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Release Inner Anguish (Dark poetry from Dark poets)

This isn't a suicide or self harming contest, it's just a contest for darker and more depressing poetry, however these types of writes are allowed (Just please seek help if you feel mentally unstable)
There is too much happy poetry contests at the moment and all these quickie contests are annoying the crap out of me.

Rules:
Don't type all FuNkY.
Chat speak - use it if you must.
Be as graphic as you want.
Erotica is allowed so long as it isn't a full sex story.
Nothing over 100 lines if that's ok with you guys.
Prewrites and multiple entries p/person are allowed.
LABEL YOUR ENTRIES ACCORDINGLY!!
Ravenblood & I are both old enough to view the ghastly stuff, don't be timid
Don't write a piece if you feel you can't handle it emotionally.
I LIKE IT DARK BUT PLEASE NO PEDOPHILIA, WHAT'S UP WITH YOU GUYS!?

I've seen it all, I've been through all the depressing stuff in life including abuse of all kinds, drug use, attempted murder, everything so I don't care what you enter. You won't shock me but I love to read dark stuff.


Ravenblood is judging with me, even though I haven't exactly asked her yet, she loves me so she will

Ravenblood- Yes, I'm judging it with BandAid, she still hasn't asked me but I'm a good person. Don't worry about freaking us out or anything, between BandAid and I, we have literally been through it all.
Now Because there are a lot (and i mean A LOT) of entries anyone who gets into semi finals will get an invitation to, (if i choose to run it) a "Release Inner Anguish (Dark poetry from Dark poets) Part 2" Contest. But BandAid doesn't know about Part two yet, or part 3 or 4.

There's lots of points up for grabs, don't disappoint us.

Ravenblood- And About the picture, if you think you've seen it before on here, you probably have. I got the picture from a poem of AliceinPoetryLand's, and she got it from a contest. The Image is NOT a PROMPT!!! I just liked it and thought I'd put it up, and BandAid does not know about this just yet!!!

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on August 9, 2007
  • Rewards: Gold: 700, Silver: 400, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 4 people
  • Final notes:
    OK! Y'all are evil by the way. Nearly 100 entries, tsk tsk. Now, most of the entrants followed the rules, some didn't and well they won't be reading this! So huh, lol.
    Me and Raven nearly went insane judging this... Raven will get the all names of the poets in the finalists list and will send them a messege with the link to the next contest. ONLY the finalists and the HM winners are allowed. No gold silver or bronze because you guys have already won!
    Thank you all for the entries, amazing talent within each of you and my gosh, I was blown away.
    I'd have personally liked to have seen more fresh writes, however beggers can't be choosers.

    Congratulations to all those with trophies and all those invited to Raven's contest (follow on from this one) because the two of us saw such great poetry from you that we want more!!

    Luffles, Ravenblood & PutsABandAidOn

Contest Winners

  1. Was I Just a Game?
    Was every word you said to me / Calculated precicely / To get you what you wanted? / Was it all just a game? / When you would tease me, / W
    by grapefruite 29 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 25 7:30 PM 2007
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Voudou
    Like Bleeding Heroin...
    ...Interveinously...
    by Violent Messiah 23 lines, 27 comments, on Sep 16 10:17 PM 2006. In Personal, Dark
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. From Across the Night
    by Summer Dawn 47 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 20 9:53 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Personal, Sadness, metaphorically speaking
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Gorgeous Eyes Shine Suicide
    Her eyes are blue like april rain.
    br
    by SheCallsMeBaby 9 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 29 4:30 PM 2006. In Dark, Depressing, Cutting, Hurt, Pain, Blood, Suicide
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. Anathema
    Breathing Anesthesia
    Killing Loneliness With You
    by Violent Messiah 13 lines, 16 comments, on Feb 22 10:08 PM 2007. In Dark, Relationships, Dark Love
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  6. The Way I Kill...
    Where is my victim? / Wait, I can smell their fear / Trembling inside out / Oh, how I can't wait! / To taste the blood that runs inside / To hear them whisper / Their secret pleas for life / But will I gran
    by missunusual 36 lines, 2 comments, on May 22 12:35 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  7. When Passion Dies
    Don’t offer words to warm my hardened soul. / No soft caress can bring me back to life. / I’ve stayed too long, with thoughts of death my g
    by passim 17 lines, 51 comments, on Jun 14 3:38 PM 2007. In Lost love, Sad, Death, Sonnet
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  8. Inadequate
    A deep phobia: inadequacy

