Are you, holding an image inside your head?
A picture, expressing all those things,
We'd love to do, before we're dead?
Are your ears burnt raw by the sound,
Of all the hurtful things they said?
Did the means (or the need to be mean)
Justify the vicious ends?
I didn't think so,
I didn't think twice
About our intentions;
Where did our morals go?
Hard like ice
A choice you might not like
Sometimes the only way
Lies in fading away..
When life turns gray
Cruelty comes out to play
You can tune out the outside
You'll burn all the brighter
On the inside, burning alive..
Does a stick of red ever have a home?
Or do the catalysts of beauty,
Always die, disfigured and alone?
Do the tools decide,
The roles of their lives,
Or are they kept in silk chains,
Fed lies through their veins,
Still dreaming of glory when you throw them
Out to die without a name?
The 'crayons' of our culture
Are really our shame..
When blame is a game,
We strive to hide what we couldn't tame,
The lonely ones strike out, searching for fame,
We try to find them, looking in vain,
They've already been dissolved into the rain.
A contest entry
- Picture Inspired by LadyUnique.
450 points, ended May 13, 2007, 17 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Oh wow. Great stuff, sir. Congrats on not being cheesy. That's too easy to do with this kind of theme. Or any poetry, really.
J'aime "Did the means justify the vicious ends?"
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"We strive to hide what we couldn't tame"
you have a lot to say..
cannot wait for what you have to say about love.
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Congratulations on your H.M. a wonderful job of
taking this picture and making it your own,
Warm thoughts
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Thanks, yours was good too, but my computer's been acting up so I wasn't able to comment it when I read it :-).
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Great write, original, interesting and has a great flow to it, really enjoyed reading this, not quite sure how i interpret it though, will have to read again, good luck in the contest hun
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Excellant/intriguing
A very fine write indeed. I found your imagery, rhythm and rhyme to be just fine. Again, very well done. -
these anonymous contests are rather cool there are some poems i read and know who the poet is... this one i'm pretty sure of
watch me be wrong 
i admire what you've gleaned from the picture and your word play... and rhyme play
thank you for entering and best of luck
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Excellant/fun
A very fine write indeed, and thanks for the chuckle.
I thought the imagery, rhythm, and rhyme were just fine. Again, well done, my friend.
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