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Poetry competition CLOSED 20th July 2016 3:25pm
WINNER
PorousPen
PorousPen
RUNNERS-UP:
chump
and WillowsWhimsies
Kill cliche!
Poetry Contest Description
Write a poem using cliche verses!
This is supposed to be a funny competition!
Write a poem using all the cliche verses, metaphors, symbolism, that you can think of...!
This is a chance to take out all that you always avoid to write in a poem.
After this, I´m sure you will never need to think again of cliches!
An example for a love poem could be:
"Your eyes are blue like the sea
Your smile makes me continue living
Your words are the salt in my dreams…." bla bla bla! lol!
It can be whatever category you like! If somebody could help me to add the "extreme content" in the comp, it would be perfect!
Make me laugh!
The best, worst poem wins!
1. One week / extended for another week
2. One entry
3. only new poems, for this comp. (I'll try to check all the entries if they have been published in DUP before. I always ask for new poems, because the purpose of a comp for me, is to make you enjoy it. Unfortunately in my last comp there was a poem that wasn't new and I didn't find it out at the beginning so I left it pass).
4. Keep it a poem
Enjoy!!
Write a poem using all the cliche verses, metaphors, symbolism, that you can think of...!
This is a chance to take out all that you always avoid to write in a poem.
After this, I´m sure you will never need to think again of cliches!
An example for a love poem could be:
"Your eyes are blue like the sea
Your smile makes me continue living
Your words are the salt in my dreams…." bla bla bla! lol!
It can be whatever category you like! If somebody could help me to add the "extreme content" in the comp, it would be perfect!
Make me laugh!
The best, worst poem wins!
1. One week / extended for another week
2. One entry
3. only new poems, for this comp. (I'll try to check all the entries if they have been published in DUP before. I always ask for new poems, because the purpose of a comp for me, is to make you enjoy it. Unfortunately in my last comp there was a poem that wasn't new and I didn't find it out at the beginning so I left it pass).
4. Keep it a poem
Enjoy!!
A Blitz Poem
It's what it is
It's a dog's life
Life goes on
Life is a bitch
Bitch about me
Bitch is me
Me and my shadow
Me and you make two
Two for tea
Two little boys
Boys toys
Boys and girls
Girls rule
Girl's night out
Out and about
Out of luck
Luck of the Irish
Luck is a lady
Lady and the Tramp
Lady in waiting
Waiting about
Waiting? Why are we?
We are the champions
We all need love
Love in a cold climate
Love makes the world go round
Round the houses
Round not square
Square eyes
Square peg in a round hole
Hole in the ground
Hole in one
One, two, three O'Leary
One day at a time
Time in a bottle
Time heals all
All is most of fall
All cannot be pleased
Pleased from thank yous
Pleased to meet you
You are half of me
You are everything
Everything coming up roses
Everything comes to an end
End is new beginnings
End sentences with full stops
Stops running away
Stops then gone
Gone.....
Away.....
It's what it is
It's a dog's life
Life goes on
Life is a bitch
Bitch about me
Bitch is me
Me and my shadow
Me and you make two
Two for tea
Two little boys
Boys toys
Boys and girls
Girls rule
Girl's night out
Out and about
Out of luck
Luck of the Irish
Luck is a lady
Lady and the Tramp
Lady in waiting
Waiting about
Waiting? Why are we?
We are the champions
We all need love
Love in a cold climate
Love makes the world go round
Round the houses
Round not square
Square eyes
Square peg in a round hole
Hole in the ground
Hole in one
One, two, three O'Leary
One day at a time
Time in a bottle
Time heals all
All is most of fall
All cannot be pleased
Pleased from thank yous
Pleased to meet you
You are half of me
You are everything
Everything coming up roses
Everything comes to an end
End is new beginnings
End sentences with full stops
Stops running away
Stops then gone
Gone.....
Away.....
CLICK
Hello, my dear friend Art
We finally get to meet!
