OK This is my first contest and i'm very excited about it
I really like dark poetry so I'm asking for your basic sad,pain,cutting,suicide,destruction poems
I can never get enough of it so give me all your sorrows
enter as many times as you like!
Things I like to see
-Rhyme
-Rhythm
and meaning
I like a good flow!
prewrites are allowed
Rules
1. no sticky caps
2. You must comment one
of my poems and
(I will comment all entries)
3. must be original
4. keep curse words to a minimum
and That is all!
I really like dark poetry so I'm asking for your basic sad,pain,cutting,suicide,destruction poems
I can never get enough of it so give me all your sorrows
enter as many times as you like!
Things I like to see
-Rhyme
-Rhythm
and meaning
I like a good flow!
prewrites are allowed
Rules
1. no sticky caps
2. You must comment one
of my poems and
(I will comment all entries)
3. must be original
4. keep curse words to a minimum
and That is all!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on July 31, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 50, Bronze: 10
- Final notes: Ok so this contest was insane so many entries my head was screaming and my hands acking but i managed to read all of your amazing work I must say i was quite amazed by some of the things that were put together here unfornatly i wasn't able to comment every poem because it was much to difficult I want to thank you all for your comments and support on my poetry it really meant alot to me so thank you all very much and congrats to my winners!
Contest Winners
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Is life strife rife where favoured few waste privileges rare, compared to most who struggle through misfortunes most unfair ?
by Jonathan ROBIN 52 lines, 605 comments, on Mar 17 5:35 AM 2005. In Sad, Society, Life, Thoughts, Pain, Dark, Depression, Sadness, Depressed, Suicide
Silver trophy winner
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For everything you did to me, karma will come and eat you. / Through me, karma will work, and you will get what everyone gets from me. / Li• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Purple faces at the funfair!
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I found a gun
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Left Right Yo' Right Left / The constant call of the daily dull.... / Marching here and there, never knowing where.... / With a blank and empty stare, but inside he fells someone there.... / The seargent shout• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Walking threw the air of the night, felling winters bite.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I look in the mirror and i see / A person who is not me / A person in pain / A person who is scared / I look in the mirror and i see.. / A person who knows You don't love me. / When did life consume me? /• Viewed by judge.
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In the evening / In my room by myself / Thinking what would happen / what wouldn't happen if i took hold / of the blade, the sharpness / an• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I don't need the pain anymore...
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Around your neck it sits / Choking you be for you jump / Losing sight of everything / Falling forward, to death / Tension in the rope / Falby Drummerfreak909 10 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 14 8:54 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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You strike me
I swallow my prideby Honorable Sin 49 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 3 11:55 PM 2004. In Abuse• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Cold steal runs through my veins
Anger I have bottled up insideby Honorable Sin 29 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 7 10:40 PM 2004. In Other• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
About a person who I thought was like a brother to me...who turned his back on meby Honorable Sin 19 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 5 2:38 PM 2004. In Sad• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I need to quit you. / Withdraw you from this heart, / Empty you from this mind. / I swore it would never be the case, / But your happily evby denrob 18 lines, on Jul 23 1:03 AM 2007. In unrequited love• Viewed by judge.
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Drip drip drip drip
Like tears, yet red• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Bleeding
blood trickles down my wrist• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Raise my hope / Give me cofidence / Make me proud of me / Whispering Lies in my ears / Build me up / upon Delicate lies / Slowly [killing]by Dark Whispers 23 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 5:51 AM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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Maybe tonight will be our last
Maybe this is our only chance• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Do you see the tears that fall / The ones that appear as rain / From the clouds around your mind / Blinded from the truth / Darkness is more clear than daylight / In the clouds around your mind / There'sby DavidCater 27 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 6:42 AM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Life, Hope, Pain, Thoughts, Self• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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i hate the way life treats me / im all twisted up inside / the sour feeling runs up my spine / by the razors law i will abide / it lay across the room / in its unforgotten home / and tonight a sweet su• Viewed by judge.
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The blade slides slowly, / Slowly across my wrist, / The blood flowing, / Flowing like a river, / And, as I close my eyes, / For the last time, / I know that I was, / WORTHLESS.by xXEndless-PainXx 7 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 11 2:35 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Whipped and beaten, torn and broken,
On the rocks shrieked loud its voice,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
careless destruction of self and others.by nickiwickiwack 17 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 13 12:55 PM 2007. In Dark• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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As i seem to slowly commit to seen memories, / I think about repercussion's dealt from enemies, / I distanced my evasive mind so NONE know its potential, / Once you commit to memory, eventful knowledge is essential,by Words Undeniable 17 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 1:57 PM 2007. In Dark• Viewed by judge.
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I wish I were dead / All the truths unsaid / Don't care about me / Look away but wonder why I bleed / They wonder why I scream at night / Lby Lost Night Shadow 38 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 11 10:05 AM 2007. In Dark, Pain, Death, kinda "Emo", Suicide
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I needed him, I needed him to notice me• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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WITH NOTHING TO OFFER / TO THE WORLD / THE WORLD HAS NOTHING / FOR ME / NO MATTER HOW MUCH I TRY / OR SCREAM AND PLEAD / AND CRY / I CAN OFFER NOTHING / TO THE WORLD• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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As she sits there, / She wonder's, / should I? / Or Shouldn't I? / Theres so much I have yet to experiance, / But then again, / I wouldn'tby Andii 44 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 25 11:56 AM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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stars knock on my door
highlights of the night• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I wasn't strong enough
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The mirror shows no shadow
my pain is stained on the walls• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Shattered bodies / All around / Taken by / The enemy / Pushing through / Fighting back / The battle ends tonight / Through the ashes / Victory fades away / Into the crimson sky / As I become / One of theby lovely elizabeth 12 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 5:08 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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The flames of Hell, the light of Heaven. Either one has something to give. No matter how good, no matter how bad, we all have a life to live. /by icecold661 1 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 5:21 PM 2007. In Hope• Viewed by judge.
