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DevilsChild
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Poetry Contest

Write a song
Just wanted to make a lyrical competition ^^ i love music and would like to see the songs in everyone's hearts

Just write a song, can be old or new.

Good luck

hornyatmorn
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This is one of my Greek songs and the verse translates roughly like it follows.
On the recording I play the guitar and a friend plays the bouzouki and sings it as I was a bit more drunk than him to sing it myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwxbUl2V5ng

WHAT I HAVE SUFFERED FOR LOVE  

Everything seems deserted to me, and the west wind blows,
Layabouts drink coffee under the tents,
Everything seems deserted to me, and the west wind blows.

Everything seems deserted to me, inside and outside me,
The summers have passed and how shall I endure it?
Everything seems deserted to me, inside and outside me.

I fought with them all I could, impassioned in their blue,
In their sweet expectations and in their postponements,
I fought with them all I could, impassioned in their blue.

And sometimes I fell in love from the depths of my heart,
And what I've suffered for love I have not suffered in any other way,
And what I've suffered for love I have not suffered in any other way.



Magnetron
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hornyatmorn said:
On the recording I play the guitar and a friend plays the bouzouki and sings it as I was a bit more drunk than him to sing it myself.


Lol

ChemicalRose
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***This is a song I published on DU but since it was dark I categorized it as a poem in the dark section. ***


She's just a forgotten girl, right?
The one nobody notices sobbing at night...

Nobody notices what's under her scars,
Or when they use their words as shards...

She's the one who hides in fear,
With music blaring in both her ears.
Trying not to reach for her blade,
Until  her other scars fade.
She has no reason to smile,
Because she chooses to live in denial.
She's convinced herself that she needs to die,
But she doesn't know it's all a lie..
You know there's a good side to her..
But she lost herself and left herself insecure..
She told us to pull the noose tighter..
She told us to lift a little higher...
But we wouldn't do it because we loved her so.
But she kept yelling that she wanted to go..
She would say that she was the one to blame.
We realized that she was filling her head with shame...
We tried to save her, we swear..
But she would only scream that it wasn't fair..
She says she lied to endure..
And that her own heartbeat haunts her...
We would always try to make her smile,
But she would only scream for awhile...
I remember that little girl.
Who would always have her hair curled..
But now she's wearing only black..
And leaves a trail of sadness in her track..
She tries to hide it but we know she does cry,
And we know that she'll try to say goodbye..

She's just a forgotten girl, right?
The one nobody notices sobbing at night...

And I know that you can't truly see...
But "that one girl" is actually me........




fred_r_kane
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I’ve been thumbing down that road that has been paved with good intentions.
The journey’s been a trip, and the destination-  well,
let’s say sometimes I pray I never get to where I’m going.
You can’t relate if you still got a soul to sell.
So,

I’ll see you.
You know me:
Haul my cross with a rictus grin, yeah,
I’ll see you.
You know me:
another saint who can’t stop sinnin’.
I’ll see you.
You know me:
check my shit, and still step in it.
But, I would gladly change my ways
if God would say I got another minute.

So go ahead and set me up that double.
I wanna kill anything that moves.  Instead, I’ll just kill time.
I’m feeling hard, but soft enough to fall in love     with trouble,
and call a bad deal more than just a friend of mine.

I’ll see you.
You know me:
Man of a thousand poker faces.
I’ll see you.
You know me:
Always holding eights and aces.
I’ll see you.
You know me:
Check my shit and then step in it.
But, I would gladly change my ways
if I could only play another minute.

Well,
Gideon had placed his book to ride my bedside table.
What a way to strike a gaslight conversation
with my Pall Mall ghosts who are merely smoke and mirror childhood fables:
the booze baptized wretched speaking their salvation.

I’ll see you.
You know me.
Drop the die- see these snake eyes, yeah
I’ll see you.
You know me:
got the best luck you ain't buyin'.
I’ll see you.
You know me:
Check my shit and still step in it.
But, I would gladly change my ways
if I could roll away another minute.

If I could throw away another minute.

fred_r_kane
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Star struck:

I’m really pleased to meet you.  You ask, who the fuck am I
to dare, and go insinuate myself into your life.
I show my hand in greeting, and you turn away.
Was it something that I did, or was it something I might say?

You walk high above the sidewalk and your feet don’t touch the ground.
So they pay you damn good money  for your pictures and your sounds.
Why in the hell do you feel that I should be ignored;
that you should look right through me like my presence makes you bored?

There’s a divide,
yeah, there’s a divide.

Star:

Look, money changes everything. You want to be my friend?
If I were just like you, would your hand be extended?
You come from fuckin’ nowhere, act like we got a past.
It could be we bumped some shoulder, but that moment went by fast.

I do my one trick pony, and for that you’d gladly pay.
It’s called value for value, friend, now go the fuck away.
If you should climb this mountain, see me walking from the peak
as my career begins descending, maybe then we’ll speak.

