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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!

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

  1. Error: Unable to find finalist item 2107189, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  2. 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
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. Error: Unable to find finalist item 2851730, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  4. Power in Pain...fears expressed and pain revealed.
    by Twilight4Eternity 40 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 21 10:46 PM 2007. In Dark, Personal, Thoughts, Sad
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. 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
    by MistressAkasha 50 lines, 6 comments, on May 21 2:38 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Pain
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  6. Your words are the root of the problem,
    The root of diversity in stability I've cherished for so long.
    by Vashman 47 lines, 12 comments, on Feb 10 6:17 AM 2006. In Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

Entries [154]

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  • Purple faces at the funfair!
    Broken hearts do not repair!
    by Georges 30 lines, 53 comments, on Nov 5 7:40 PM 2004. In Spiritual, Dark, Hope
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  • by Georges 19 lines, 24 comments, on Mar 8 4:55 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Dark, Adult
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  • I found a gun
    loaded, black, and cold
    by mindless wolf 81 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 28 7:42 PM 2006. In Society, Other, Dark
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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
    by tomcat148 39 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 6 9:53 PM 2007. In Sad
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  • Walking threw the air of the night, felling winters bite.
    by tomcat148 32 lines, on May 11 7:17 PM 2006. In Sad
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  • 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? /
    by DarkEmptySoul13 29 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 22 8:58 PM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Sad, Dark
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  • Take these wings from me, cause there for something ill never be.....
    Rip them out, i promise i wont shout.....
    by tomcat148 17 lines, on May 16 10:06 PM 2006. In Sad
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • 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
    by Drummerfreak909 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 6 12:18 AM 2007. In Dark, Life, Death
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • I don't need the pain anymore...
    It's the process that comforts me
    by DarkSunRises 37 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 24 12:50 PM 2006. In Personal, Dark
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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 / Fal
    by Drummerfreak909 10 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 14 8:54 PM 2007
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  • Taking a life / Hard to do / Fun inspired / Taking the revolver / The cold hard stiff trigger / Brushing against my finger / Click… / The b
    by Drummerfreak909 21 lines, on Jul 10 12:16 AM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Sad, Spiritual, Life, Other, Hope, Dark
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • You strike me
    I swallow my pride
    by Honorable Sin 49 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 3 11:55 PM 2004. In Abuse
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  • Cold steal runs through my veins
    Anger I have bottled up inside
    by Honorable Sin 29 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 7 10:40 PM 2004. In Other
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  • About a person who I thought was like a brother to me...who turned his back on me
    by Honorable Sin 19 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 5 2:38 PM 2004. In Sad
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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 ev
    by denrob 18 lines, on Jul 23 1:03 AM 2007. In unrequited love
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  • Drip drip drip drip
    Like tears, yet red
    by DenyMyLove 19 lines, 18 comments, on Apr 7 4:51 PM 2006. In Personal, Dark, Angst
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • by DenyMyLove 26 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 18 11:01 PM 2007. In Personal, Love, Sad, Thoughts, Dark, Angst, Adult, Death, My life, Depression
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • This is based on an episode in my life, quite true, I used writing about it as a form of healing. Let me know what you think. I wrote this
    by Anno 58 lines, 15 comments, on Jan 28 3:41 AM 2007. In Abuse, Dark, Pain, Personal, Sad
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • Bleeding
    blood trickles down my wrist
    by gaiascully 30 lines, 21 comments, on Dec 24 11:06 PM 2003. In Personal, Dark
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  • 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.
  • Maybe tonight will be our last
    Maybe this is our only chance
    by loveyouhate 38 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 21 7:24 PM 2006. In Sad, Love, Dark
    • 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's
    by DavidCater 27 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 6:42 AM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Life, Hope, Pain, Thoughts, Self
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • by DevinCora 49 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 23 9:47 AM 2007. In Abuse, Adult, Dark, Erotica, Fantasy, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Emo
    • Viewed by judge.
  • 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
    by Koz 25 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 9:54 AM 2007. In Sad
    • Viewed by judge.
  • If I died,
    No-one would care,
    by xXEndless-PainXx 19 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 6 11:17 AM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Life, Dark, Depression, My life, Pain, Sadness, Depressed, Emo
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • 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
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  • Whipped and beaten, torn and broken,
    On the rocks shrieked loud its voice,
    by loveyouhate 35 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 22 2:34 PM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Abuse
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  • It's a typical cliche day, / Where i lay / Blood red tears fall onto a face numbed by emotion. / How could you have dont this to me? Given
    by DeathsUnholyAngel 40 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 27 7:27 AM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Pain, Sad, Emo, Life
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • by Thinking About It 25 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 30 6:00 PM 2005. In Dark, Abuse, Contest, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Sad, Weird
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • by DeathsUnholyAngel 19 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 30 4:06 AM 2007. In Angst, Life, Love, Pain, Sad, Personal, Thoughts, Loss, Personal., Depressed, Self
    • 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
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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
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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 / L
    by Lost Night Shadow 38 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 11 10:05 AM 2007. In Dark, Pain, Death, kinda "Emo", Suicide
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • This is the sound T.V told you about,
    by J McSANE 8 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 18 6:00 PM 2007. In Society, Weird, Thoughts, Dark, Hope, Life, Lyrics, Nature
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  • I needed him, I needed him to notice me
    by mickmouse09 1 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 28 8:57 PM 2006. In Personal, Love
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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
    by mr write 68 lines, on Jul 23 4:25 PM 2007. In Depressed, Teenage thinking, Suicide, Life, Sad
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  • JUST ME / MYSELF / AND I / LYING HERE / NOTHING BUT / A MESS / I WONDER / WHAT I HAD DONE WRONG / JUST ME / MYSELF / AND I / LYING HERE / NOT
    by mr write 88 lines, on Jul 23 4:33 PM 2007. In Sad, Depressed, Suicide, Humanity, Message
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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't
    by Andii 44 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 25 11:56 AM 2007
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  • stars knock on my door
    highlights of the night
    by lingonberries 20 lines, 5 comments, on May 25 12:43 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Life
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • I wasn't strong enough
    to hold on
    by lingonberries 29 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 10 3:59 AM 2007. In Sad, Dark
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • The mirror shows no shadow
    my pain is stained on the walls
    by lingonberries 19 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 5 2:38 PM 2007. In Life, Dark
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  • 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 the
    by lovely elizabeth 12 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 23 5:08 PM 2007
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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
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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 w
    by Quotidian Detritus 53 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 11 2:27 PM 2007. In Pain, Dark, Hate, Love Lost, Death
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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 so
    by Quotidian Detritus 50 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 4:39 PM 2007. In Dark, Love, Pain, Death, Solitude
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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
    by xDanielx 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 19 7:04 PM 2007. In Suicide
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  • I’m scared out of my mind,

