giant leap for mankind
Women wept, children cried
unarmed and innocent
silenced forever, in a Vietnam massacre
brutal invasion of My Lai
casted a dark cloud upon Americans
Black& white screen flash footage
pastor ‘who had a dream’ Slain scene
Hatred; a coldhearted murderer
murdering one race with a single shot
killing hope in those who were…
Hopeful
Bayou brews down south
little girl born on a hot August day
Louisiana woman smile into a tiny face…
identical to her own
a beautiful moment in a historical year
~Rain~
The beautiful soar of Apollo 8
left earth’s orbit to waltz with the moon
returned Intel that prepared the way
One small step for man,
One giant leap for mankind
Women wept, children cried
unarmed and innocent
silenced forever, in a Vietnam massacre
brutal invasion of My Lai
casted a dark cloud upon Americans
Black& white screen flash footage
pastor ‘who had a dream’ Slain scene
Hatred; a coldhearted murderer
murdering one race with a single shot
killing hope in those who were…
Hopeful
Bayou brews down south
little girl born on a hot August day
Louisiana woman smile into a tiny face…
identical to her own
a beautiful moment in a historical year
~Rain~
Fuck outta here
Real world shit im from the realest world yet
Find russia out for days
Everyday a new way to explain how its like to give it up
All for a buck
Growing up - slut moms that recieve uppercuts and arms that deserved beating on
A good way to make money was to buy a pack of smokes and sell them outside the school
Or talk a girl into photos and sell them to the dude
Russia is cold suck a dick if you think my hearts not
Golf wang
Real world shit im from the realest world yet
Find russia out for days
Everyday a new way to explain how its like to give it up
All for a buck
Growing up - slut moms that recieve uppercuts and arms that deserved beating on
A good way to make money was to buy a pack of smokes and sell them outside the school
Or talk a girl into photos and sell them to the dude
Russia is cold suck a dick if you think my hearts not
Golf wang
