For What Nostalgia Is Worth

Choose your favorite poem of your own, and post it here. Choose the one you simply could not ever part with and enter it here. The best entry wins. Pretty simple, right?

Rules:

Old poems only
One entry per poet
No word limit, but not more than 20 lines (Stanza spacing isn't a line)
Leave a link to the original
Include the title
Have fun

*Edit*: it is not necessary to leave the entire poem on the thread, a link alone will be just fine. I say that for those of you using a mobile device, so all you have to do is type the URL.

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Snugglebuck, your entry is appreciated, but I did not find it anywhere in your poems list. I meant old poems that you wrote, not just any old poem. However, your entry is still appreciated.

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/124435-old-friend/ Old Friend


You came out of
nowhere
Wanting to be
friends
In the end, you
ended up
being the nuisance
I despised
You followed me,
bothered me
Till I could'nt take
it any longer
What happened with
you and me?
I honestly can't
understand how our friendship just
went down hill
Just like that
It happened so quickly
I didn't want to hurt you in the
beginning
But I had to do it in the
end
Do you understand?
It all came down to this
Now what will you do
old friend?

"Get Up Bitch!"


Self doubt confounds me              
i feel like i'm stumbling              
about blindfolded              
where stagnant air              
hangs heavy over my head              
choking me with dust filled clouds              
of self mockery.              
               
i have an alter ego              
i've tied her tonuge              
swept her under the carpet              
though i can hear her now              
shadowing my steps                
she's catching up with me              
talking to me silently through a stitched mouth              
"Get up bitch and do something!"              
               
She tears at her binds                
that i thought strangled her              
"I will take control!"              
               
Her mouth bleeding at the corners              
she's ripped the stitches              
screaming now with a wicked smirk on her face              
she is crashing down on me now              
i feel empowered and enslaved at the same time              
dangerous lady that she is              
gives me voice when i'm too meek to utter a word.              
               
Like thunder her thoughts              
crash down upon my head              
like a whirlwind              
defending me now              
she stands proud inside my shoes              
I find I'm free confounded no more              
set free by my alter ego seeing this lady is me              
razor sharp not the candy coated bullshit i pretend to be.

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/55601-my-alter-ego/

Question: can it be a bit longer than 20 lines? All mine average at about 25-30.

Thank you guys, I'm glad to see this competition taking off. I thought it was going to stall, like all my other competitions. Crimsin, I have already read yours, and it is a great entry. I can see why you're attatched to it. I have yet to read the others, but I'm going to do that right away.

Thanks so much for participating, guys! (Actually, come to think of it, you're all three girls... thanks girls! )

Yes, Missy, it can be a bit longer. I use that as a rule of thumb, it's not set in stone. By the way, guys, if you have a question about the comp, I'm not the type of person who cares whether you post it on the comp itself or message it to me, so feel free to leave your question as a comment.

*Edit*: I'm not actually going to hold you guys to the rule about the number of lines. If you really want, you could post a poem 150 lines long. I added that rule more as a warning that after 20 lines, the poem becomes intimidating to me, as I don't like long readings. I promise to read all entries, though, so if you have a longer poem, and you think it's still good enough to win first place despite going over, feel free to enter it.

My plesure, thanks for hosting this comp good luck with it

I've read all of the entries thus far, and it's already looking like this will be a tough decision. All of these entries are simply spectacular. By the way, to all members who have and those who will enter, I will leave my comment on your particular piece rather than in the thread. It's just simpler that way.

Also, I'd like to apologize. I had clicked Add To Reading List on two of the three entries and was getting ready to click it on the third entry, when I realized that it would be unfair of me to do that until the competition is over. My apologies.

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/73123-word-fetish/

Word Fetish

Write me a letter, a song
Hate mail, or anything
Combine nouns and adverbs
For that perfectly honed sting

Caress my frontal cortex
With that silver tongue
Seduce my synapses
This romance has begun

Your subtle nuances
Make it hard to detect
Quit boring me with platitudes
Molest me with your intellect

To seek and to find
My most sumptuous bits
To unclasp and grasp
My dazzling wits

I didn't think it ever
Needed to be said
The best foreplay I've had
Is when you play with my head

My mind to be precise
You cannot be mistaken
If you use the right words
There's no need to be faking

More adjectives and metaphors
I'm about to go insane
This isn't the only time
I take the lord's name in vain

Oh god I think I'm coming
To the inevitable conclusion
That this truly is
My only absolution

I penetrate your mind
When you hadn't a clue
My pen planted seed
I just mind fucked you too

I'm a sexual intellectual
In double entendre I dabble
I can't help but smile when asked;
"Who's down for some Scrabble?"

Oh sorry, this is what happens when you get old, 'you don't pay attention.'  Seriously, I was thinking by 'old' you meant poems that I wrote a long time ago.

I had to dig through to totes of scrap books to find this one.

'I'm very sorry!"

snugglebuck said:Oh sorry, this is what happens when you get old, 'you don't pay attention.'  Seriously, I was thinking by 'old' you meant poems that I wrote a long time ago.

I had to dig through to totes of scrap books to find this one.

'I'm very sorry!"

Sir, it's no big deal. I promise, everyone here has made a similar mistake at least once before. And if it is your own work, you can publish it on DUP, and for your sake, I will make an exception. If you publish that on DUP before the comp is over and you add a link here, I will count it towards the comp, even though it wasn't published before the start of the comp. I only make that exception because you said it was one you wrote a long time ago.

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/155522-never-the-end/

One of my faves <3