You can't turn back, because this road is all you'll ever have.

Contest is Over

• Contest was judged on August 27
• Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 150, Bronze: 75, Honorable mention: 5 people
• Final notes:
  This was an amazing contest, I had such a variety to choose from and that made it even better. This was a great experience for me and I did get to find new favorites Thank you ALL for entering and I'm sorry it took some time for me to finish up the judging. I wish I could give you all trophies ♥

Contest Winners

1. Opium Lungs

   by whiterabbit. 19 lines, 43 comments, on May 3 9:15 AM. In Noguest
   Gold trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
2. Paris

   by Dreamer With Dreams 10 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 6 10:59 PM. In sad, love
   Silver trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
3. Silt and sun and vertigo.

   I am a weightless Jupiter; becoming photosynthetic by your supernovas alone. I slowly seep like ivy oil-slick to the highest points of your

   by eating vertigo 40 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 31 2:43 PM
   Bronze trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
4. Rainbows' End

   by MysteriousStrangerX 28 lines, 32 comments, on Apr 20 5:12 AM. In Weird
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
5. Tucking Love Notes Into Pockets

   You mailed me your love inside canary tanned paper with doodled hearts. And I struggled to open it without bringing harm to sheets of affec

   by PaperWingsCrumple 4 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 28 6:12 PM. In Personal, Spiritual, Thoughts, Love
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
6. I don't want to lose you.

   I'll rip my heart out and hand it to you,
   if it would show how much I care.

   by Antebellum 21 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 23 5:29 PM. In noguest, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Life, Love
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
7. Porcelain Princess

   I saw you the other day,
   and I hated you..

   by msjuicytech 52 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 30 1:25 PM. In Angst, Sad, Society, Race Matters, Race, Contest
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
8. three degrees below freezing

   dear cardboard feathers,
   

   by Writing0Freedom 15 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 5 1:47 PM
   Honorable mention

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
9. Phenomenon

   Dear boy with wheels for fingers,
   

   by Writing0Freedom 27 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 8 12:39 AM

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
10. Tarnishing Eyes While Wishing I was Blind

    My stigmatism ensures I will always have a disfigured perception of what we all label reality. Contacts were the fix to my delima, I wanted

    by PaperWingsCrumple 4 lines, 21 comments, on Jul 17 12:08 AM. In Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
11. Ode to Common Cup Coffee House

    Oh Common Cup, How I love thee,
    You keep me content and caffeinated,

    by ArtistTouch 19 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 6 2:04 AM. In Life, Thoughts

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
12. Things I Know and Oprah Doesn't

    Kinda mushy, but I like it

    by Lamia 41 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 7 11:42 PM 2006. In Personal, Humor

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
13. Kestrel Feathers (In The Body's Left Hand)

    hard-bitten shot in the back
    crackling dwindling down along the stairwell

    by intoothandclaw 20 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 26 3:41 AM. In Society, Abstract, Personal, Thoughts, Life, Dark

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
14. Apricot Cologne

    My experiences working in an Alzheimers ward in a nursing home.

    by MysteriousStrangerX 53 lines, 64 comments, on Nov 25 2:11 AM 2008. In Life, Other, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
15. The Closet

    Some people cope in very strange ways...

    by MysteriousStrangerX 41 lines, 52 comments, on Nov 14 12:15 AM 2008. In Dark, Pain, Personal, Sad, Abuse

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
16. Counter-clock lies; from the meth addict in me.

    You scraped the shards from my lips like a methamphetamine addict.
    I scraped your insides dry and found lies, paradoxes and parasites

    by eating vertigo 26 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 9 1:47 AM

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
17. “I’m just a phone call away,” you said.

    I wonder sometimes at how many breaths it takes you to forget me.

    by Candy Morphine 162 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 4 5:01 AM

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
18. Hide and Seek

    by Pisces Pieces 24 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 21 10:30 PM 2007

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
19. Last Night's Moment

    by MysteriousWhisper 25 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 1 7:57 AM

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
20. Dear love,

    You know the day your dreams died, our fire did. Things will never be the same.
    Our past is over, the present isn't working, and the futu

    by Tzipora 10 lines, 17 comments, on May 3 9:18 PM. In life, love

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
21. river melt -

    by amaranthine lover 33 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 26 3:09 PM. In Contest, Abstract, noguest

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
22. We were so close.

    Our fingers linked,
    we lay together on soft grass,

    by superl337sauce 67 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 16 10:22 PM

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
23. what i felt today.

    when every day becomes a dream
    and every night a nightmare,

    by i-L0v3-hiM- 27 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 18 1:36 PM. In Angst, Sad, Love, Life

    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

Entries [83]

• I'll never know me.

