Give Me Something Sad

Contest is Over

• Contest was judged on August 31, 2008
• Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 300, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 5 people
• Final notes:
  so this was a very hard decision. and i'm sorry it took me so long to judge this- my computer is just not up to speed like many peoples' is.
  i want to thank everybody for entering because i really enjoyed reading every single poem that came my way.
  congratulations to the winners!! =)

Contest Winners

1. Melancholia

   Can you see my tears of black / The ones which burn holes in my skin. / As another night is wasted, alone / The acidic river floods my face

   by Immortal Obscurity 39 lines, 19 comments, on Jun 3 2:05 PM 2007. In Dark, Sad, Anger, Pain, Weird.
   Gold trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
2. vintage confessions.

   by aanika 69 lines, 60 comments, on Jul 25 11:37 PM 2008
   Silver trophy winner

   • Viewed by judge. Prewrite [remove]
3. A painful truth, A cried tear. (Story)

   A Story about a girl and a brokenheart.

   by Klayer 10 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 4 12:47 PM 2008. In Personal., Personal, Life, Sad, Pain, Longing, Sadness, Lost love, Dedication
   Bronze trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
4. Crying Myself To Sleep

   Wiping my tears, they only tear more,
   a tear drop, strikes floor.

   by crazyspyker666 30 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 13 1:30 AM 2006. In Dark
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
5. If Only...

   If only I could take each time we shared
   and string them together like a necklace of pearls.

   by Pandorea 39 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 6 3:42 AM 2008. In Sad, Life, Love
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
6. Death comes with open arms

   You talked to me honestly
   I don’t believe you

   by loveaswellashate 64 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 28 6:36 PM 2006. In Sad, Love, Angst
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
7. Early Suicider

   She just wanted to end it all... She just did...

   by sofis-not-dead-yet 58 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 4 6:00 PM 2008. In suicide, love, sad, death, end, tears

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
8. "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 [remove]
9. Because You Killed Me

   If you only knew what is was you've done to me
   If you could only see the pain inside my head

   by blackrosesteph 50 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 26 1:41 PM 2008. In Dark, Life, Sad, Pain, Personal

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
10. Sky.

    Stars shivered in the endless blackness of sky / Night washed over us / In hues of ebon dusk. / I loved him. / And maybe, sometimes, he lo

    by sora. 15 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 29 4:35 AM 2007. In Love, Thoughts

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
11. Broken heart

    My love, My heart, My man.
    We were in love, so grand and so new.

    by Charee 29 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 5 12:47 PM 2008. In Sad, Hope, Pain, Life

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
12. Your Words Are Bullets

    In case you didn’t notice, I’m way past broken
    My tears, they fall, for words unspoken

    by she still smiles x 16 lines, 24 comments, on Mar 23 9:18 PM 2008. In Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Love, Life, Angst

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
13. Empty[he always was]

    by WishMeAway--x 39 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 13 10:58 AM 2008

    • Viewed by judge. [remove]

Entries [85]

• I Don't Love You Anymore.

  Being the master of deception;; how does it feel now that you've lost?
  How is every decision that I make; result in yet another heartbreak

  by innocence jaded.xx 36 lines, 6 comments, on May 6 6:32 PM 2008. In Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Bottom of the Death Valley

  by Kyo-N 30 lines, 14 comments, on May 26 3:13 AM 2008. In Loss, Lost love, Suicide, Contest, Depression, Sadness, Depressed, Sad, Dark

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Afraid.

  shine dark down in abyss

  by Apocalyptic Scarves 28 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 14 12:11 PM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Fly Away

  I never wanted you to fly away
  My dawn has turned to blackened day

  by Michael H. 18 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 5 12:22 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Razor Blade Tears

  by peridotPixi 25 lines, 21 comments, on Jul 30 12:09 PM 2008. In Dark, Pain, Personal

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Never Again

  I really don't kno why i wrote it. Just did a freewrite and that's what came outta it

  by musicalangel1449 38 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 3 5:29 PM 2008. In Sad, Pain, Lost Love, Dark, Life

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• All Or Nothing To Me

  I’m seeking a peace in this bleakness, or at least release from this chasing what cannot be caught. What havoc was wreaked I can’t speak, h

  by Black JaPanther 35 lines, 53 comments, on Oct 30 6:50 AM 2006. In Sad, Love, Angst

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• For a Lack of Words

  by UrbaN PlaguE 28 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 25 5:34 PM 2007

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Senses

  Scream and utter the echo of the past tense
  As your hearing forgot the effects of absinthe

  by Georges 36 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 10 6:52 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Dark, Hope

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• This is Just to Say

  This is just to say
  I miss you

  by WithinYourEyes 46 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 5:26 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Family

  • Commented on by judge.
• [ Unrequited love, ]

  Unrequited love,
  most excruciating pain

  by crazymomma 15 lines, 32 comments, on Dec 12 9:47 AM 2007. In Personal., Pain

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Did You Love Me Once?