A divide?
Yeah, that’s the divide.

fred_r_kane
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Hallowed land, the cold stone shadows
seem longer than the fingernails
on a witch trial death conviction.                    
In moonlight, night shade veils  

the shadow land.  Midnight whispers
from a worm kissed rictus smile;
the melody, a calm and soothing
lullaby to a motherless child.

Hollow land, defiled in darkness:
open wound in the ground.
Spirits laugh from a mind, relinquished,
but an orphan is calmed
     by the whispering sound.

poet Anonymous

Dick and Jane

(For slow, swaying saxophone)


Look. Look. Here comes Jane
asking for a light.
Most folks think she's plain
but Dick thinks she's quite a sight.
He looks looks looks as she leans.
When she says, "Jump!"
Dick knows what she means.
He reads her like a book
and says, "She's aaaalll riiiight."

Look at Dick and Jane.  
They're in love.
See that Dick and Jane  
Still in love.
She holds his head in her hands and asks,
"What you thinkin' of?"

Now see Dick
don't mind the name.
He has his pick
of any dame.
When he says "Run",
Jane runs with him.
She knows his fire  
will never dim.
They're two fun fun fun lovers
Play play playin their game.

Look at Dick and Jane.  
They're in love.
See that Dick and Jane  
Still in love.
He lays his hand in her lap and asks
"What you thinkin' of?"

Look at Dick and Jane
See see see
You know they're simple kids
Just like you and me.
She knows how to ask
and he knows how to please.
They know how to laugh
and love as they tease.
"Here's lookin at you, kid.  
What else can you teach me?"

There goes Dick and Jane .
They're in love.
See that Dick and Jane,
still in love.
Watch the two as they play  
and tell me,
What YOU thinkin' of?

poet Anonymous



Sea of Tears


Oh child, child, child,  
Have you lost all respect for me?  
Oh child, child child,  
My heart swells, swift and dangerously.  
I spread my wonders all about you:  
Black pearls, spiked stars and pastel angel wings.  
Yet you gather up the man-o-war which stings.  
 
Oh child, child, child,  
I bring you salt from depths unknown.  
Oh child, child, child,  
Do you not taste the tears I’ve thrown?  
You choose the fiddler crab as playmate.  
White lobster waits beneath hard-foaming waves,  
With anemones of myst’ries stored in caves.  
 
Don’t you feel the fury of my thrusts  
Against the cliffs  
Where the barnacles of apathy yet cling?  
Listen to the pounding rush of lust    
Within the swift  
Swirl of adoration. At your feet I sing,  
Cry as I sing...  
 
 
Oh child, child, child,  
I gave the kiss of life to you.    
Ohhh child, child, child!  
You need me just as I need you.  
Tend to my clenching and releasing  
As with these wet breaths I am teaching true:  
If I dry up now, the whole world shall die too.

DevilsChild
Tyrant of Words
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A lot of great songs so far 😁 loved all the reads

Keep them coming

Jonny212
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Forum Posts: 72

The way to victory

  This love I have goes no where.

Hidden deeply within my soul

Covered by anger to hide my pain.

Losing you killed me but I'm to blame.

Struggling to keep my mind sane.

Closer and closer I am to insanity.

So different now without you.
I'm falling into an abyss of lost love.
I wish you could stay with me longer oh yea.
Just see that I could be the one.
Now you're gone. It's not the same no more.

More pain and suffering.
I'll overcome my loss of you.
But I'll always have love for you.
Light kills the darkness inside.
Love kills the darkness inside.


Let love tower the darkness
Loathing dies with the past.
It made you, but it didn't last.
Who you are now?


  This love I have goes no where.

Hidden deeply within my soul.

Covered by anger to hide my pain.

Losing you killed me but I'm to blame.

Struggling to keep my mind sane.

Closer and closer I am to insanity.

So different now without you.
I'm falling into an abyss of lost love.
I wish you could stay with me longer oh yea.
Just see that I could be the one.
Now you're gone. It's not the same no more.

More pain and suffering.
I'll overcome my loss of you.
But I'll always have love for you.
Light kills the darkness inside.
Love kills the darkness inside.


Let love tower the darkness
Loathing dies with the past.
It made you, but it didn't last.
Who you are now?
Who the hell are you now?


I'm a lone wolf lost from the pack.

Long distance away.

Looking for love.

I found the light in her.

I took it away.

Adrift in the depths of my love.



I didn't want anymore.


More pain and suffering.  
I'll overcome my loss of you.
But I'll always have love for you.
Light kills the darkness inside.
Love kills the darkness inside.

Inside my mind.
Inside my soul.
Even if I have to live with pain.
That comes from losing you girl.
Knowing you changed my world.
For better or worse is only for the future to tell.