  I am a walking contridiction, an accident waiting to happen. My life
  to me is nothing more than a wild oxymoron, but thats me- a

  by Antebellum 34 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 6 12:05 AM. In Contest, noguest

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• We Prayed for Rain We Got Color Spectrums and Hail (WIP)

  Rain fell from the sky today, a first in months, I had become so accustomed to rain shooting from sprinkler heads burried in the soil by co

  by PaperWingsCrumple 11 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 20 2:18 AM. In Personal, Society, Thoughts, Spiritual, Life, Hope, Nature, Other, Pain

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Chris.

  by Antebellum 14 lines, 18 comments, on Jul 27 1:13 AM. In noguest, love, letter, Personal, Life, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• I Found You in the Beer of the Runaway Poet

  I reclined in wicker chair absorbing what fellow poets felt they needed to shave from their life experiences, while a woman fashened togeth

  by PaperWingsCrumple 4 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 27 3:12 AM. In Thoughts, Personal, Other

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words, Right?

  by PaperWingsCrumple 14 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 4 4:27 AM. In Personal, Love, Pain, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Liz a Lullaby for You

  LIZ A LULLABY FOR YOU
  Hush my little one

  by wander of the sky 73 lines, 19 comments, on Aug 5 9:02 PM. In Love, Lyrics, Contemporary, Personal, Children

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• I miss you

  3 years 3 months and 22 days.
  I don't want this to be a waste.

  by Antebellum 27 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 23 5:51 PM. In Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Life, Love, Other

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Stop fighting yourself

  On this chilly morning
  The wind echoing like a howling wolf..

  by Zia- 29 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 17 8:54 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Kaptain Kronos new adventure ...Enter at own risk

  To start engine pull chain

  by Antipodi 8 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 31 6:47 PM. In Contemporary, Fantasy, Humor, Society, Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Prince House

  Just another emotional poem.

  by Lamia 16 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 18 3:18 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Levin (Holy Lightning)

  blessed hush falls
  across the xanthic bones of the earth

  by intoothandclaw 19 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 26 6:38 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Mother's Love

  Funny how one feels abandoned, isn't it?

  by MysteriousStrangerX 35 lines, 25 comments, on Aug 6 9:40 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Picture Perfect

  To those who suffer from anorexia or bulimia...this one's for you .

  by MysteriousStrangerX 30 lines, 30 comments, on May 3 5:53 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Tempera

  reverberations of sound
  long razed by sandstorms

  by eating vertigo 27 lines, 5 comments, on May 11 12:58 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Strawberry marks crushing silt.

  credit abecedarian workshop, & quote by yousless.
  

  by eating vertigo 31 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 12 9:47 AM. In Hope, Love, Pain, Sad, Dark, Thoughts, Spiritual, Wind, Silt, Oil, Veins

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• break the sky.

  'sometimes i don't want to be the only one crying.'
  

  by swim.x 116 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 11 8:26 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Worn raw by life.

  truth is i feel dizzy and sick without you.

  by eating vertigo 20 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 1 4:19 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Road

  we've been together now for a time
  through bits; a few hard and a few free

  by lifescholar 25 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 5 6:35 AM. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Life, Love, Contemporary, Hope, Sad

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• detritus

  soon Alexandra began to subsist on arsenic and disquiet.

  by Candy Morphine 180 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 1 3:15 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Black Holes and Nebulas

  by VelvetWings 14 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 1 10:47 PM. In Adult

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Lost

  by Pisces Pieces 40 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 4 10:37 PM 2007. In Dark, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Fake Me A Better Love

  One of my greatest lovers
  that surrounds me with so much

  by MysteriousWhisper 43 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 6 2:41 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Temptation, Desire

  I know its long but once you start reading it it flows very fast because the lines are so short so please go ahead

  by MysteriousWhisper 108 lines, 27 comments, on May 6 11:09 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Only Bird

  Birds are narcissists
  Their song is beautiful

  by MysteriousWhisper 8 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 16 12:56 AM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Not for a moment

  You are my missing link,
  my kingdom come.
  Better than any fantasy,

  by msjuicytech 51 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 16 1:21 PM. In Love, hope, black love

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Cosmic Lover

  by msjuicytech 53 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 4 3:16 PM. In contest, fantasy, other, erotica, thoughts, Adult

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Soft & sinful

  by msjuicytech 32 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 31 9:18 AM. In Erotica, Love, lust, Black Love, Fantasy

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• From this Pen

  From this pen..
  flows my heart,liquid

  by msjuicytech 34 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 28 8:20 AM. In Love, Black Love, Passion

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• arresting nightmare

  by amaranthine lover 28 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 27 8:41 PM. In Contest, Abstract, noguest

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• c a l i g i n o s i t y

  by amaranthine lover 36 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 26 2:02 PM. In Contest, Abstract, noguest

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• h a l o -

  by amaranthine lover 32 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 26 1:47 PM. In Contest, Abstract, noguest

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Arlington -

  by amaranthine lover 40 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 25 11:30 PM. In Contest, Abstract, noguest

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Remember me.

