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A Need To Know Basis

David_Macleod
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Poetry Contest

Any genre or even a mixture of genres tell me 6 things I should know about you
See the example below - its 10 things - I am only asking you for six

title the poem "6 things you need to know about me"

It can be honest or made up, light or dark, serious or comedic or even a mixture of genres

any length
new writes only
multiple entries allowed
no collabs

Just have some fun with it


10 Things you should know about me 1.0

 
1.

I am impotent
I am kinda like
A rhinoceros
Without the horn

2.

I have an eye for the ladies
Which I take out and polish
Every night

3.

My teeth are all my own
Technically that wasn’t true
I also take them out and polish
Them every night
But they are mine
Unless you want to try
Them for size

4.

I have the heart of a lion
And the balls of a poet
Which makes interesting
Reading; lots of roaring
And things that rhyme
With Gonads

5.

I have hatred for haters
And those who hate
Even if they hate the haters
Hating with hate for haters
Should not be hated
And I hate anyone with hatred
That hates this poem

6.

I used to be a boxer
A boxer dog that is
I was forever humping
Other peoples legs
But then; I couldn’t
Hump my own legs
Could I?
Go on, go on
Tickle my tummy

7.

I am missing both my legs
They’ve been gone a while
They never write
They never phone
Not even a postcard
Wish they were here!

8.

I am my own worst enemy
I am forever slapping the
Shit out of myself
And calling me names
Bad names
Both C words

9.

I never eat my greens
Despite all the posturing
Of others, despite the
Nagging;
“Eat up your greens
Eat up your greens!”
Personally I prefer
To blow them into
A handkerchief

10.

I have decided that my new
Gender identification is as
A basket of fruit
I will expect you
To use the correct
Pronouns from now on
Berry
Compote
Peel

And

Tangerine

Thank you

OxyMoronicMe
G.L.
Dangerous Mind
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SIX THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ME

I hate my given name
I feel it's not mine to claim
Was named after my grandmere
And she was born Holy Saturday
And so poor me was named "Little Holy Saturday"
But, Fuck! I was born in December.

I seldom cry
Not because I am tough
But mostly because I compartmentalized
I already knew, that my tearbags could easily overflow
And to pain, I am sensitive to a fault
But I can't let myself drown in my own sorrows
So I mastered the art of feign indifference

I have never been in love
I just haven't felt that strongly towards any man
Sure, I felt attraction, admiration and adoration
But not to a point of mooning and lovelorn
I wondered if I will ever be
I am not hoping nor actively seeking
Only just a passing curiosity

I am a dreamer, and most comfortable when alone
thinking of an alternate reality, where I am - alone
For my reality, is full of people who never left me alone
And I am a person, that lives and breathes people
I people's person who dreams to be all alone
How confused I must be, but truly, I'm living in both worlds

I don't like sex very much
Oh, no! I have no trauma, don't you ever think that.
I also wondered myself why, I felt more gratified
When I sexed myself, better than having sex with a man
I figured, I can live without.
But sometimes my mind dives to perversion
And so with my ink, I draw that illusion

I am a glutton that doesn't get fat
Nor gain any height, I wonder where
Those nutrients are storing themselves up.
Not in my boobs, thats for sure
(I only got endowed with less than a handful)

For now, see that side of me
tomorrow, I might turn and show
A frontal in nude
Bare my heart and strip my soul
but don't count on it
I am a shy girl if truth be told.
(but also I may be lying)




Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
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Six things you should know about me

1.  
I am Jack of all trades,  
Not a jack of all trades.  
The name is Jack, or Jackie  
'Cause I fell on my head when  
I was born and my senses  
Hid behind my seashell brain  
And froze there, gender-bi.  
 
2.  
My mother dressed me up like  
Her dolls Mary & Cathy,  
Only with clits.  
Festooned my hair with ribbons,  
And white Mary Jane shoes  
With lace ankle sox to church,  
Clueless as to what it meant.  
 
3.  
I was only three when I  
Sat in a chapel pew  
Watching a pretty bride walk  
Down the aisle to a priest  
Who waited as her gown hem swayed  
While the groom stood next to him,  
And I screamed "THAT'S MY DADDY!"  
 
4.  
It was a year later  
'Till the congregation knew  
I wasn't a bastard child  
By their new son-in-law.  
I had simply wandered in,  
The wedding march went quiet  
And I hollered, overwhelmed.  
 
5.  
Is that the tomboy in me?  
I'm just the way I am,  
Not wasting time wondering.  
'Cause I've always loved climbing  
Trees with patches on my jeans,  
And my hair in the wind  
And dirt ground into my knees.  
 
6.  
I'm always spontaneous  
And very gregarious.  
Every party I've been to,  
I'll sing & laugh & hug you.  
I even love to square dance,  
And polka? Don't get me started!  
Whoa! Too late, HA, here I go!  
 