    by renizzle 9 lines, 13 comments, on May 29 11:07 PM 2007. In Acrostic, Life, Pain, Personal, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  9. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3176220, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  10. Love/Hate
    Her dreams withheld, words unspoken.
    br
    by SheCallsMeBaby 46 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 29 5:21 PM 2006. In Hate, Death, Regret
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  11. Friendship Never Tasted So Good
    by Dmonik 48 lines, 33 comments, on Jul 26 12:27 PM 2007. In Adult, Dark, My own style, Death, Angry, Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  12. Error: Unable to find finalist item 2969131, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  13. Just out of sight
    Into the fire, I am castEternity, it seems so smallLiving under deaths hand, so fastFollowing the evil demons callI am runnin
    by Luciferschild 20 lines, 16 comments, on Dec 13 10:29 PM 2005. In Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  14. Oh The Ladies
    Oh the ladies / Oh the ladies / how I sent them all to Hades / just to gaze upon the velvet of their skin / Oh the brilliant blood was bled
    by Intravenous Jesus 26 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 3 8:50 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  15. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3141454, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  16. Sonnet of the Deranged
    Ferocity of wind has bruised my face, / frozen ground rips skin right from my feet, / brutality in winter’s cold embrace, / still, through
    by Intravenous Jesus 17 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 31 7:29 AM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  17. Cheap as Sin
    Cheap as sin.
    Flaming questions
    by shadow-of-the-sun 89 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 19 9:57 AM 2006. In Sad, Spiritual, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

Entries [60]