I like your facial hair
And of the way you speak.
I haven't much to say
I'm shaped just like a boy,
I'm not reliable
I eat just like a bird.
So we would get along,
Let's take this one more step
And go out for a drink,
I'll pick the time and place.
Just something casual,
Unless you'd rather split
For dinner on the town
At some enchanted club.
For me I would enjoy
A randy little dive
Where I could show you off
While we would slow-dance tight
And make the others guess;
Oh wouldn't that be fun?
We two both on the hunt
The talent we'd check out.
The crotches that salute,
We'd go our separate ways
With us upon their arms,
And one night on our minds!
Hello, my dear friend Art
We finally get to meet!
I like your facial hair
And of the way you speak.
I haven't much to say
I'm shaped just like a boy,
I'm not reliable
I eat just like a bird.
So we would get along,
Let's take this one more step
And go out for a drink,
I'll pick the time and place.
Just something casual,
Unless you'd rather split
For dinner on the town
At some enchanted club.
For me I would enjoy
A randy little dive
Where I could show you off
While we would slow-dance tight
And make the others guess;
Oh wouldn't that be fun?
We two both on the hunt
The talent we'd check out.
The crotches that salute,
We'd go our separate ways
With us upon their arms,
And one night on our minds!
Aim for the moon and land upon the stars,
because we are who we are,
and the destination is never that far,
if you fall, get right back up,
strut your stuff,
like you don't give a fuck,
dance like nobody's watching,
So keep calm and carry on,
because everything happens for a reason,
but YOLO bitch,
you always miss shots you don't take,
so fake it till you make it,
fuck this shit i quit.
because we are who we are,
and the destination is never that far,
if you fall, get right back up,
strut your stuff,
like you don't give a fuck,
dance like nobody's watching,
So keep calm and carry on,
because everything happens for a reason,
but YOLO bitch,
you always miss shots you don't take,
so fake it till you make it,
fuck this shit i quit.
Thank you all for these first brilliant entries!
UnderYourSpell - I love it! You forgot to add your nick name there, lol! After laughing I got emotional at the end. Very clever
Jadey - That was so funny! I'll leave you to pick the time and place for sure! lol! Really enjoyed it!
Brad - Really cliche verses, haha! Love it! "because everything happens for a reason", this is the most cliche and manipulating phrase ever! Well done! :)
UnderYourSpell - I love it! You forgot to add your nick name there, lol! After laughing I got emotional at the end. Very clever
Jadey - That was so funny! I'll leave you to pick the time and place for sure! lol! Really enjoyed it!
Brad - Really cliche verses, haha! Love it! "because everything happens for a reason", this is the most cliche and manipulating phrase ever! Well done! :)
It's Now or Never
Stop and smell the roses
Call them any old name
If something stinks or it don't
It will still smell the same
Look on the bright side of things
Yet you are damned if you do or don't
Because attitude determines altitude
And your ship will sink if you won't
Ball is in your court
You can bank on it
You can call the shots
Yet it'll still turn to shit
For there is no "i" in team
And yet I and not me
Need to keep an eye on the ball
Or end up blind as a bat, unable to see
I'm covering my ass
While you're cracking the whip
Cry me a river
I'm cut to the quick
I'm yanking your chain
I'm holding fast as I
Let the cat out of the bag
And let sleeping dogs lie
The glass that is half empty
Is ALWAYS at the same time half full
So what advice is that really
It's all so much bull
Separate the men from the boys
By sorting their snakes and their snails
And how cruel is that
To take puppy dog tails
My dog is MY best friend
Never mind man's
He has only paws
Yet he gives me a hand
Truly the cat's meow
He's my friend to the end
Fetching the short end of the stick
Again and again
Looking through rose covered glasses
I hit a brick wall
For they don't help me see
Anything clearly at all
Keep your eyes open
Keep your chin up
Carry a rabbit's foot
Yeah, like that rabbit had luck
Waiting with baited breath
Say what you will
