Poetry competition CLOSED 23rd October 2017 5:44am
WINNER
Anonymous
Anonymous
RUNNER-UP:
gorryone810
Autumn
"Leaves"
The first leaf changes color
Dangling un-fallen from the tree
Its shadow wilts upon the floor
Seemingly before one degree
Has fallen from the mercury
As flocks of birds in flight
Moving south until the spring
Like eyes that say goodnight
Curling up and swaying
Much like hands that wave goodbye
Howling winds of Autumn
Shake the waving mountain seas
Even after the Mabon sun
Winter cannot claim victory
Until the last one leaves
(jj)
The first leaf changes color
Dangling un-fallen from the tree
Its shadow wilts upon the floor
Seemingly before one degree
Has fallen from the mercury
As flocks of birds in flight
Moving south until the spring
Like eyes that say goodnight
Curling up and swaying
Much like hands that wave goodbye
Howling winds of Autumn
Shake the waving mountain seas
Even after the Mabon sun
Winter cannot claim victory
Until the last one leaves
(jj)
"Sleep - Hiding From The Touch Of Death"
A slight chill disturbs the warm air
A change is coming but it treats life so unfair
What a scene, my eyes stop to stare
On a mountain my eyes behold a living flare
Though he's dying he doesn't care
for he knows one day he'll become his own heir
Now I sit in my rocking chair
Watching Life and Death consummate their love affair
He's given a chance to prepare
Then again it seems more like war that they declare
As Fates hand strips his body bare
Over and over death is met without a prayer
Out beyond the snow and the glare
In the field I see a skeleton over there
(jj)
A slight chill disturbs the warm air
A change is coming but it treats life so unfair
What a scene, my eyes stop to stare
On a mountain my eyes behold a living flare
Though he's dying he doesn't care
for he knows one day he'll become his own heir
Now I sit in my rocking chair
Watching Life and Death consummate their love affair
He's given a chance to prepare
Then again it seems more like war that they declare
As Fates hand strips his body bare
Over and over death is met without a prayer
Out beyond the snow and the glare
In the field I see a skeleton over there
(jj)
Anonymous
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Will I Also Return
I was young as spring,
and held to an autumn's wind
like pomegranates
hung from the highest branches
before black crows hollowed them
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autumn flurries came
with the scent of fallen fruit,
piles of dying leaves,
dark brothers crushed underfoot
to be shelter for next spring
This is a Rensaku of linked Tanka.
Written by Jade-Pandora
(jade tiger)
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Autumn Night
(A necrolovers' demise)
Clapping leaves left behind their branches
As darkness embraces my wounded soul
Seeing nothing I raced against time
Towards the unknown with hate in my heart
Wherever I would find my lost being
Know that it's towards you I was going
You were my nemesis, how come my pillar too?
As much as I liked to kill you
That's as much I love you too
As well as I detested the sight of you
It's as intense of how I longed to touch every inch of you
Vile taste resides inside my mouth
And the chime danced to the tune of loon behind my back
Our bodies unite and my sanity falls in chunk
Mixing in with the salad of delectable insides
Of someone lifeless, swimming in crimson grounds
Oh, what heavenly smell and enticing sight!
Absolutely beautiful, making me reached a record's high.
You and I, we are two of a kind
We never should have met
Perhaps one life could have been spared
Before another one is sacrificed
To the glory of our earthly desires
Let me pull close the season come sundown, my love.
Our kind shouldn't be allowed a spring nor summer
Not even the white snow of winter
With this blade, let's fall to darkness together
They are safe now...
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Clapping leaves left behind their branches
As darkness embraces my wounded soul
Seeing nothing I raced against time
Towards the unknown with hate in my heart
Wherever I would find my lost being
Know that it's towards you I was going
You were my nemesis, how come my pillar too?
As much as I liked to kill you
That's as much I love you too
As well as I detested the sight of you
It's as intense of how I longed to touch every inch of you
Vile taste resides inside my mouth
And the chime danced to the tune of loon behind my back
Our bodies unite and my sanity falls in chunk
Mixing in with the salad of delectable insides
Of someone lifeless, swimming in crimson grounds
Oh, what heavenly smell and enticing sight!
Absolutely beautiful, making me reached a record's high.
You and I, we are two of a kind
We never should have met
Perhaps one life could have been spared
Before another one is sacrificed
To the glory of our earthly desires
Let me pull close the season come sundown, my love.