  As I fall, I'll silently scream.
  Oh how I hope, you'll remember me.

  by If.Evil.Exists 48 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 5 12:38 PM. In sad, pain, hope

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• For better or for worse, yeah, ok?

  For better, for worse
  For richer, for poorer

  by Blue-Rose Beauty 27 lines, 43 comments, on May 19 5:56 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• A Gasp for Innocence

  Let your innocence breathe
  'cause you're smothering it.

  by superl337sauce 9 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 22 9:46 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Festering Cherries

  Clusters of cherries dripped juice like blood, like blood.
  I slurped up gleefully every drop that I could.

  by superl337sauce 31 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 20 4:32 AM. In Lyrics

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Rancid Rebirth

  There's acid scurrying down my throat.
  Bubbles of flesh float out my mouth

  by superl337sauce 37 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 26 5:28 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Faceless Composer

  the unsung song,
  the unplayed melody,

  by superl337sauce 30 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 8 11:10 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• A slave

  From the blood thirsty land of kush
  The fighting field of lust

  by isaacokumu 33 lines, 21 comments, on Aug 6 4:30 AM. In Dark, Sad, Angst

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Was It A Mistake? {N}

  standing at that fork in the road
  not knowing which way to go

  by fantome errant 24 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 7 8:20 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• June Again

  after [we sparked our memories with late night] bonfires,
  and [conversations] that didn’t flicker out till dawn....

  by Not-The-Sun 33 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 29 2:31 AM. In Personal, Thoughts, Sad

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Porcelain Doll on a Shelf

  And that thick layer of goldilocks curls
  Prevents anyone from feeling sympathy towards her.

  by Not-The-Sun 21 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 20 11:43 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Provocative Flower

  The Traveler:
  After seeing nothing but wilderness

  by Not-The-Sun 49 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 5 11:06 PM 2008. In Personal, Weird, Life

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Image

  Dawn broke early that day
  a scintillating yellow orb

  by IntimidusRex 137 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 7 11:11 AM. In Lost in thought, Hope, Nature

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Land

  The transcendence of the sun over these dusty buttes
  form daylight to dusk transmogrifies the mind and

  by IntimidusRex 49 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 9 11:44 AM. In Contest, Nature, Other, Freewrite

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• If I wasn't busy, I'd need a letter opener

  by Writing0Freedom 51 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 3:26 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Heart Lying On A River

  Running from my feelings.
  

  by jenny0100ukuk 21 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 29 6:01 PM. In Sad, Pain, Angst, Hope, Love, Thoughts

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Warm Watery Lake, by the sun.

  A million thoughts go by.
  With you, hung, in every one.

  by jenny0100ukuk 27 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 29 9:19 PM. In Personal, Sad, Pain, Love, Life, Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Safe

  here is the place where my fears come out,
  my feelings show,
  

  by i-L0v3-hiM- 25 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 19 9:03 AM. In Angst, Life, Personal, Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Aftermath of a not so Tragic Life

  Harboring pointless dreams that manifest themselves in the night,
  I wait patiently for sleep to uncover my eyes and show me what things may come.

  by i-L0v3-hiM- 6 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 17 2:31 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Numb

  by i-L0v3-hiM- 32 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 19 9:19 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Life, Other, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Tired

  I am tired
  tired of hiding

  by i-L0v3-hiM- 21 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 18 2:08 PM. In Angst, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Sad, Thoughts, Weird

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Unfaithful Goodbye

  by mackereth 15 lines, 29 comments, on Aug 31 12:34 AM 2007. In Love, Pain, Sad

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite

Comments

• By me, right now

  Adding your comment:
• 
  whiterabbit.
  August 27
  Edit | Reply
  aw, wow. thank you so so much for gold!
  
  ♥ ♥ ♥
• • 
    PaintedParisPassion
    August 27
    Edit | Reply
    You deserved it!!!
  • • whiterabbit.
      August 27
      Edit | Reply
      
      ♥
• 
  Not-The-Sun
  August 27
  Edit | Reply
  Thanks for actually commenting on all the entries; that takes a lot of time so I appreciate it

Contest

• Add feature
• Add bookmark
• Hide background
• Email this contest to a friend

Sign up for FREE

A free account is required to comment and participate. It's fast and free!

Already a member?

About Allpoetry

Please Support Allpoetry