I'm in no kind of conciliatory mood
With pitted wounds, so figuratively born
No sanctions held with blood rising so
In this struggle of self, I'm so torn
I clench both eyes so tightly shut
The blaring tocsins held deepest inside
Manic laughter, the chorus of despair
I never meander, I so often hide
Just dreaming of black and white flowers
Brought to life, just to be rendered dead
No pleading can save the sedentary
Just from what I've seen in my head
You just utter your ineffable words
Ignoring the tears, the one's who've cried
Who am I to stop your every move
So reticent, I stand by, I've lied
Just cause I'm not strong enough to fight
Doesn't mean I can't just walk away
I'll abandon those that have no value
And save myself, live life another day
I'm not a saint, surely no savior
I'm just a life, born to be ended
So I'll laugh at the latent irony
And be damned if I care if you're offended
Author notes
conciliatory: tending to win over from a state of hostility or distrust
sanction • \SANK-shun\ • verb
*2 : to give effective or authoritative approval or consent to
tocsin • \TOCK-sin\ • noun
1 : an alarm bell or the ringing of it
*2 : a warning signal
meander
2 : to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination : ramble
sedentary • \SED-un-tair-ee\ • adjective
3 : not physically active
reticent • \RET-uh-sunt\ • adj
*1 : inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved
A contest entry
- Vocabulary Word of the Day by HugsForEveryone.
760 points, ended March 13, 6 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What do you think?
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congratulations on the bronze shiny
well done a real poem rather the a string if words
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Thank you very much.
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What made this piece really stand out from the others in my contest is you actually made it a real poem -others just made the poems to use the words, but when I saw this I assumed you had a good vocabulary and I would never have guessed you were prompted with these words for a contest. This was very well written and thanks for entering my contest!
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I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. Thank you very much for the bronze trophy, it's well appreciated (spelling?).
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(I know I commented already but it was a while ago sooo)
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Holy moly this was good. Your vocabulary is great and as always your rhyming was done really really well. Best of luck in the contest.
Take care
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Thanks, Stacey, I'm glad you liked it. I've never tried to use such...unusual words before, I had thought maybe it might not be so good. Guess I surprised myself & you haha.
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Just two things:
Line 1 = Conciliatory,
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Line 5 = Clench,
Other than that I found nothing out of place and everything running smoothly! Thank you very much for entering and best of luck!!
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Thanks for pointing those spelling mistakes out, I had thought they were correct, at least now I can fix them.
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Yeah No problem, the poem was great!!
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Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I thought maybe you didn't since the first thing you did was point out the spelling problems.
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nonono don't worry, I do that with all contest entries ^_^
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All right.
That makes me feel much better.
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Good!
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