  Did you love me once? Maybe for a minute?

  by Alittle2lost 142 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 3 8:03 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Personal, Contest, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• we need eachother

  I used to think you had the warmest hugs
  the sweetest kiss

  by EmoAngel14 54 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 26 4:47 PM 2008. In Personal, Thoughts, Life, Sad, Pain, Other, Sadness, Longing, My life, My own style

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Masquerade

  I didn't notice the
  blood dripping

  by xXcrimsontearsXx 28 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 28 3:09 PM 2008. In Dark, Hope, Pain, Personal

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• unabiding

  by tigress3737 18 lines, 3 comments, on May 28 12:06 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Ghost of You

  by dstreetpoet 30 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 15 9:56 PM 2008. In Lyrics, Dark, Fantasy, Sad, Unrequited Love, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• If I Were Beautiful

  They tell me that I'm beautiful

  by taintedsunshine 58 lines, 24 comments, on May 8 8:12 PM 2008. In Angst, Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Sad, Lost love, Depressed, Self

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• You Killed Me

  by hardeepb 75 lines, 36 comments, on Jun 14 7:50 PM 2008. In Lost love, Depression, Sadness, Pain, Dark, Death

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• Jaundiced Account

  The years pass by and I must say we've fallen out of touch Grown apart more than we'd ever let on

  by Seafooddynamite 23 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 6 11:13 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Loved and Lost

  I know what it is to have loved and lost To have loved too much and paid the cost

  by demoninfluenced 9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 26 11:12 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• ventilate.

  i.
  the ventilator must be broken [again]

  by Brit-Girl 30 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 2 1:55 PM 2008. In Love, Lost love, Dark, Life, Personal, Sad, Pain, Contemporary

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Sight

  I awake in silent darkness
  Breathless from blackened nightmares,

  by hisxlastxregret 22 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 8:45 PM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Personal, Pain, Heartbreak

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• gypsy zombie

  i was tempted by a lone star
  glittering in the southern sky

  by malkinpuss 25 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 12 4:12 PM 2008. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Society, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Curse for a Broken Heart

  As a poweful love dies, / So begins a curse. / The heart shatters like broken glass, / As shards of searing pain are shot into the soul. /

  by Hourglass Existence 10 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 15 3:49 AM 2007. In Love, Other, Pain, Personal, Sad, My life, Longing, Depressed

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Go Away

  The world outside, I don't want to be a part of.

  by RanaeS 7 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 3 2:50 AM 2008. In Other

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• A Story of Love That Unexpectedly Broke

  Walking down the sidewalk Late at night

  by DarkLotus4Life. 53 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 26 8:19 PM 2008. In Love, Emo, Pain, Lost love, Sad, Dark

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Come Back To Me

  Come Back To Me
  Let me be the one to call upon you

  by DarkTears 21 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 1 3:11 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Crushed Love

  A date that turned out to be a ONE NIGHT STAND.

  by The FaeQueen 15 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 25 10:50 AM 2008. In pain, love, sad, dark

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Broken Will

  My beating heart is useless now, I have no immunity, no will

  by AVariableGuilt 30 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 5 7:56 AM 2007

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• No Getting Over You

  No tears I am crying
  Yet still I wear no smile

  by Eternal Cascade 23 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 9 8:03 AM 2006. In Personal, Love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Buying a whore

  by scenescene 35 lines, 22 comments, on Apr 10 1:13 AM 2008. In Contest, Contemporary, Society, Humor

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Coming To You

  Your death consumed me,
  no thoughts but you.

  by WillAlwaysLove 23 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 6 10:11 AM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Pain, Dark, Love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• As Long As You Hold My Heart

  by Midnight Rose 11 31 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 16 9:47 AM 2008. In Angst, Love, Pain, Personal

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• I Don't Even Know It's Happening

  Kicking and screaming with tears in my eyes
  I try to run and I try to hide

  by Nostalgic Moon 38 lines, 26 comments, on Aug 5 9:04 PM 2008. In Pain, Fear

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Falling Leaves

  She saw him in the light of the moon, But he saw her at the break of dawn.

  by BrokenSanity 29 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 27 10:31 AM 2008. In Weird, Love, Fantasy, Life

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Missing the Memory of You

  by after-silence 29 lines, 28 comments, on Aug 5 11:56 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Confusion

  Confused...
  Don't know what to do...

  by TwoFacedPsycho 48 lines, 2 comments, on May 7 4:45 PM 2008. In love, angst, other

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• She Loves Me Not

  Today I pulled out a weed
  that grew tenaciously through a crack

  by arafura 26 lines, 41 comments, on May 18 1:37 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Other, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• I never said forever...x

  And I never promised you
  Id’ be yours forever

  by fake-or-real-smile 24 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 7 4:05 AM 2008

