Poetry competition CLOSED 27th January 2015 7:15pm
WINNER
crimsin (Unveiling)
crimsin (Unveiling)
RUNNERS-UP:
JohnFeddeler
and LobodeSanPedro
It's Your Thing
Anonymous
Poetry Contest Description
see below for details...
Simple...
Take the title of the last song you listened to and write a short (under 100 words) piece, any style with the song title included in the piece
one or two entries each
2 weeks
new only
collabs ok, one trophy though :)
"Boadicea"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB64c9Uxgz4
Looking back at the paths I've traveled
abandoned little one at the age of three
momma on the streets at fifteen
a junkie chasing my fix
the rotating doors of the psych ward
at times feeling so alone
though you were there Mother Earth
rejuvenating and rebirthing my soul
with your oceans deep cleansing me with each wave
the forests a sacred and safe place
for me to take shelter in
slumbering on the mossy bed you provided
your great mountains the breasts of the Earth
from which my being suckled
you fed and sheltered my broken spirit
giving it peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB64c9Uxgz4
Looking back at the paths I've traveled
abandoned little one at the age of three
momma on the streets at fifteen
a junkie chasing my fix
the rotating doors of the psych ward
at times feeling so alone
though you were there Mother Earth
rejuvenating and rebirthing my soul
with your oceans deep cleansing me with each wave
the forests a sacred and safe place
for me to take shelter in
slumbering on the mossy bed you provided
your great mountains the breasts of the Earth
from which my being suckled
you fed and sheltered my broken spirit
giving it peace
Inspired by: Take Me To Church by Hozier
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw
Runaway
Please
Don't
Take me to church
I've run away from his House
Time and time again
Shaming my Father
My mother on her knees
As if what I've lost floats above her
She searches for it with her eyes closed
The beaten sun hangs over me
Seeping through the panes of our Father's house
Kaleidoscope of family portraits framed over the truth
He said spare the rod
Spoil the child
She says the Devil is gonna make me pay
But I don't merit the attention
He dangles from my neck
The chain's not strong enough
Otherwise I'd hang myself
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw
Runaway
Please
Don't
Take me to church
I've run away from his House
Time and time again
Shaming my Father
My mother on her knees
As if what I've lost floats above her
She searches for it with her eyes closed
The beaten sun hangs over me
Seeping through the panes of our Father's house
Kaleidoscope of family portraits framed over the truth
He said spare the rod
Spoil the child
She says the Devil is gonna make me pay
But I don't merit the attention
He dangles from my neck
The chain's not strong enough
Otherwise I'd hang myself
(song: Looking at the Moon - Tony Carey)
this is for you
this is for you, because you’re there
looking at the moon and seeing
love songs written upon it.
you’re trying to find the one that has
your name in the title, and it doesn’t
matter that there are a million other
lonely people with the same name,
because someone wrote that song for you,
only you, and you know who that someone is,
or else you don’t, but you will someday.
this is for you, because you’re there
and i’m not.
sleep warmly and dream poems
and know that you are loved.
this is for you
this is for you, because you’re there
looking at the moon and seeing
love songs written upon it.
you’re trying to find the one that has
your name in the title, and it doesn’t
matter that there are a million other
lonely people with the same name,
because someone wrote that song for you,
only you, and you know who that someone is,
or else you don’t, but you will someday.
this is for you, because you’re there
and i’m not.
sleep warmly and dream poems
and know that you are loved.
"Destination is not far away"
[translated title of song,
from "Pogum Padhai Dhooram Illai (tamil film number)] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtFE1eLcNUU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
youthful airs in self-prison
breaks out much late
noisy ramblings, the many new rush
of drowsy sensations
of its now let loose hungry boundaries
the vagabond winds
as they turn themselves into
eventually gather
after steepy leeward downsizings
its suffocating pitfalls
amongst degrading valleys
and attitudinal mountains
as a point of consolidation
realize it all the hardway
heads rightaway
along its unidirectional pathway
of whatever undulating terrains
with deep-trenches
of pains and darkness
though stepping successive
over light plains and peaking mounds
of silence and consciousness
until unto
the unreturing destination
of its own calling
its soul containment
[translated title of song,
from "Pogum Padhai Dhooram Illai (tamil film number)] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtFE1eLcNUU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
youthful airs in self-prison
breaks out much late
noisy ramblings, the many new rush
of drowsy sensations
of its now let loose hungry boundaries
the vagabond winds
as they turn themselves into
eventually gather
after steepy leeward downsizings
its suffocating pitfalls
amongst degrading valleys
and attitudinal mountains
as a point of consolidation
realize it all the hardway
heads rightaway
along its unidirectional pathway
of whatever undulating terrains
with deep-trenches
of pains and darkness
though stepping successive
over light plains and peaking mounds
of silence and consciousness
until unto
the unreturing destination
of its own calling
its soul containment
Anonymous
I hope you come back, Crim 
Thanks to those who've entered so far, looks good!
I won't read until the comp ends to keep it fair.
Poems that have time to brew can't be compared to freshly ground
Thanks to those who've entered so far, looks good!
I won't read until the comp ends to keep it fair.