For words can't hurt
Yet feet can kill
Stop and smell the roses
Call them any old name
If something stinks or it don't
It will still smell the same
Look on the bright side of things
Yet you are damned if you do or don't
Because attitude determines altitude
And your ship will sink if you won't
Ball is in your court
You can bank on it
You can call the shots
Yet it'll still turn to shit
For there is no "i" in team
And yet I and not me
Need to keep an eye on the ball
Or end up blind as a bat, unable to see
I'm covering my ass
While you're cracking the whip
Cry me a river
I'm cut to the quick
I'm yanking your chain
I'm holding fast as I
Let the cat out of the bag
And let sleeping dogs lie
The glass that is half empty
Is ALWAYS at the same time half full
So what advice is that really
It's all so much bull
Separate the men from the boys
By sorting their snakes and their snails
And how cruel is that
To take puppy dog tails
My dog is MY best friend
Never mind man's
He has only paws
Yet he gives me a hand
Truly the cat's meow
He's my friend to the end
Fetching the short end of the stick
Again and again
Looking through rose covered glasses
I hit a brick wall
For they don't help me see
Anything clearly at all
Keep your eyes open
Keep your chin up
Carry a rabbit's foot
Yeah, like that rabbit had luck
Waiting with baited breath
Say what you will
For words can't hurt
Yet feet can kill
Anonymous
Moon Train
I wanted to kill two birds with one stone
Make some statement that confirmed
Her conformity and leave
But it was hard not to feel I was
Beating a dead horse
The paint still wet on my face
And the sun hot as hell
All the world is a stage but it felt like
The second act of a one act play
And all I could say was
See you later
I can lead a horse to water but
I can't make it a camel
I dont want to count my chickens before they hatch
Or put all my eggs in one basket
But it's time I was going
Anywhere but there
I wanted to kill two birds with one stone
Make some statement that confirmed
Her conformity and leave
But it was hard not to feel I was
Beating a dead horse
The paint still wet on my face
And the sun hot as hell
All the world is a stage but it felt like
The second act of a one act play
And all I could say was
See you later
I can lead a horse to water but
I can't make it a camel
I dont want to count my chickens before they hatch
Or put all my eggs in one basket
But it's time I was going
Anywhere but there
Anonymous
It was a dark and stormy night
The moon was full on a stormy night
and the tigers eye burned brighter than the sun
the desert was dryer than the Gobi
the turtle shrunk into its shell
and the heaven became hell
the ice burned like lava
i watched as the dove flew to the light
and wondered why
why
oh to be a dancer in the limes
I suck lemons for a living
the corpse was alive an kicking
and Merlin died for Arthur
and the sword was never pulled from the stone
peter never flew home
but the world was soft like bubble gum
and it popped in the winter sun
The moon was full on a stormy night
and the tigers eye burned brighter than the sun
the desert was dryer than the Gobi
the turtle shrunk into its shell
and the heaven became hell
the ice burned like lava
i watched as the dove flew to the light
and wondered why
why
oh to be a dancer in the limes
I suck lemons for a living
the corpse was alive an kicking
and Merlin died for Arthur
and the sword was never pulled from the stone
peter never flew home
but the world was soft like bubble gum
and it popped in the winter sun
🐝🐦THE BIRDS & the bees© 🐦🐝
There's a small chance that I can make you want me.
A small window of opportunity that I might actually be able to make you happy.
Don't you wanna be happy?
Do you wanna be that couple that actually makes it?
Let's be the benefit of the doubt.
Through all the bullshit caused by multiple tragic past relationships can you be the one that I actually deem worthy of all the pain that human can inflict without attempt?Because let's face it you're going to fuck up eventually and I'll no longer be able to place you up on that pedestal of perfection.
Are you ready to be that rose sprouting from the concrete of trial and error?
Although our love came unannounced in the middle of the night.