  • Commented on by judge.
• ALL the EMOTIONS that she had FORCED back (FINALLY surfaced)

  her thigh felt like it was on fire.
  The throbbing drowned out the beat of her heart

  by Candy Morphine 59 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 25 6:58 PM 2008. In Pain, Sad, Dark, Angst, Emo, Depression, Longing, Suicide

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• romance is but a bitter bullet

  by lowercase prelude 20 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 6 3:27 PM 2008

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• Dangerous Seduction

  You say you’re dangerous
  And I try hard to stay away.

  by Pinkjodz 33 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 7 11:21 AM 2008. In Sad, Love, Thoughts, Escape, Goodbyes, Lost love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• I remember

  Whats broken inside of me,
  Can never be repaired,

  by crushed 88 lines, 21 comments, on Feb 12 3:23 PM 2006. In Sad, Love, Dark

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Goodbye?

  A trickle of saltwater
  A kiss goodbye

  by TWiSTEDxCUPCAKE 34 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 7 7:31 PM 2008. In Love, contemporary, pain, personal, sad, thoughts, weird.

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Really Dead?

  by Deepredvelvet 30 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 7 7:45 PM 2008. In Sad, Life, Death

  • Commented on by judge.
• Tears Roll Down

  i wasn't to know that rainy morn
  that this would be our last

  by solitarytear 43 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 8:41 AM 2008. In Love, Life, Sad, Pain, Death, Sadness, Lost love, Dedication, Loss, Goodbyes

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The shooting of the innocent

  My hands are sweaty and clammy as we turn in to the street
  I am handed the machine gun and told to load and wait

  by Yorkshire Rose 30 lines, 21 comments, on Jul 22 11:27 AM 2008. In Sad, guns, death

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• you like it

  You like the pain,
  you like the sorrow,

  by XxhotpinkxX 28 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 7 10:32 AM 2008. In Pain, Life

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Tomorrow never came

  Talking. It's what we do.

  by Ebil-Emu 26 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 24 6:28 PM 2008. In Hope, Love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Lie to me Again

  "Lie to me again" she whispered quietly
  into his ear.

  by juliex-exotic shine 34 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 17 2:07 AM 2007. In Pain, Sadness, Lost love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Not this time

  I grew redundant to embrace her
  As my soul fibids this heart wants

  by Dajuan 18 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 25 9:03 PM 2008. In Pain, Thoughts, Contemporary

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• Ruthless Arrows

  A ruthless word you uttered,
  My self-esteem was shattered,

  by Nermin Nazim 19 lines, 27 comments, on May 21 11:20 PM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Angst

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• If Only I Had Known

  If only I had known that last night
  Was to be our last

  by trekkergirl 24 lines, 8 comments, on May 25 3:45 PM 2008. In Pain, Sad, Personal, Dark, Contest, Angst, Life, Love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Passing Ships

  I like your voice, but not your words;
  Your eyes - no doubt - hold something more

  by Frodofan 17 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 14 11:02 AM 2008. In love, sad, personal, observation, people, feelings, thoughts, life

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• Un___

  please, don’t love me
  I am unlovable – I am

  by writetheway 27 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 12 6:18 PM 2008. In personal, thoughts

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• killing me slowly

  Becoming my own worst enemy
  Sleeping pill induced dreams, trying to lose myself

  by Lonely Christina 15 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 11 9:30 AM 2008. In Thoughts, Dark, Angst, Life, Pain, Depression, Sadness, My own style

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• Lament

  by Shadowsong 42 lines, 6 comments, on May 22 10:44 PM 2006. In Sad

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• Ashamed

  Burning the candle at both ends
  lights a beacon for bleak disappointment;

  by Gratitude 6 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 16 8:25 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Anger, Sad, Pain, Personal, Failure, Life, Other

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• What did you expect?

  You tried to brake me You used me and the love I had for you

  by TeenageTears 24 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 19 8:18 PM 2008

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• Save me from my suicide

  Your smile erased the sanity in me,
  no memory of it even existing.
  I feel as though Im dying in a world revolved around you,

  by xxSerendipityxx 32 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 17 5:24 PM 2008. In Contest, Dark, Life, Love, Pain, Sad

  • Commented on by judge.
• In with the new

  going through a rough breakup!

  by LovesPlayToy 27 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 16 12:57 PM 2008. In Sad, Personal, Pain, Thoughts, Dark

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• There Is Another

  It kills me to look into your eyes They accuse me of having no devotion

  by YellowFury 18 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 19 11:23 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite

Comments

• By me, right now

  Adding your comment:
• demoninfluenced
  August 5, 2008
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  I too have had a hard breakup pretty recently. Two years, and then she leaves. Anyways, good luck with the contest and I will join!
• 
  Immortal Obscurity
  August 31, 2008
  Edit | Reply
  thank you so much for the gold congrats to all the winners
• 
  Pandorea
  August 31, 2008
  Edit | Reply
  thanks for the HM

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