Poetry competition CLOSED 7th August 2017 10:51pm
WINNER
PsychicApocalypse (Darker Half)
PsychicApocalypse (Darker Half)
Unrequited love
A Pain Remembered
Until next time
he says as he walks away
looking after him
she smiles brightly
not sure if he will look back
sadness encircles her heart
its healing
doesn't matter anymore
and the band around
her hurts break
her heart pulses
and shifts a little
blocks her throat
and moisten her eyes
her lips quivers
not that he is leaving
but that her feelings
are ashes under
a remembered pain
his goodbye a truth
Only to her.
he says as he walks away
looking after him
she smiles brightly
not sure if he will look back
sadness encircles her heart
its healing
doesn't matter anymore
and the band around
her hurts break
her heart pulses
and shifts a little
blocks her throat
and moisten her eyes
her lips quivers
not that he is leaving
but that her feelings
are ashes under
a remembered pain
his goodbye a truth
Only to her.
Written by Grace
(IDryad)
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Unrequited Dream
we roam the abyss
hand in hand
blood drained hearts
connected by a notion
the mindless brains
couldn't understand
while our faceless heads
trying to express emotions
walking corpses
how the world sees us
shooting sardonic smiles
straight through us
but I'm,
blind to those cynical smiles
and deaf to those scathing words
I immunise myself, and I feel
numb towards the fucking world
except you...
our hands
sewed together
with the
darkness
our feelings
connected
but we are
heartless
our lives
are bound
together by
a sadness
our stories
will tell
the twisted
madness
as I shut the world
around me and walk
into this novelty
because,
you are the escape
from my miserable
reality
Written by dejure
(vick)
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"Unrequited Love"
I've been in love so many times
I've lost each one to passion crimes
With all of my heart, to the core of my soul
I love you and now I feel free to let you know
The barrier of marriage has fallen to the ground
Now friendship's all that's left to seek a way around
The question is so hard to ask
Once more my friendship is a mask
Concealing from you my inner most hope
While friendship is strung up on the end of a rope
Am I betraying your trust by following my heart?
Are my feelings something I should never impart?
If I hide this, is it a lie?
Will my love for you live or die?
Is it better to leave, to run away
Without letting you know my heart wants me to stay?
A lifetime of dreams keep telling me I must go
But I can't walk away without letting you know
So with one breath I'll say goodbye
And with the next I'll start to cry
For when I tell you what my heart feels
Our friendship will suffer for all it reveals
But this is my fate, to never have love returned
I am unworthy of yours, a love I have not earned
JJ
*03/08/2001
"Emptiness Within"
A dream I dreamed about you
About you falling in love with me
We were watching the night sky
Laying on a blanket
On the fifty yard line
Of our high school football field
I kept hoping your heart could fall for me
Like stars to gravity
I wished on one and my wish came true
As you turned to look in my eyes
Our arms reached around each other
Holding on for our lives
We kissed for the first time
And it felt so real
So unbelievably real
My heart was filled with a happiness
I've only dreamed that I could feel
It overwhelmed me so
That I was pulled out of my sleep
And for a moment I could feel
Your hands, your lips still there
Only to feel the emptiness in my arms
Racing straight into my heart
I cried out an echo with my tears,
"God, why is it always a dream?
It's always just a dream"
JJ
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My Soul Drowns In Shoals
Squally musings cruise
Churning whitecapped stormy yearnings
Outcropped, unmarked jetties jut
My hull is listing
Memories hiss horribly
Lagging timeless
Engraved on my mind's marigram
Riptides rend them to sea again...
I wander the Pacific brine
Mortally pierced
By a heart hunting opportunist
Blood catching
I'm stranded
Reddening Cascadia sand
Still dreaming of my harpoonist
Churning whitecapped stormy yearnings
Outcropped, unmarked jetties jut
My hull is listing
Memories hiss horribly
Lagging timeless
Engraved on my mind's marigram
Riptides rend them to sea again...
I wander the Pacific brine
Mortally pierced
By a heart hunting opportunist
Blood catching
I'm stranded
Reddening Cascadia sand
Still dreaming of my harpoonist
Written by AtoMikbomb
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With or Without You
Everything is one day at a time with you.
I hate to apologize for something that I
Cannot control, neither can you. I hate to
See this as a one sided love or when eye
To eye I do not know what to say anymore
Because the feelings are still there, but there
Is nothing more we can do to keep that door
Open to possibilities. Darling, you swear
To me that you see our future together, but
I cannot keep looking forward or far ahead
Anymore because I am afraid of getting cut
And hurt like I used to. My heart gets spread
Out and I am afraid of not getting anything in
Return, so show patience with me. You keep
My life warm like blood and oxygen. I will win
With or without you and you will be deep
Within me like ocean waves. Darling, we are
Floating along, letting life live with every star.