 
 
 
For the DUP competition "A Need to Know Basis"
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David_Macleod
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thank you so much Jade-Pandora and OxyMoronicMe for getting this comp going with two very different and wonderful entries :-))))))))

poet Anonymous

Six Things You Need to Know About Me

I.
I was one of six
superglue tight
in the dawn of our lives
impervious to danger
as long as we were together
and yet I ever stood alone

II.
I was given a name
unused and ill fitting
so unfamiliar it was someone else
I even forgot how to spell it
and in time
I became myself

III.
the bite of the world
fades to insignificance
whenever my voice lifts in song
secretly though
when no one is near
I only sing alone

IV.
I uncovered my passion
so late in life
it no longer matters
but I express it nonetheless
searing the screen
rather than repress

V.
I am a guardian
looking out for others
though often in danger
of neglecting self
but I draw strength in the knowledge
I can sometimes help

VI.
I'm a dreamer
trapped in "reality"
unsure I fit in here
but I keep my arms open
just waiting for an embrace
I breathe love, never hate

poet Anonymous

Six Things You Need To Know About Me

1.

According to the moon
I was born Pisces; a water sign
meaning I wear silver jewelry,
shout irrationally at the traffic,
and wear long gypsy skirts
that could possibly smuggle
strangers across my border

when Pisceans kiss you, you'll wonder
why you ever stayed loyal
to Scorpio's wildfire
when the gill-girls will drown your ass
in the manic style of a sensual
(and yet rather confused) mermaid,
chained to the sub-aquatic whoring floor.

2.

I once made out with a Jew
on the roof of a synagogue
and to this day
cannot see a Menorah
without being both
horrified and aroused

I have no regrets about this
primarily because God works
in mysterious ways
and the prayers inscribed
on my inner thighs thank him
wholeheartedly for that.

3.

in honour of a few tales like this,
I've been obsessed with men's hands
for as long as I can remember
and would rather see a picture
of a person's palm
than their face.

I can spend hours on it
over-analysing every line,
every crease and crevice
telling their stories of living,
the way knuckles knot themselves
to the bone like strange anchors
tethered to the heart

(and there, the mermaid
enters in)

4.

thanks to all previous calamity,
I'm now in a serious relationship
with this guy called death
and I'd like to say
we're pretty bad for each other

mainly because I'm afraid to commit
and he has abandonment issues.

5.

if you've ever loved me
you'll know why they name
all the fiercest storms
after women

6.

I worry that the thunder
will never be loud enough,
that the rain will not
wash away the debris

that lightning will not
burn these afterthoughts,
buried in the sacred hollows
of me.


rabbitquest
Dangerous Mind
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ANEEDTOKNOWBASIS
 
   
1)DOB: NOW A TEEN KISS
             
2)Attitude towards drug use
  TOKE NOW, SIS AND ABE

3)Philosophy of Time and Space  
 KEO:  NOW IS BEAT SAND

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO

4) Musical preferences
EOE WONK BAND SISTA

5) Sexual orientation
TO ASS. ED BONE WANK I

6 Sleeping Habits
AS WE ON TO BED , I SNAK.

7. Athletic Sport
TAE KWON DO AB'S.  (NISE)  



 




David_Macleod
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thank you so much FromTheAsh, Miss_Sub  and rabbitquest  for three more excellent entries again the level of talent in this comp so far exceeds excellent :-)))))))

poet Anonymous

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Viddax
Lord Viddax
Guardian of Shadows
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Six things you need to know about me

1.
By my true name I am
'Beloved, Alder tree grove, One who smites',
but I present myself as Viddax
because I want to be me and more
and there are worse things to be called.

2.
I am a Pisces Man
and have a English Literature and Philosophy Combined Honours Degree
which means I am all words and little to show for it
all mystery, misdirection, and emotion
just short a millennia or two for it to be fashionable.

3.
I am lost.
A Pisces in the time when even organized religion is shaky,
A man in the time when gender is more like a game of scrabble,
(and false gender equality makes being a male a dirty privilege rather than a simple right)
An Englishman in the time of Brexit; need I say more?,
A Monkey of the Chinese Zodiac in the time of the internet and machine,
A mixed-race moustache grower in the time of hipsters and fundamentalist Islam
(both give the fuzz a bad name),
A Philosophy student in the time of fake news and social media,
An English Literature student in the time of Netflix and YouTube.
Wrong time, wrong face perhaps?

4.
I have an awful memory for names and details
as four of my school friends were called 'Chris',
but can generally come up with an old pun
or joke at the drop of a hat
or a proverb when push comes to shove.

5.
It seems I can speak and translate idiot;
with an eclectic taste and little reliance on technology
added to vague half-remembered hints
I can help remember that famous person's name
or roughly where that quote comes from
and what is meant by that garbled mixed-up metaphor.

6.
I live most of my life in day dreams and imagination
and for all my sarcastic words, I am not that much a cynic
as I do believe in the goodness of humanity
although I have never been in love:
I've loved and been infatuated,
but true love is a two-way street and for now I walk a lonesome road.

