Poetry competition CLOSED 20th February 2017 2:34pm
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MadameLavender
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WORSE

OxyMoronicMe
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Poetry Contest

What is worse than being single or brokenhearted on Valentine's Day?
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I was thinking... what is worse than being single or broken hearted on Valentine's Day?

And my thoughts just went to extremes...

Orphans of War

Life for them is black and bleak
With crimson grounds beneath their feet
When horrors aren't nighmares
Grief is before and beyond them
Words of hope means nothing
and won't reach their ears
It's too late for salvation
Too soon for redemption

Despair is the hallow above their heads
Fury is the dept slowly seeping within
Them, that welcomes death over sunlight
Would soon be swept, binded together
In history as a collective noun
Forgotten, insignificant as a singular
Accessories to highlight the heroes and tyrants
And who would remember each individual?

No one but, the Civil Registry
But even that could be caught on fire...


It makes me feel lucky...

Rules

1. Title your poem
2. New or Old write acceptable
3. One entry per poet
4. Make me feel lucky even without a significant other this Valentines
5. Enjoy and Happy Valentine's Day fellow lover of ink here at Dup.

snugglebuck
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WICKED CUPID

As the story goes, Lucifer, who was a Cherub
Was cast out of Heaven for not fulfilling his angelic duties
I've often wondered if he wasn't the only Cherub to meet this fate
Because, from my experience, another cherub; Cupid
Can be one evil little weevil

So Cupid here is my message to you
If you’re going to shoot me on Valentine's Day
Would you please shoot the woman I'm in love with too?


OxyMoronicMe
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Thank you Snugglebuck for your entry...

Hmmm, I agree. Being single or brokenhearted is better than being trapped in a relationship with the wrong person.

MadameLavender
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OxyMoronicMe said:Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I was thinking... what is worse than being single or broken hearted on Valentine's Day?




I Beat You All


What's worse, on
Valentine's Day, than being
single or broken-hearted?  

Turning 50--yes, it's true, and
you're all invited
to my pity party.

Bring your own cake--
I'm eating mine.

OxyMoronicMe
G.L.
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Madame,

Happy Birthday!
If I could, I'd share that cake with you.

Hugz,
Oxy

MadameLavender
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OxyMoronicMe said:Madame,

Happy Birthday!
If I could, I'd share that cake with you.

Hugz,
Oxy


💛💙💜💚❤️

Gahddess_Worship
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"Diana and Cupid" by Pompeo Batoni

Love's Futility

Happy Valentine’s Day!
in cheerful timbre uttered
her reply with delay
Imperceptibly muttered

Godiva dark a tasty tease
once yielded passionate kisses
now merely empty calories
how long forgotten bliss is

Perfume, flowers I’ll still offer
because that’s who I am
carefully worded cards I’ll proffer
showing I still give a damn

FLC8
Thought Provoker
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Dream or nightmare

Hahahahahha

I love him or the idea of him?! Don't really know

Fuck man I am mother fucking confused right now


I miss him, he is like a good dream and the worst nightmare.
Both same time

Hahahhaha me screaming now!!!!!


What the fuck?


Can't stop thinking about this guy !!!!

I only pray for the best.

God free me or bring him to me forever

I think I am confusing God with my prayer

God knows, he is not a fool like me!!

So I have my hopes only in him!

Please give me your opinion poets I am fucked in love with a scammer !!!!!
Written by FLC8
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OxyMoronicMe
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thank you ghaddess and FLC for your wonderful entries.

xsteff1991x
Stephanie Simpson
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Bittersweet

What was once so strong,
Feels so weak,
The arms where I belonged,
Warm and bittersweet.

A heart of gold,
Like stone it sleeps,
Blood so cold,
That tastes bittersweet.

Still we stay,
Feel for what we cannot reach,
See our life in grey,
Pictures in bittersweet.

We talk but talk is cheap,
Try to talk us out of our defeat,
Do we hear the words we speak?
The sound of bittersweet.

The love I so dearly loved,
So perfect and unique,
I gave it all I could,
Broke and bittersweet.

A man I once adored,
Into those eyes I search deep,
I cannot see what I saw before,
Now I see bittersweet.

A bracelet, the charm,
The clasp has been beat,
Snaps around my arm,
Cannot cling to bittersweet.

A life of promise and affection,
Shadows of lies and deceit,
Hopes of restoring our perfection,
But even hope is bittersweet.

composedWITHrazors
Blade Artist
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What is worse?

Self indulgence like this verse

We are all human fuck my malaise
Our genetics and empathy are predisposed
We are a beautiful convoluted maze
Our environment a story yet to be composed

A broken heart represents a feeling
The muscle in the chest pumps erratic
Fragmented moments I am stealing
Left with nothing but static

Valentine to evoke our empathy?
Love is deeper than that I think
Drum those books of conspiracy
Read between those lines of ink

Ahavati
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Wreathing

 
When we were young, every wreath  
Was a holiday decorating our wonder  
Years with wish covered doorways  
Molded by family and special teachers  
 
Whose knowledge transferred  
From a hierarchy of Love through  
Blood or kindred bond. Connected  
By historical roots, these dark-haired  
 
Guides of yesteryear were book-smiths  
Bearing darker eyes and kind smiles.  
Their wisdom paired lessons with each  
Individual ability to scale the mighty  
 
Mountain of penmanship into a syntax of  
Dense meaning until reaching a story book  
Of paragraph. As children, we underestimate
The value of the adventure we're assigned.  
 
Ever forward into adulthood and freedom  
To choose our own lessons, we leave  
Behind legacies of growth for higher  
Institutes of learning across continents  
 
And distant countries abroad, packing  
Only what we want to take with us;  
Needing nothing from the world but the  
Clothes on our back and Air in our lungs.  
 
As we learned the dictates of expression  
Under the direction of new mentors,  
Our lives evolved into a becoming of  
Adult forced to honor regretful choices.  

Our lives become not our own except
Through dreams locked within ourselves,
Huddled around the tiny flame of barely
Burning inspiration guarded by hope.
 
When we were young, every wreath  
Was magic hanging holidays with peace  
And joy, all ye faithful, merry gentlemen,  
And we mustn't forget Peter rabbit too.  
 
As we age they take on different nuances  
Of loss and condolences. It is then we grasp  
For what we've been taught, for meaning  
From the chaos of unwanted circumstance.  
 
All our lives we thought we knew everything,  
Until we grew up to swallow another's grief,  
Understanding nothing of its bloody hands  
Smearing across the eyes of those we love  
 
With blinding pain. It's then we realize what  
We've lost to this world for good, knowing  
All that's left to offer through the empty void  
Is all we've learned wreathed into a poem.  
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Burying your mother is pretty much up there with the worst...
Mine passed away the day before Valentine's Day in 1978. It's difficult even today not to associate it with the holiday.

Leo_Sunset
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Polarity

Hot, Cold
Is something wrong?
Maybe, No.
Happy, Sad
Angry ,Mad
Are you ok?
Maybe ,No.
Life, Death
Insomnia ,Depressed
Do you need help?
Maybe, No.
Hate, Love
Selfishly selfless
You should get some rest...
Maybe, No.
Up,Down
Twitchy Still
Are you bi polar?
Maybe....
No!
Written by Leo_Sunset
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MadameLavender
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Lol--thanks for the win, but there were far better entries than mine-great job everyone

OxyMoronicMe
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thank you everyone for participating. Tough choice between Madame and Ahavati. But I would go with Madame Lavender this time. In the end I chose the one that pull the strings in my heart. there is something really wretched in being alone on your birthday. more than aging, its the cake that did it.

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