I hate to apologize for something that I
Cannot control, neither can you. I hate to
See this as a one sided love or when eye
To eye I do not know what to say anymore
Because the feelings are still there, but there
Is nothing more we can do to keep that door
Open to possibilities. Darling, you swear
To me that you see our future together, but
I cannot keep looking forward or far ahead
Anymore because I am afraid of getting cut
And hurt like I used to. My heart gets spread
Out and I am afraid of not getting anything in
Return, so show patience with me. You keep
My life warm like blood and oxygen. I will win
With or without you and you will be deep
Within me like ocean waves. Darling, we are
Floating along, letting life live with every star.
Written by eswaller
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Pet
Even from a distance
I felt your resistance
To my sad persistence
My love an insistence
I craved your assistance
I wanted coexistence
Romantic subsistence
Your response inconsistence
Your loves non-existence
I still love you
I see you each day
My thoughts so risqué’
Of fingering foreplay
You in silk lingerie
Like an ice cream sundae
Licking is my forte’
In my mind we role play
Still I feel your dismay
At my attempt at horseplay
You gave a firm no way
Not sure if I can obey
I still lust you
I used to be the teachers pet
I followed school etiquette
Until I saw you as a majorette
It made me sweat
Your pom-pom pirouette
I imagined you wet
And me hard set
Like no one I’d met
You made me fret
Changed my mindset
Though you I will never get
I still adore you
I realise we’ll never dance
It’s clear I’ll get no romance
You won’t give me a second glance
I know because of circumstance
But you’re still mine in my minds eye
Sad; your heart I’ll never occupy
And so I’m eating humble pie
Underneath a cloudy sky
15 years old a sexual creature
And I know that you’re my teacher
But; I still want you
Even from a distance
I felt your resistance
To my sad persistence
My love an insistence
I craved your assistance
I wanted coexistence
Romantic subsistence
Your response inconsistence
Your loves non-existence
I still love you
I see you each day
My thoughts so risqué’
Of fingering foreplay
You in silk lingerie
Like an ice cream sundae
Licking is my forte’
In my mind we role play
Still I feel your dismay
At my attempt at horseplay
You gave a firm no way
Not sure if I can obey
I still lust you
I used to be the teachers pet
I followed school etiquette
Until I saw you as a majorette
It made me sweat
Your pom-pom pirouette
I imagined you wet
And me hard set
Like no one I’d met
You made me fret
Changed my mindset
Though you I will never get
I still adore you
I realise we’ll never dance
It’s clear I’ll get no romance
You won’t give me a second glance
I know because of circumstance
But you’re still mine in my minds eye
Sad; your heart I’ll never occupy
And so I’m eating humble pie
Underneath a cloudy sky
15 years old a sexual creature
And I know that you’re my teacher
But; I still want you
UNEVEN
Resilience escapes the grip of endurance
And the curse of autumn touches the tree of life
One last tap and it shattered the brittle glass
With thundering menace, it fell to the hard ground
Scattered and missing little important parts
Like a hoarder who hates throwing away anything
You picked each piece with your bare calloused hands
Sharp edges cutting the pads of each finger
Hand in mouth, you suck the blood
Tanginess poses no challenge to your unwavering heart
With each puzzle that you pieced together
Struggling to keep connected to one another
And supporting to stop from breaking altogether
The more crack in the surface appears
A kind of damage that no amount of adhesive could ever conceal
It pains me to see how you're doing everything
Even if it hurts so much that tears well from your eyes
I asked myself, “Is it really worth your while?”
The agony and the anger oppressed by obsession and desire?
What am I to do?
When my heart can't hold on to?
Who can save you?
When I'm not willing to?
How can I tell you to let go?
Because I've already done so?
Yes, I did
Do so too.
Author's Note
Dedicated to a shy friend who's facing difficulties in her marriage.
I hope the both of them do what's best for them.
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Written by OxyMoronicMe
(G.L.)
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Anonymous
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Hedonist
Hedonic lips beckon
me to spill henna
blossoms from my mouth
as he kisses away
the pain associated
with my rainy days.
He was humming canticles
that only I could
recognise
whilst infusing
his fragrance
upon others.
It tore us apart.
me to spill henna
blossoms from my mouth
as he kisses away
the pain associated
with my rainy days.
He was humming canticles
that only I could
recognise
whilst infusing
his fragrance
upon others.
It tore us apart.
Written by shadow_starzzz
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