    I’m running out of time.
    by A Silent Cry 14 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 30 5:49 PM 2005. In Sad, Dark
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  • Her cuts have faded
    But her wounds never will
    by seay8689 26 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 16 5:56 PM 2007. In life, sad, love
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  • The pain he felt each day
    Was shown that night in the bathroom
    by SomethingPoetic 6 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 11 11:38 PM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Life, Sad, Society
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  • No one in sight
    She takes out the knife
    by seay8689 21 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 4 8:48 PM 2006. In Dark
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  • exploring light it was
    flying around it
    by yassmin 14 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 9 12:11 PM 2006. In Love
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  • 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
    by fabolous15 24 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 22 8:46 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Sad, Pain, Personal
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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
    by Wind Walker 91 lines, on Jul 23 8:21 PM 2007. In Contest, Personal, Sad, Abuse, Angst
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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
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  • the blade so sharp
    the cut so deep
    by lovejunkie 3 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 20 10:02 PM 2007
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  • Her eyes are blue like april rain.
    br
    by SheCallsMeBaby 9 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 29 4:30 PM 2006. In Dark, Depressing, Cutting, Hurt, Pain, Blood, Suicide
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  • 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 f
    by SheCallsMeBaby 54 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 18 9:18 PM 2007. In sad, depressed, suicide, life, personal, pain, thoughts
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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 ri
    by SheCallsMeBaby 35 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 14 2:29 PM 2007. In regret, loss, lost friendship, sad
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  • The glass slides so smoothly across the tan skin,
    your parents warned you about doing it again but what ever,
    by LittleBoPeep 8 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 2 12:49 PM 2007. In Dark, Life
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  • Watch the red hit the floor
    not worrying about the stain at the
    by LittleBoPeep 11 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 14 12:32 PM 2007. In Dark, Pain
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • Drunken with the metalic taste
    Her life seen obsolete
    by Spookshow Baby 23 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 12 5:22 AM 2006. In Personal, Dark, Angst
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  • 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 won
    by 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
  • 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
    by God is my reality 28 lines, on Jul 23 10:13 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Pain, Sad, Thoughts
    • Viewed by judge.
  • 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 t
    by 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
  • Ripped out, lying there / Bleeding, Aching / Pain from the knife, that was just stuck in / Love is suppose to be “amazing” / Screaming Out!
    by Randi6570 27 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 17 8:04 PM 2007. In Love, Pain, Personal
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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
    by PassionsPromise 29 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 10:36 PM 2007. In dark, death
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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 deserv
    by NickelleteXninja 22 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 16 3:18 PM 2007
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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 tighten
    by NickelleteXninja 26 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 2 10:44 PM 2007
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  • The pain feels good, / And it always should. / Every slash of my knife, / brings me closer to ending my life. / I cut myself looking to see
    by Poetic Skater11 29 lines, 27 comments, on Jul 6 12:05 PM 2007. In Personal, Life, Dark, Pain, Death, Sadness, Emo, Suicide
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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 she
    by Cold Paraniod Eyes 56 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 26 3:25 PM 2006. In Dark
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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 /
    by ninchick08 23 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 16 9:04 PM 2007. In Cutting, Dark, Pain
    • Viewed by judge.
  • My beautiful addiction,
    how I loathe from the recoil,
    by My Darkness 14 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 7 11:48 PM 2007. In Personal, Angst, Pain, Abuse
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • by My Darkness 15 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 3 7:44 PM 2007. In Personal
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  • by My Darkness 24 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 3 10:07 AM 2007. In Personal, Life, Hope
    • Viewed by judge. Prewrite
  • 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 for
    by dreamersalwayslive 37 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 3:31 PM 2007
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  • xoxohorses13xoxo
    June 29, 2007
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    i would love to win a contest but this isnt my style sorry!!!!!!!=(


  • Rainy Days
    June 29, 2007
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    Can we enter more than one poem?


  • DenyMyLove
    July 23, 2007
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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!!!!

  • ArmorXForXSleep
    July 23, 2007
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    Actually now it's 180 and i'm freaking out holy shit but I'll do it


  • Lady Blood Bound
    July 23, 2007
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    i have one called scars

    hey my poem scars would match in this catagory perfectly


  • God is my reality
    July 23, 2007
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    Hey, I love dark poetry, It makes you think, but I like having some uplifting poetry, just so i don't stay down


  • Koz
    July 25, 2007
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    who won???


  • Twilight4Eternity
    July 31, 2007
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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!


  • SMGriffin
    July 31, 2007
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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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