Our kind shouldn't be allowed a spring nor summer
Not even the white snow of winter
With this blade, let's fall to darkness together
They are safe now...
©All Rights Reserved
Written by OxyMoronicMe
(G.L.)
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Autumn
We sat in the park
Leaves falling to the ground
We kissed
Your lips were cold
Autumn is coming
Leaves falling to the ground
We kissed
Your lips were cold
Autumn is coming
Written by gorryone810
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I’m Falling…Again
I’m falling
The season is here again
The cool weather seems to bring together familiar sensations
The breeze and atmosphere bring random commemorations
As I again fall free verse
It’s something about autumn
It’s like days of youth and expectation
When the world was a bigger place I had yet to go discover
The surprises life had in store for me that I would encounter
That I’d fall but get up again
I love the change in the wind
When leaves are tumbling announcing chilly days
Time for sweaters, scarves and gloves whenever it gets that cold
Like an interlude between the seasons ready to perform again
In the playing leaves once more
There is a distinct sound to it
The crisp air seems to travel with an echo in my ear
As if the resonance of years gone by accumulate in the sky
A melody of nostalgic memories both good and bad revere
When the leaves are falling again
I’m falling
The season is here again
The cool weather seems to bring together familiar sensations
The breeze and atmosphere bring random commemorations
As I again fall free verse
It’s something about autumn
It’s like days of youth and expectation
When the world was a bigger place I had yet to go discover
The surprises life had in store for me that I would encounter
That I’d fall but get up again
I love the change in the wind
When leaves are tumbling announcing chilly days
Time for sweaters, scarves and gloves whenever it gets that cold
Like an interlude between the seasons ready to perform again
In the playing leaves once more
There is a distinct sound to it
The crisp air seems to travel with an echo in my ear
As if the resonance of years gone by accumulate in the sky
A melody of nostalgic memories both good and bad revere
When the leaves are falling again
Remission (A Poem Of Autumn)
Fall preformed
Arrives-
In shaken needles
Blankets of burnt sunrise
Muffling Adidas footfalls
Droplets descend
To roots caked in cracked thirst
Flushing our irate haze
The recovery of verve
Mending smoggy malaise
Gluey blue tones
Glance off an early ending
Angled Indian summer
In bitten apples
Crisp-
Impending sour bliss
Insects relent to
Careers skittering
Spent-
The littering snowbirds
In misdirected intents
Soar southwardly
And away migrate those obnoxious Cali plates...
Arrives-
In shaken needles
Blankets of burnt sunrise
Muffling Adidas footfalls
Droplets descend
To roots caked in cracked thirst
Flushing our irate haze
The recovery of verve
Mending smoggy malaise
Gluey blue tones
Glance off an early ending
Angled Indian summer
In bitten apples
Crisp-
Impending sour bliss
Insects relent to
Careers skittering
Spent-
The littering snowbirds
In misdirected intents
Soar southwardly
And away migrate those obnoxious Cali plates...
Written by AtoMikbomb
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Mabon Moon
Indian Summer burns like fire across the sky
Unseasonably warm till the rains dampen the flames
The Mabon breeze battles fiercely with Summer's heat
Together raking leaves off of the slumbered trees
Before releasing their tired grip all green turns into red
As I fall into a sea of leaves I fear I've lost the light within
When darkness casts her shadow across the Harvest Moon
My Autumn gray strips away the color foolish youth once granted me
While her Spring sun rises high my Sol sets within this chilled body
My pawns are gone as my knight fights with the courage of futility
No checkmating between her Equinox and mine can ever be
For I have but the desolation Winter brings to bring me to an end
and as her light begins to fade away I can see I've lost a friend
-
(JJ Johnson)
Indian Summer burns like fire across the sky
Unseasonably warm till the rains dampen the flames
The Mabon breeze battles fiercely with Summer's heat
Together raking leaves off of the slumbered trees
Before releasing their tired grip all green turns into red
As I fall into a sea of leaves I fear I've lost the light within
When darkness casts her shadow across the Harvest Moon
My Autumn gray strips away the color foolish youth once granted me
While her Spring sun rises high my Sol sets within this chilled body
My pawns are gone as my knight fights with the courage of futility
No checkmating between her Equinox and mine can ever be
For I have but the desolation Winter brings to bring me to an end
and as her light begins to fade away I can see I've lost a friend
-
(JJ Johnson)
