Do you have a poem that is just brimming with emotion? Can you make me feel something besides this numb contentment with your words? If so then enter it here, please.
Rules:
1) No erotica, I don’t want to read it.
2) Categorize appropriately.
3) Make sure I can read it, no horrible background text combinations.
4) Length and alignment are up to you.
5) Any poetry format is fine.
Points will go up!
Three entries per person but please don’t enter three poems on the same subject.
Pre-writes are welcome.
Have fun!
Rules:
1) No erotica, I don’t want to read it.
2) Categorize appropriately.
3) Make sure I can read it, no horrible background text combinations.
4) Length and alignment are up to you.
5) Any poetry format is fine.
Points will go up!
Three entries per person but please don’t enter three poems on the same subject.
Pre-writes are welcome.
Have fun!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on October 27
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50
- Final notes: Sorry it took me so long to judge this, things once more have become hectic (nothing new). Thank you all for joining and congradulations to the winner, you deserved it. HMs are in no order.
Contest Winners
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The day you brought the gun home
The day the kids were scaredby XxYoru-OkamixX 26 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 31 1:55 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Silver trophy winner
Entries [182]
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Mother’s kiss
God’s blissby Kiddy 19 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 29 7:44 AM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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How dare you swagger in my life, upset my perfect world. How dare you be the one for me, and belong to another girlby AlittleWrong 326 lines, 63 comments, on Oct 29 10:44 PM 2008. In Love, Pain, The Other Woman, Cheating, Personal, Angst, Lost love, Angry• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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You were always too selfish
to be the perfect mother you envisaged.by Zeprina-Jaz 19 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 16 12:56 PM 2008. In Angst, Pain, Personal, Family Relationships• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Friendship comes at a price,
Secrets cannot always be said,by Kittywaver 29 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 23 2:51 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Little angels in the sky
I am crying my sad tears• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
that I can really take
everyday is such a mistake• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
last night i cried
for all the things that could have been• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But your lies will cease to hurt me• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I fear he may be dead,
To the lack of air to his head."• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I take her soft hand in mine.
Her face is one that I once knew, but I cannot remember.by Brittaney73 11 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 9 11:04 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
No matter what I do, it's never enough
I say I'm sorry, but it's meaningless and stupidby XxLoverOfDarknessxX 23 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 17 6:03 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Unrelated circumstances seem to crash and break
repelling obnoxious tirades with sweet scented figurines of• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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Something is wrong in your head
Who the hell are you to come into my life• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
In that moment, when you don't know...
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An abandoned swing,
as unpleasant as her memories,by BrittlesSkittles 48 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 25 10:01 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
When i look in the mirror,
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Well Autumn's here again old lad,
the leaves are turning gold.by Sunshine Always 43 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 30 1:13 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
My heart is heavy
It is filled with so much sorrow and fears• Commented on by judge. -
What would you do if I held your hand?
Would you hold mine back like a normal person would or would you be extraordinary and massage my ha• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Yesterday i had a dream
a dream that i was aloneby Xxnightmare21xx 26 lines, 23 comments, on Oct 7 6:57 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I agreed to meet you on the outskirts
of town, but i didn't think that iby Xxnightmare21xx 47 lines, 22 comments, on Dec 8 3:31 PM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
My husband as many of us do back nearly 7 years ago battles with his demons, his emotions, his thoughts, we have so many unsaved lost loved• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Around me people scream,
their voices pleading.by Emerald-Eyes 8 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 1 10:01 AM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
my thoughts roam around with blood and blades
morbid is it really?by RazorBlade94 16 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 23 1:52 PM. In Self-Injury• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
your words eat at me
like the burning of stomachby DeadlyPoetic88 9 lines, 18 comments, on Feb 19 10:53 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I scream,
A sound that shatters the heart,by Kittywaver 29 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 23 3:06 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
she walks though the night thinking,
wondering what to do,by xJustxAnotherxGirlx 32 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 8 9:36 AM 2008• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
why does she have to stay inside
when i love her soby offlimits 39 lines, on Jan 25 11:05 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Unspoken words hang in the air,
heavy and draped like these ragged curtainsby Lorenzo 33 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 29 1:49 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
He deeply breathes the air, and swears it is the same as that which came by breeze from where he sees the sunlight on the tops of trees.by Black JaPanther 6 lines, 38 comments, on Oct 4 9:54 AM 2006. In Fantasy, Spiritual, Nature, Sunlight, Trees, Driving, Travel, Tennessee, Mountains• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I’ve seen the world with these two eyes.
A movie played inside my mind.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
Please hold me closer and promise me this,"
She asked of him through dying lips.by AlittleWrong 44 lines, 65 comments, on Nov 24 6:58 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
the retarded baby
'neath cold and stainby kedoconnor 38 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 21 9:00 AM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
He seems to real,
to nice for my life.by Dead-dreams 13 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 2 2:22 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Burning desire goes
through me whenby XxLoverOfDarknessxX 42 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 20 4:49 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I miss you....my life is in shambles
by XxLoverOfDarknessxX 7 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 16 6:58 PM• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
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fluorescent lights reflect her own face in the window
[Jim's Diner stenciled on the glass, contemplating the lines around her eyes]by kill the lights 14 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 25 3:25 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
I bow my head deep.....by hotchocolate 23 lines, 23 comments, on Dec 1 4:45 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Life, My own style, Lost in thought, Escape
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You have died and are now resting in a bedby trytothink 74 lines, 34 comments, on Apr 26 12:36 PM 2007. In Death, Pain, Friendship, Personal., Loss, Suicide• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Verse1: Not unlike the cries of men, my heart, my love, my dreams lament. Condemned by worldly being our love will mold to our skin purging• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by lexie like woah 24 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 1 12:48 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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To Mommy:
Just barely a babyby AlittleWrong 74 lines, 12 comments, on Jan 18 3:10 PM• Commented on by judge. Prewrite -
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One of the ones I entered...I Remember Way Back When...it's easily my most emotional poem, especially considering I was crying so hard when wrote it that I could hardly see the keys. But it's, well, extremely LONG, just so you know. I men I won't be offended if you choose not to read all of it.
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Thank you so much for gold
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