(7. When all is said and done, I'm still alive so its not all bad. Just a shame I'm alive but not living.)
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dejure
vick
Dangerous Mind
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six things you should know about me

 
 
 
~[one]~
sorry ladies am married
am a one lady guy till I'm buried
 
 
~[two]~
am an Asian but my eyes aren't thin
full of sarcastic humour shell and within
 
 
~[three]~
my skin is dark but am not of the black
if you give me a smile I will give one back
 
 
~[four]~
the one that swims upstream I try to be  
but I'll be swimming in reverse eventually  
 
 
~[five]~
everything I do, I do it in style
now on a path away from the defile  
 
 
~[six]~
following the footsteps of the saviour
buried all my previous behaviours
 
 
 
 
 
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for the comp
A Need To Know Basis
_____

 
 
 
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nightbirdblue
enbyblue
Fire of Insight
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Six Things You Should Know About Me - An Anthology

 
Plug into these tunes
To honor the naked wounds
I display here for you-
 
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjSozKL_EA ]
 
 
One:

I used to be a cutter
A decade of self-inflicted torture
A variety of bangs and bruises
Cigarette burns and chemical scorches
 
Starving for those bones to show
Piercing safety pins where they do not go
When I asked for help- they gave me pills
At school surrounded by imbeciles
 
So they sent me to an out-patient hospital
They didn’t like me there; I was non-committal
I stirred a rebellion against the true depression
I would not be bent unto their submission…
 
So they kicked me out
 
Lifelong will I be in recovery
Even all these many years later
I still fight the urges in drudgery
The visuals are a blaring saber
 
Ensnaring and suffocating…
But I do not hide my scars
Sometimes a stranger may stare
I am blunt now in response
 
In 15 years I have encountered
Only one stranger's open heart
Whom I was entirely comfortable
Acknowledging my scars
 
Forever I will wear my pain
Tattooed upon my arms
An open book for you to see
The darkness in my heart
 
Two:

At 13- I was made to watch
The Passion of The Christ
Fellow members surrounding me
Of the Lutheran Church in fright
 
In that theater I wept not
For the same reasons as they
Mom & Dad, I cried- WHY
Are you forcing me to stay?
 
The ripping skin
Pools of blood…
The razor's kiss
To which I run...
 
It was then that I lost faith
In my devout religion
And lost trust in Mom & Dad’s
Unholy sacred vision
 
Three:

I wanted to become a Bikkhuni
A Theravada Buddhist Nun
I quit adorning jewelry
Wore no scents of perfumed gum
I quit shaving everywhere
Judgements I no longer cared
I ceased composing poetry
No longer did I care to sing
I meditated and contemplated
I learned the ancient Sanskrit tongue
I went to a hermitage deep in
The northern Californian wood
 
But slowly rising in that plane
Departing from that sacred place
Climbing through the billowing clouds
The sky pierced blue- I had no doubt
I wept
I knew…
 
I would never return

Four:

I am a Gemini

Forever battling
The dark and the light
Imbalanced though
Perpetual night
 
Confusing to others
I make complete sense to me
Tell me all your secrets
And you will see
 
I often mask
My own reality
Unless you care
To dig in deep
 
I am not afraid
Of my own truths
Or conversations
That may ensue
 
I will bleed out my story
At the turn of a page
I will not judge you for yours
We could talk for days
 
Be warned
I am a variety
Of everything
That you wish was true
 
But I am also
An accumulation  
Of the things
That you fear in you
 
Five:

In “real life” I have no friends
I won’t even pretend
 
A memory from little Audrey
At the age of perhaps 3
I recall a friend so dear to me
The day of my heart's felony...
 
I warned her to move- get out of the way!
No longer could I hold the heavy porch swing
I let go and it bashed in her skull
I hid from mother; I became numb
 
Somehow I have managed to hurt
Everyone that I’ve ever loved
But such is the way of a lost soul
There’s no point in covering it up
 
Hurt people hurt other people
Because they are not whole
I am too exhausted to befriend you
My heart too bitter and cold
 
Six:

I am an INTJ female

According to such a profile- I am rare
Less than 1% of the population scarce
 
But rare also means
Often feeling
Alone
And misunderstood
 
Malfunctions of
My mind displayed
Compartmentalize INTJ
 
Can you relate?
 
Of course not
 
...I will not elaborate
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eswaller
Dangerous Mind
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Things to Know About Me

1.
I am proud of my name Elena Waller because
It comes from a long line of amazingly strong
And independent women. It makes me proud
Of my heritage on both sides of my family.

2.
As much as my life, as well as my smiles are filled
With happiness and laughter there dark days
Filled with clouds too. For once, I am okay
With that because it makes me feel human.

3.
I love sports and more importantly I love baseball.

4.
Writing poetry makes me feel safe and feel
Like I have a safe place to call home.

5.
I can drown myself in chocolate because
It solves all of my problems, worries and stress.

6.
Just like poetry, music and books are healing.
They save me and bring me into my world
Of peace and belonging. All of these are
A huge part of me.
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David_Macleod
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thank you Stillborn, Viddax, dejure, nightbirdblue and eswaller - fantastic writes all very different - this is gonna be a hard choice :-)

seekingkate
kateA
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I redid it David...bloody editing

Check further down the entries

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