1 - 60 of 60
  • Medicated By The Insecure
    It's I against I / Basis Instincts shrivel / Like a slug in the burning sun / The bell in my head tolls endlessly / Sound waves visible / Light rays unbearable / Both a six man gang / Ready to slaughter me like
    by TerrorAndHubris 17 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 11 12:20 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Personal, Abuse, Society, Thoughts, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • [ you dont know me ]
    you dont know me / you only see me / wearing black clothes to school / watching my every move / as if id waste my precious time on you / would you like to know what my time is used for? / well i shall share
    by ninchick08 19 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 22 11:15 PM 2007. In Fantasy
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Same Old. Song and Dance.
    Lets get that old song out of your head shall we? / You think you've heard it all. / But there is always something to top your expertise. / I have seen some terrible things. / Nightmares. Awake. In The Day Time. /
    by ARearViewMirror 40 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 22 10:48 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • "The One That Hides"
    (how were they to know); (how were they to see)
    by renizzle 31 lines, 11 comments, on May 1 8:26 PM 2007. In Dark, Weird, Misunderstood
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Say You Love Me
    Standing underneath a moon / Yet the sky is dark / As that of a storm / She waits for him under the trees / A knife is pressed against her
    by missunusual 39 lines, 6 comments, on May 21 12:46 PM 2007. In Sad, Love, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • A Bitter Winter
    Individual thinking unravels like yarn to knit a scarf of suffocation, suffocation cutting off any oxygen to fuel his schizo sphere. His thoughts turn negative below. Nothing now but frostbit paintings and shattered ramblings
    by TerrorAndHubris 0 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 12:38 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Thoughts, Abuse, Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The Bone Chugger
    I am the murderer who slips away. Like cancer I radiate through the infants, the elders, the strong, the weak. The only prejudices I display are absolute. My presence creeps through air with gagging thickness. My caress is sq
    by TerrorAndHubris 0 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 11 12:44 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Dark, Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • “A Replica of You”
    A somber poem that is also anti-suicidal. it's not a poem about my life, but is written of empatheticly drawn emotion.
    by renizzle 35 lines, 26 comments, on Apr 9 11:46 PM 2007. In anti-suicidal, death, loss, somber
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The Wolves of Savagery
    Like wolves in the freezing wastelands / Spittle drizzles from the mouths of the primal gods / Knuckles fall like the snow from the sky / I
    by TerrorAndHubris 8 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 22 11:44 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Leash
    Sweet Lacerations Of Your Kiss
    Imbibing This Cancerous Delight
    by Violent Messiah 38 lines, 29 comments, on Oct 10 9:55 AM 2006. In Personal, Love, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Happiness is a Free Balloon.
    by HeliumJones 27 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 28 9:52 PM 2007. In Dark, Other
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Reality
    The sun is shining
    The grass is growing
    by VampQueen 31 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 14 11:19 PM 2006. In Depression
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • As for the Damned:
    There is, / sorrow, such painful sorrow...
    by MJ Donnelly 49 lines, 15 comments, on Jul 22 7:44 PM 2007. In Dark, Death
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Full Moon
    Full Moon - delirious diseaster / I am your servant. You're my master. / The saddest face - the darkest tale / About a girl in yellow veil
    by Anastasiya 11 lines, 17 comments, on May 28 1:31 AM 2007. In Dark, Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Two Predators
    Strong,bloodthirsty,in love.Forsaken by god and truly free.
    by Lady Nightshade 62 lines, 16 comments, on Jun 8 3:45 AM 2007. In Lyrics, Dark, Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Bloody Water
    by Creatress 66 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 16 1:37 AM 2006. In Personal, Spiritual, Dark, Anger
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • I dangle lonely
    I dangle from a twisting flame
    Adjoined to a tenacious fire
    by Creatress 48 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 7 1:47 PM 2006. In Society
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Sooner
    by sarajaneUK 63 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 23 4:06 AM 2007. In Adult, Dark, Sad, Suicide
    • Commented on by judge.
  • A Lifetime Of Damned Days
    Splitting shrieking, desolate screams / This is definitely not a dream / Razors floating above my head
    by The Void 14 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 21 6:22 AM 2007. In dark, abuse
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Glasyalabolas I - The Prophecy
    by Glasyalabolas 56 lines, 8 comments, on May 27 5:58 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Dark, Spiritual, Fantasy, My own style, Anger, Freewrite
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Zombie
    Here I am staring out / from inside / this prison of self / The world alive / pulses and swirls / around me / But nothing penetrates this /
    by vierna 22 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 19 3:14 AM 2007. In Pain, personal, sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Heart Stabber
    by Forlorn Dreams 19 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 14 8:54 PM 2007. In Sad, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Night
    The words in my head, / These chaotic thoughts / Seem to beat each other up, / Fight each other for my attention, / Pushing themselves ahea
    by SheCallsMeBaby 69 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 17 2:17 AM 2007. In madness, frustration, relief, night
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Raped
    I close my eyes tightly / Tears fall from them / The memory of that night / Still haunting my thoughts / How could you do this? / Make me feel so dirty? / Make me feel like a whore? / Is that what I really
    by TwiztidMaggot 26 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 4 12:09 PM 2007. In Lyrics, Pain, Personal, Life, Angst
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • A wish...
    If I have to go.. before I'm ready to, / Tell everyone... that I love them I do. / I say my "byes" with a heavy heart, I know; / And I conf
    by arnica karuna 18 lines, 12 comments, on May 12 12:44 PM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Sad, Personal, Pain, Thoughts
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Queen of the Shadows
    Wherever she goes, shadows follow
    Beasts and humans, alike, fear her.
    Her heart is icy-cold and hollow,
    by NooNiThEWitcH 67 lines, 51 comments, on Oct 2 2:44 PM 2006. In Fantasy, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Holding Back My Tears
    by NooNiThEWitcH 56 lines, 18 comments, on Sep 14 6:22 PM 2005. In Sad, Personal, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Into the Hole of Oblivion
    Into the Hole of Oblivion / I had feelings once / for a certain person, / I wrote of them, / I sang of them, / I prayed for a meeting / But ALL to no avail! / Time passed, / and never healed,
    by NooNiThEWitcH 92 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 19 1:06 PM 2007. In Angst, Sad, Personal, Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Here lies Me...
    When will the wind cease to beat upon my Already turbulent seaside?
    by sunflowerpoet 30 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 1 9:24 AM 2007. In personal, sad, death
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • i din t want to do it but........
    my life started easy,love was everything we shared
    my parents were like everyone elses, they always cared
    by trace3grls 31 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 5 11:42 PM 2006. In Dark
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The Unknown Soldier
    The wind blows peacefully / The ocean dance joyful / The trees are chanting and whispering / And the starry show us the path. / As we prepa
    by the-element-of-one 61 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 13 11:40 AM 2007. In sad, hope
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Cradled in my Mind
    Cradled In my Mind.
    Deserted.
    by shadow-of-the-sun 93 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 19 10:02 AM 2006. In Love, Dark, Angst
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Saga of the "mighty 6-6-6"
    In the dead of the night, he comes and his demonic crew from hell, drinking the devils blood red brews.
    by p3charmed 11 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 4 1:55 PM 2007. In Dark
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Rubies and Death
    by Stormy Sky 38 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 24 7:01 PM 2007. In Abuse, Angst, Dark, Love, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Scarlet Ink
    Scarlet ink
    Was not meant
    To paint the walls
    by Stormy Sky 59 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 24 6:28 PM 2007. In Abuse, Angst, Dark, Personal, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The Place
    It was cold, very cold, / And I was weary, oh so weary, / For I was in a frozen place / And gone from it was anything cheery. / The place was not a wasteland— / It was no place at all, / And it seemed tight like a
    by grapefruite 39 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 9 9:11 PM 2007. In Dark, Spiritual
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Sizzling Rage
    They say those things And pretend they care,
    by grapefruite 17 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 4 6:12 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • casual discovery
    by spine 14 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 26 1:07 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • catalyst
    by spine 24 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 4 11:07 PM 2007. In Weird, Sad, Pain, Personal
    • Commented on by judge.
  • The Stalker's Promise
    Now I have seen your calmness. Shake and crack
    As you might wish it too, I have seen.
    by micol 23 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 5 1:30 AM 2007. In Contest, Darkness, Fear, Stalker, Threat
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Splinter of Old Memories
    The moths of forgiveness have yet to come and set my old memories to rest.
    by Denierim 36 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 5:49 AM 2007. In Dark-ish, Sad, Life, My own style
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Searching For Sarah
    Sarah was my best friend ever / She promised me it would be forever / So I’m lying here in this toxic nightmare / Waiting for her to come back / And fix my dreams that she shattered / I watched her drift away from m
    by frostany 20 lines, 7 comments, on May 25 6:07 PM 2007. In dark, addiction, mental illness
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • Conspiracy- Who Am I
    by Menace 27 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 4 8:06 PM 2007. In Fantasy, Thoughts, Weird
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite

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  • Ich bin das Ender
    July 22, 2007
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    Some of these guys

    Just didn't read the rules all the way


  • ARearViewMirror
    July 22, 2007
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    I would join...but i dont know how? lol. Sorry. I haven't done many contests. I have a good poem though. I wish you could read it. :/


    • Girl With Guitar silver member
      July 22, 2007
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      Lol just click on "Enter a pre-written poem" if you've already posted the poem on allpoetry


  • fallenstar588
    July 22, 2007
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    aww, come on babies are people too, and people killing is allowed... whats wrong with the babie killing... atleast their writing it and not doing it!

    • Girl With Guitar silver member
      July 22, 2007
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      Just mainly the pedophilia stuff
      Baby killing just seems so much worse than killing people, it seems personal some how.
      I agree with you, at least they're not doing it! But I'm the contest runner So it's up to my discretion


  • TwiztidMaggot
    July 27, 2007
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    this is a really cool contest! good luck to everyone who entered!!!


  • RIP Whoever
    August 4, 2007
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    wow.... that picture is so insirational-full *giggle* no wonder why it's been through a change of usage



    i saw how many entries, and decided to sit this one out. but your froggie will join in on your next contest, (if it's not number 2 that raven was talking about )

    • Girl With Guitar silver member
      August 4, 2007
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      I know right! There's a crazy amount of entries!

      My next contest that I'll hold on my own will be a creative writing one You can enter if you like! I have to work on it for awhile though, I'm getting exhausted from ths contest!!


  • Summer Dawn
    August 9, 2007
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    tank oooo


  • Never Fall in Love
    August 9, 2007
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    ooo

    Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!
    Congrats to all the winners

    NeveR ♥


  • Undaunted1
    August 15, 2007
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    Thanks for hosting and congratulations to the winners. Everyone is someone. The U1

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