Poems that have time to brew can't be compared to freshly ground
Anonymous
awesome, thank's for going again Crim
Turn off your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2OuayNm5w
I turn the page next to me I realize how much this used to mean. I see the words close your eyes. I do so and it awakens a whole new place I can be free. I turn my mind off waiting for it hoping, crossing, even god saying. Maybe we both could be you and me both hoping for this to be are new reality. So turn off that mind and keep your eyes close an maybe you get a new look on what life, hope, reality, love, cope, you just maybe get that look. The look I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2OuayNm5w
I turn the page next to me I realize how much this used to mean. I see the words close your eyes. I do so and it awakens a whole new place I can be free. I turn my mind off waiting for it hoping, crossing, even god saying. Maybe we both could be you and me both hoping for this to be are new reality. So turn off that mind and keep your eyes close an maybe you get a new look on what life, hope, reality, love, cope, you just maybe get that look. The look I did.
the days I fell into your eyes
[Translated title from tamil film number," Un Vizhigazhil"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBX6_5b4_I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
once i said someone
a fool that believes
is better
than anything in doubts
and then
it was myself
swimming inside your sunshine eyes
from that sped light-fraction you shed
that still
was
incomprehensible
might be
one in a zillionth probability of turned events
then
your desperate eyes grazed
allover the purampokku minds
got fixed at my stunned ones
what you felt in them i knew
the curious chaotic muddusts
bonded
awaited fallow hearts
raring to be shaped
in unfashioned
and forgotten
virtues
plotting realestate species
overlooked
our moulded mud-home
ironed suns smiling within
our
infractionable
particulates
[Translated title from tamil film number," Un Vizhigazhil"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBX6_5b4_I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
once i said someone
a fool that believes
is better
than anything in doubts
and then
it was myself
swimming inside your sunshine eyes
from that sped light-fraction you shed
that still
was
incomprehensible
might be
one in a zillionth probability of turned events
then
your desperate eyes grazed
allover the purampokku minds
got fixed at my stunned ones
what you felt in them i knew
the curious chaotic muddusts
bonded
awaited fallow hearts
raring to be shaped
in unfashioned
and forgotten
virtues
plotting realestate species
overlooked
our moulded mud-home
ironed suns smiling within
our
infractionable
particulates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsy7TQN78C4
"Fuck It"
Creeping behind my back
with a whore across town
thought I wouldn't smell
the perfume on your shirt?
the truth is in my tears
I loved you but I won't
take you back under my wings
i'll leave you to bake
in your lies and shame
thought I wouldn't catch on
I'm not the fool you expected
I hold all the cards and you're busted
"Fuck It"
Creeping behind my back
with a whore across town
thought I wouldn't smell
the perfume on your shirt?
the truth is in my tears
I loved you but I won't
take you back under my wings
i'll leave you to bake
in your lies and shame
thought I wouldn't catch on
I'm not the fool you expected
I hold all the cards and you're busted
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song
Squeeze My Lemons Till The Juice Runs Down My Leg
I'm heading home I have a date
Chills play my spine I pass my gate
Time to eat hope I'm not late
I rush myself up spiral stairs
I'm hurrying cause I like mine rare
It's dinner time I'm feeling fine
I lick my chops and grab my wine
I sing and dance across the room
To one of Zeppelins slinky tunes
(squeeze my lemons till the juice runs down my leg, squeeze it so hard till I fall right out of bed)
Alas with ringing of the bell
Wafts cross the room OH delightful smell
I sit to eat Has it gone too far
You know I like my meat Tartar
I squeeze some lemon on his leg
And lick my lips as i am fed
I slurp His blood so delightfully red
My secrets out I love the dead
Daintily I wipe my chin
Daintily And then I grin
Squeeze My Lemons Till The Juice Runs Down My Leg
I'm heading home I have a date
Chills play my spine I pass my gate
Time to eat hope I'm not late
I rush myself up spiral stairs
I'm hurrying cause I like mine rare
It's dinner time I'm feeling fine
I lick my chops and grab my wine
I sing and dance across the room
To one of Zeppelins slinky tunes
(squeeze my lemons till the juice runs down my leg, squeeze it so hard till I fall right out of bed)
Alas with ringing of the bell
Wafts cross the room OH delightful smell
I sit to eat Has it gone too far
You know I like my meat Tartar
I squeeze some lemon on his leg
And lick my lips as i am fed
I slurp His blood so delightfully red
My secrets out I love the dead
Daintily I wipe my chin
Daintily And then I grin
Calabrese - "Lords of the Wasteland"
"Badlands"
I got eyes in the grunge, soot-flecked
grimace on a hardline stare at the horizon.
Bet your ass these shadows don't quiver in no
gloaming. That dust you stormin' up, every crumb mine.
Now I gotta go and do somethin' 'bout it.
We make war here, boy, got men in the sands that
wasn't no snake or dust devil's doin'. Call 'em
lords of the wasteland. Got guns'll put you out
there with 'em. Got this here nailbeater.
You ever watch a man die in the sun?
"Badlands"
I got eyes in the grunge, soot-flecked
grimace on a hardline stare at the horizon.
Bet your ass these shadows don't quiver in no
gloaming. That dust you stormin' up, every crumb mine.
Now I gotta go and do somethin' 'bout it.
We make war here, boy, got men in the sands that
wasn't no snake or dust devil's doin'. Call 'em
lords of the wasteland. Got guns'll put you out
there with 'em. Got this here nailbeater.
You ever watch a man die in the sun?
