Contest Doubt by azure85 at All poetry

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Descartes

Write a poem from the prompt. Free verse or form, poet's choice.

Rules:

1. Write a poem from the prompt, you can have multiple entries.

2. No adult content or StIcKy CaPs

3. Credit any graphics used.

4. Have fun!

Contest is Over

Contest was judged on May 3, 2008
Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 13 people
Final notes:
Thank you all for such great poems based on the prompt. After reading them all, it seems like each poet wrote from within their own experiences about Doubt. Thank you very much, I enjoyed reading each entry many times.
Susie

Contest Winners

Where Love is a Continuum

by runewalker 28 lines, 6 comments, on May 1 10:48 PM 2008
Gold trophy winner

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My Cast-Off

by Lyndon 13 lines, 13 comments, on May 1 9:07 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Contest, Life, Love, Thoughts, Sad
Silver trophy winner

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Truth and Doubt

by spiritualangel 58 lines, 3 comments, on May 1 11:35 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Contest
Honorable mention

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The Conflict Of Contradictions

If one will endure the conflict of contradiction. And patiently go through the dark tunnel years.

by 2lullabyhaven 19 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 18 9:43 PM 2008. In Contest, Life, Thoughts
Honorable mention

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Doubt

I doubted at nine, that the tooth fairy gave me money for my tooth.

by alexandrathegreat 32 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 19 3:37 AM 2008
Honorable mention

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Excursion

clearly Descartes thought
that the very act proved it.

by cherylline 5 lines, 4 comments, on May 1 6:16 AM 2008. In Haiku, Experimental, Contest
Honorable mention

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Faded Blossoms

All around me, I can feel the flowers But I cannot see, cannot smell

by Kokaze 19 lines, 2 comments, on May 1 7:15 AM 2008. In Personal, pain, sad, thoughts, life, society, angst, contest
Honorable mention

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Just Believe! (acrostic)

Say to me "I doubt everything I eventually believe,
Eyes must never be closed for then I could not see";

by Carly Pop 15 lines, 1 comment, on May 1 8:36 AM 2008
Honorable mention

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The Dreamer

To dream, to believe that in all the world
Not a single soul has fallen...

by seclusion 27 lines, 2 comments, on May 1 12:10 PM 2008
Honorable mention

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Doubt

How can I share my doubts with you?
Give them the power of the page

by deercatcher 16 lines, 5 comments, on May 1 9:23 PM 2008. In Thoughts
Honorable mention

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Your Love

I just can't bring myself to believe That you might possibly love me.

by mmsgurl18 28 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 18 10:44 PM 2008. In Hope, Pain, Thoughts, Love, Questioning
Honorable mention

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Doubting

What is real? What is true, my heart asks.

by Shancy Fayre 12 lines, 3 comments, on May 1 9:29 AM 2008. In Angst, Contest
Honorable mention

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See what you have done to me! Aren't you proud?!?!

by only1love4ever 38 lines, 1 comment, on May 1 12:14 PM 2008
Honorable mention

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[ How can I believe ]

How can I believe this friendship is eternal

by Amaranth Dihdzere 27 lines, 1 comment, on May 1 11:37 PM 2008
Honorable mention

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