Light kills the darkness inside.
Love kills the darkness inside.

poet Anonymous

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LobodeSanPedro
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she blew out the city of lights

http://s9.favim.com/mini/130721/boy-couple-desert-girl-hot-motorbike-smoking-Favim.com-791861.jpg

borne in the deconstruction of catacombs
filled with a thousand empty promises and languid kisses
 
bellows stoke caramel and nutmeg embers
pressed between her chapped fingers
her skin is ignited with the same insanity
unwrapped and drawn on by my parched lips
until I gnaw on her marrow
 
she tells me don't start crying for her
and I tell her that's easy
 
I never stop
 
she leaves on her chariot
and I'll take mine
she takes the laughter
I've stolen over time
I lie to the devil's reflection
and say that's just fine
 
I was breathing through her eyes
and seeing through her skin
standing in the stone garden once again
 
she warns me that angels can't love beasts
 
playing in the silhouette of His crucifixion
I take her
inviting the wrath of two millennia of sacrifice
she submits damning us both
 
she tells me don't start crying for her
and I tell her that's easy
 
I never stop
 
she leaves on her chariot
and I'll take mine
she takes the laughter
I've stolen over time
I lie to the devil's reflection
and say that's just fine
 
we move further into the shadows
further among the dead
death kissed in darkness
her beast once more fed
 
she tells me don't start crying for her
and I tell her that's easy
 
I never stop
 
she leaves on her chariot
and I'll take mine
she takes the laughter
I've stolen over time
I lie to the devil's reflection
and say that's just fine
 
Inspired by Riders on the Storm (Jim Morrison)

Jonny212
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Best believe I am buried in silence


    The feelings in my heart,
Tearing me apart.
I want to chase my dreams,
But I am stuck in a box,
Shouting,
Crying,
Yearning,
For these dreams to come to life,

Best believe I need to lead myself into the promise land,
Because I need to see the limits I am willing to push,
All the shadows telling me that I can't,
Keeping me locked in this box  scared to share myself.
Forcing me to bleed alone buried in silence.

  My soul is screaming to be heard,
Locked in,
I wish I was flying with the birds.
In my box,
Razor blades don't touch my face,
They hit the substance,
Chopping into particles of my life.
I am a mess,
But all I want is to do my  best.
God save me,  
From killing myself.
Bullets graze me,
Why won't I save me,
Addicted to my affliction.

Best believe I need to lead myself into the promise land,
Because I need to see the limits I am willing to push,
All the shadows telling me that I can't,
Keeping me locked in this box  scared to share myself.
Forcing me to bleed alone buried in silence.

Keeping me locked in this box with silence,
Telling me my best is not enough,
Killing me,
Credit cards crush up the rest of my existence,
I am yearning for the world to feel my soul,
And all this Yearning,
Compelling me to my pain.
All this crying,
Fueling my drive to push.
All this shouting,
Calling you to my pain
All this pain,
Will be the reason I try my best.

Best believe I need to lead myself into the promise land,
Because I need to see the limits I am willing to push,
All the shadows telling me that I can't,
Keeping me locked in this box  scared to share myself.
Forcing me to bleed alone buried in silence.

DancingAlone
Calum Oliver
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"Hurricanes and Airplanes"


There's a storm here and it won't calm down.
Thunder and rain and I just want out.
There's a storm here and I'm trapped inside.
Rescue me before I lose my mind.
I wanna be in a plane in the sky.
I don't care where we go, no I just wanna fly.
Take me away, take me far from here.
Fly me to anywhere.
Please.
Take me back with you when you go.
Take me anywhere, I don't need to know.
Give me wings to let me free.
The rains so thick that I can't see.
Oh.
I wanna be in a plane in the sky.
I don't care where its going,
I just want to fly.
I'm trapped in the eye, but I can't see
Take me away from here, please.
There's a storm here and it won't calm down.
Thunder and rain and I can't get out.
There's a storm here and I'm inside.
A hurricane and I'm trapped in the eye.
Take me away.
Take me far from here.
Tale me out,
It don't matter where.
Oh.
My wings are broken, I'm not okay.
If I had a voice I wouldn't what to say,
Anyway.
I screaming for help, but nobody can hear.
Maybe that's cause there is nobody near.
If I had a change to escape I would.
Oh how I wish that I could.
There's a storm here and its driving me insane.
I want to be in the sky in a plane.
I'm here in the storm, trapped inside.
Maybe I already lost my mind.
If I survive, I'll barely be a shell.
If I don't, we'll meet again in hell.
I want to fly.
High in the sky.
Never come down.
Till I'm in the ground.
I want to live like the birds, so free.
Won't somebody rescue me?
There's a storm here.
There's a storm here.
I don't know where here is, its not quite clear.
Thunder and rain
It used to make me scared.
It doesn't anymore.
Because I don't care.
There's a storm here, I'm still in the eye.
I dont care anymore, I am dead inside.

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