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Blackhippy60
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Poetry Contest

Describe your self with the four greatest elements, as a form of meditation.
Write a four line poem using first stanza with an noun and the second one with verbs and and the last one with another pronoun, being of important things that make you who you are.
first write the word that describes you and solidifies you to the element.

Faith,

then say it is the element in in your life

is the water in my life.

now just repeat the sentences using a verb for the second stanza and then right one with a noun as the third.
at the end it should look like this

ex.

Faith, is the water in my life.
Knowledge, is the fire in my life.
Structure, is the earth in my life.
Passion is the air in my life.


Believing, is the water in my life
Learning, is the fire in my life
Creating, is the earth in my life
Loving, is the air in my life


hope, is the water in my life
power, is the fire in my life
form, is the earth in my life
love, is the air in my life


each element should have something different that relates to you and solidifies the meaning of the word
.If you want you can repeat the same it at least once to three times a day and you'll find an inner balance with a mediation to it.

The one who post the best one in a combinations of words wins

two rules

be honest... and follow the format.

calamitygin
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Just the words with...is the air in my life..water fire earth?

Pronoun
Verb
Noun?

Im not understanding this...sorry doll..trying...

The only words that change are the first before...is the "" in my life?

Jade-Pandora
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calamitygin said:Just the words with...is the air in my life..water fire earth?

Pronoun
Verb
Noun?

Im not understanding this...sorry doll..trying...

The only words that change are the first before...is the "" in my life?


I'm a little confused too -- it almost seems too easy the way it's explained to us.

Thank you, Host, if you could elaborate a tad more please?

Blackhippy60
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If its easy then whats the problem? I explained the format perfectly...

RSena
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Hope you took from me,
energy that pumped My heart,
how cruel was the last breath,
hopeless again, and you left.

leading me to this bipolar state,
tearing apart each piece of My lungs,
craying before i fall down,
realizing that the free air now had a price.

moments were reminds me of it,
It, still gone, but neverderless, expect.
It still within the air, althoug It cost me now.
air, was my hope, and air let me alone.

linking my self to what it was no mine,
fighting, every single day for a solution,
giving it to you, completly,
completing the agony of my pain.

SENA


Jade-Pandora
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Dear SENA,
Please excuse me, but, respectfully, isn't your poem meant for the bipolar competition?  

RSena
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Pandora,

Perception. Is the excuse concept that allow us. To discriminate ...

It depends on how you see the poem.
Although you are totally correct but this competition did not say anything against poems related with personality disorder.?

Jade-Pandora
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SENA,

I respect your choice of course.  

Jade-Pandora
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Beukez
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Sophie is the stream in my life
Vulcan's tools the desire of my life
My future the tomb of existence
Each breath a reminder of life

LobodeSanPedro
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Four

Children fill the air with laughter and song feeding antediluvian oaks and my dreams
Water is our life source, filled with blue crabs and oysters
My grandmother has tilled the earth, reaping fresh okra and tomatoes
She tells me one day this will be mine to tend, to protect
We gather around the bonfire, casting off our doubts in the flickering embers
Our bodies replenished by a bounty of oysters and crabs crackling within our smiles and stories

My students are the air that restores my faith when all else suffocates me
The bureaucrats are the water which I can't walk across
Though I stroke mightily, I'm in over my head
I make it back to shore, cold safe earth under my feet
Binding me to the clay that birthed me
Resigned I light a fire, a source of light
and combustion for the raw nutmeg and cinnamon I need

Air is laughter and hope in my life
Water is salvation and destruction
Fire is a guide dancing me towards bliss
Earth is the womb to which I must return


OxyMoronicMe
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Its confusing because of the word "pronoun... for the third.stanza.  

Your firs paragraph...Write a four line poem using first stanza with an noun and the second one with verbs and and the last one with another pronoun,

Then in the succeeding explanation it's different.  Pronoun should be Noun.
Well, just a suggestion.

If I understand it correctly...

First stanza = Noun + element in your life
Second stanza = Verb + element in your life
Third stanza = Noun (not Pronoun) + element in your life

???

Oxy.

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(A poem written to describe  myself with the four greatest elements, as a form of meditation. - entree piece in poetry competition titled Element Poetry submitted 01 March 2016 @DUP)

Hope is the fire that kindles my spirit.
Faith is the wind that carries me through hardship.
Love is the water that bathe me with strength.
Humility is the earth that keeps me grounded.

Pursuing my goals is the fire that kindles my spirit.
Trusting Him is the wind that carries me through hardship.
Loving you is the water that bathe me with strength.
Sinning is the earth that keeps me grounded.

Courage is the fire that kindles my spirit.
Aspiration is the wind that carries me through hardship.
Felicity is the water that bathe me with strength.
Regret is the earth that keeps me grounded.

anna_grin
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respectfully, i spit on the earth
and those who would walk on it.

and i hide from the wind,
and the rain,
and the cold

i light fires only to hear my cigarette sizzle

i sink just to feel the water's touch on my skin
reminds me of something

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