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Please. / Don’t Leave / I need you / Did you think I was ignorant? / I am far from it / I have watched you / I have known for so long now / I have known everything / You thought you could escape / The dark wby Quotidian Detritus 53 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 11 2:27 PM 2007. In Pain, Dark, Hate, Love Lost, Death• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Silence creeps beneath the moonlight / Keeping all in evil’s shadow / When you turn it grips your throat / And your face goes sick and sallow / Your eyes are shot with blood and then / You hear the angels singing soby Quotidian Detritus 50 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 4:39 PM 2007. In Dark, Love, Pain, Death, Solitude• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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My lips quiver under the pressure of a barrel / I look down deep, deep, down. / There waiting for me is a angry bullet, / Watching, watchin• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I’m scared out of my mind,
I’m running out of time.• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Her cuts have faded
But her wounds never will• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
No one in sight
She takes out the knife• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
exploring light it was
flying around it• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
She holds me in her trembling hand, / I will touch her skin as I did before. / And I hate myself for causing her pain. / Or is it relief I bring, I'm no longer sure. / But when the hot blood flows, like the redd• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I traveled with Dorothy down that yellow brick road / me in that stinky old basket as ever onward she strode / Those ruby red slippers that• Viewed by judge.
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The razor sharp knife held in my hand
Shaking and trembling I don t understand.by trace3grls 34 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 29 4:05 AM 2006. In Dark• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
the blade so sharp
the cut so deepby lovejunkie 3 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 20 10:02 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Her eyes are blue like april rain.
brby SheCallsMeBaby 9 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 29 4:30 PM 2006. In Dark, Depressing, Cutting, Hurt, Pain, Blood, Suicide• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
I wake up and think about the day before. / Just another yesterday. / I don’t want to get up and start the day. / I roll over and go back to sleep. / I repeat until I can’t sleep and just lie there. / My head fby SheCallsMeBaby 54 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 18 9:18 PM 2007. In sad, depressed, suicide, life, personal, pain, thoughts• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I'm looking through the looking glass, / And what stares back at me? / Not me but another little girl, / Smiling happily. / I lift up my riby SheCallsMeBaby 35 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 14 2:29 PM 2007. In regret, loss, lost friendship, sad• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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The glass slides so smoothly across the tan skin,
your parents warned you about doing it again but what ever,• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Watch the red hit the floor
not worrying about the stain at the• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Drunken with the metalic taste
Her life seen obsolete• Viewed by judge. Prewrite -
Can you feel me siting hear? / can you see me crying and waiting? / do you hear me? / when i scream you're name? / I wont you home! / I wonby bar room stool 33 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 22 11:25 PM 2007. In Abuse, Sad, Personal, Pain, Other, Hope, Dark, Thoughts, Family, Angry• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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When I look to you / I dont see hope / I don't see love / And I just can't cope / When I look in your eyes / I can only see pain / I can tell it's / driving you insane / What happen to my friend• Viewed by judge.
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Why do i sit here and think about you day and night. / Why do we sit here and say i love you when we really dont. / Why i sit here in pain, Playin Myself. / Life was not promised to me, / So why is it so hard for me tby MzDimeDivia 24 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 8 8:19 PM 2007. In Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Hope, Thoughts, Dark• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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As I bring forth the blade, my breath held, / As against the grain, the shimmer fell. / Droplets of red combines with that of salty tears, / A dark puddle forms, each drop revealing each fear. / Promises of th• Viewed by judge.
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A calming addiction to help me ease / easing away at the sharpest tease / A slit or two to calm my nerves / An addiction that I dont deservby NickelleteXninja 22 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 16 3:18 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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Tensions building up inside / What is left but to say goodbye / Nothing more that I could use / To keep my life from this noose / I tightenby NickelleteXninja 26 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 2 10:44 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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no body knows, no body cares, that she slits her wrists and blood poisons the air.she picks up the blade with a tear in her eye, she feels unloved and that sheby Cold Paraniod Eyes 56 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 26 3:25 PM 2006. In Dark• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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sharing scars, sharing lies / lying about whats not wrong / how were so dead inside / all our problems become one / secrets are no longer /• Viewed by judge.
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My beautiful addiction,
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by My Darkness 15 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 3 7:44 PM 2007. In Personal• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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I Cry For You / I cry for you, / with all my might, / I cry for you, / and hold you tight, / I cry for you, / little child from above, / I cry for you, / because I know no other way to love, / I cry forby dreamersalwayslive 37 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 3:31 PM 2007• Viewed by judge. Prewrite
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i would love to win a contest but this isnt my style sorry!!!!!!!=(
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Can we enter more than one poem?
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Yes enter as many as you like
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Wow!!!! 158 entries!!!! That;s alot especially for a first contest!!!! I honestly do not envy you having to judge this! Good luck!!!!
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Actually now it's 180 and i'm freaking out holy shit but I'll do it
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i have one called scars
hey my poem scars would match in this catagory perfectly -
Hey, I love dark poetry, It makes you think, but I like having some uplifting poetry, just so i don't stay down
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who won???
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Thanks
wow, out of all these entries and I ranked fourth? thats awesome. I'm so glad you liked my piece. Maybe I didn't get a trophy or honorable mention, but knowing how many entries there were and that I placed in the top 6 is pretty amazing. Thank you so much!
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Holy Crap - I can't believe you actually managed to read all the poems to judge this. Congradulations. I think YOU deserve a trophy for that!
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