In sleazy back door alleyways, bathroom stalls and cheap hotel rooms.
There we were jilting like heathen on squeaky mattress.
And let the liquor tell it I was fucked up but you had courage enough to love me in spite of.
Although our love came when we’d given up on waiting and asking for it to come. Somehow we managed to find beauty in our struggle.
And although we met on a level of shared anguish I will write sonnets to the salty sudorific of your skin and they will speak angry volumes insisting that dick be installed HERE evaporate quietly.
We will bandage and press promises between us like daisies in a novel forming our own dictionary because word is bond.
There's a small chance that I can make you want me.
A small window of opportunity that I might actually be able to make you happy.
Don't you wanna be happy?
Do you wanna be that couple that actually makes it?
Let's be the benefit of the doubt.
Through all the bullshit caused by multiple tragic past relationships can you be the one that I actually deem worthy of all the pain that human can inflict without attempt?Because let's face it you're going to fuck up eventually and I'll no longer be able to place you up on that pedestal of perfection.
Are you ready to be that rose sprouting from the concrete of trial and error?
Although our love came unannounced in the middle of the night.
In sleazy back door alleyways, bathroom stalls and cheap hotel rooms.
There we were jilting like heathen on squeaky mattress.
And let the liquor tell it I was fucked up but you had courage enough to love me in spite of.
Although our love came when we’d given up on waiting and asking for it to come. Somehow we managed to find beauty in our struggle.
And although we met on a level of shared anguish I will write sonnets to the salty sudorific of your skin and they will speak angry volumes insisting that dick be installed HERE evaporate quietly.
We will bandage and press promises between us like daisies in a novel forming our own dictionary because word is bond.
Tomorrow is filled
with promise and hope
a kettle of gold
at the end of your rope
but tomorrow’s a taunt
oh, what a tease!
to hold out its hands
and dangle the keys
but don’t you believe it!
not for one minute!
hope is a treasure
and a promise is grand
but no one can hold them
in the palm of their hand
so the thing to remember
the lesson to learn
if there’s something in life
for which you yearn
do it right now
don’t wait for its pleasures
tomorrow can’t promise
itself as a treasure.
with promise and hope
a kettle of gold
at the end of your rope
but tomorrow’s a taunt
oh, what a tease!
to hold out its hands
and dangle the keys
but don’t you believe it!
not for one minute!
hope is a treasure
and a promise is grand
but no one can hold them
in the palm of their hand
so the thing to remember
the lesson to learn
if there’s something in life
for which you yearn
do it right now
don’t wait for its pleasures
tomorrow can’t promise
itself as a treasure.
World peace
I wish for a world
that celebrates a spirit of Ubuntu
where we don't judge the color of a person's skin
but by the color of their heart
I have a dream
that we shall march ahead
we can not turn back
ask not what your country can do for you
but what you can do for your country
I wish for world
filled with justice and love
perhaps a few songs from Modonna
and some food from Masterchef
shared with a coke around a campfire
singing koombaya my lord
accompanied by the mormins at our gate
with precious chihuahuas being shot
all this narrated by Morgan Freeman
with an American flag in the background
with their weird anthem to match
lastly a bold eagle on Miss Universe's shoulders
with the Queen doing something boring
along with Macgyver setting up the fireworks
I wish for a world
that celebrates a spirit of Ubuntu
where we don't judge the color of a person's skin
but by the color of their heart
I have a dream
that we shall march ahead
we can not turn back
ask not what your country can do for you
but what you can do for your country
I wish for world
filled with justice and love
perhaps a few songs from Modonna
and some food from Masterchef
shared with a coke around a campfire
singing koombaya my lord
accompanied by the mormins at our gate
with precious chihuahuas being shot
all this narrated by Morgan Freeman
with an American flag in the background
with their weird anthem to match
lastly a bold eagle on Miss Universe's shoulders
with the Queen doing something boring
along with Macgyver setting up the fireworks
