poetry contest!!!!!!!

  • jamye
    18 years ago

    alrigt guys come and post your poems here and i will choose first place please title your poems if your poem has no title put your name as your title and if their more of your poems with no title put your name#1 i will judge on saturday the 25 of june @ 5:30

  • EoB
    18 years ago

    Since I'm being an ass today, I'll post my longest poem.

    The Nights of the Lost Song

    A story once was told to me
    many a year ago.
    It tells of love and joyfulness,
    and agony and woe.

    In a place, that few now know,
    there could be heard a song
    that filled the air on November nights,
    when they turned cold and long.

    They called it the Nights of the lost song
    for no one knew who sang.
    And on one of these November Nights,
    a tragic story began.

    None had been able to trace the song
    to the place, from which it came,
    for few was able to distinguish it
    from the cold wind and the rain.

    Then once a teen-aged boy was seen,
    for whom no one really cared,
    standing on the edge of the woods,
    into the dark he stared.

    For there, within, he heard a song,
    a mournful woman's voice.
    and his clear-green eyes with fire were filled
    as he made his final choice.

    As he strolled, then, into the woods,
    to the song he was ever drawn,
    and finally he reached a meadow therein,
    in the coldness before the dawn.

    And there he saw, on a little height,
    amidst a globe of light,
    A whiteglad girl, standing there,
    singing into the night.

    And when he approached her, cautiously
    and finally saw her face,
    in his eyes one could see the reflection of her,
    he had never seen such grace.

    Her voice was keen like falcon-cries,
    yet wonderful and fair,
    and dark-brown were her sparkling eyes
    and so her silky hair.

    But the girl soon felt his eyes upon her,
    and her song stopped there and then.
    For what she felt when she saw this boy
    she would never feel again.

    Nor had she felt it before, for she,
    she had lived her life alone,
    And within her the days before they met
    an empty space had grown.

    Then down from the height she slowly came,
    her eyes fixed upon his,
    and under the moon and the dark, sparkling sky,
    she gave him a tender kiss.

    And at this moment, from the open sky
    a snow-crystal did fall.
    On the confluence of their lips, it landed
    and held the boy enthralled.

    Then he look at her, and saw her heart,
    and took her by the hand,
    and together they walked till the break of dawn,
    in this silent moonlit land.

    As morning came he ask her to
    join him to his home,
    "Yes," she said, "of course I will".
    Now she feared to live alone.

    And then they walked through field and wood,
    at his home they`d soon arrive,
    but the place she'd left, once her home
    she would never again see alive.

    And so they lingered on in peace,
    and the girl would sing her song.
    And on the land surrounding them.
    All stains seemed to have gone

    And their love would keep on growing ever
    as winter turned to spring,
    and the land was getting ever fairer
    as long as she did sing.

    As summer came, the boy asked her:
    "Will you be my wife
    to let me love you, and love me back,
    and to share my joyful life?"

    The girl was thrilled beyond compare,
    she could not ask for more.
    "Yes", she said", "I love you now
    and will forevermore".

    Then they married and lived in bliss
    as months still slowly passed,
    Days turned cold, and seasons fell,
    but their love, at least, did last

    Then one day, when a year was old,
    she was struck by a disease,
    and with the failing light outside,
    did her strength to live decrease

    On that day, as snow first came,
    seven years had gone,
    A total silence lay on the land
    for no one heard her song.

    No animal was seen that day,
    no bird upon the sky,
    A strange sensation filled the air,
    for an angel was to die.

    Late that Night, when he came to her,
    as she lay there on the bed,
    Deep within the boy now knew,
    his love would soon be dead.

    And mournfulness overthrew his mind
    as he touched her pale, white skin
    "I leave my soul to rest in you,
    and to forever remain therein."

    His feet were trembling, as again he spoke,
    "please, look into my eyes.
    Beyond time I am bound to you,
    by these countless unswerving ties."

    Her silvery eyes glazed back at him,
    as a smile grew on her face.
    Living in her dream she died,
    never to be replaced.

    Gods did cry and stars grew dim,
    as he saw her lose her life
    The tears on his cheek did never dry.
    He had lost his beloved wife.

    And the boy took off, into the woods,
    to live alone and weep,
    and upon the sky, he sought for her,
    and never went to sleep.

    And every year, as October fades,
    and November makes all dark,
    you can see her again, upon the sky
    as a small, but shining spark.

    And deep in the woods, where first they met
    you still may hear a song.
    A man is singing of pain and grief
    and of a love that is long gone.

    Rasmus Strøm Evensen©

  • EJ
    18 years ago

    Untitled... EJ

    No I’m not clean but I’m not ready to be
    sorry you cant stop me from being what I believe
    you may call me a freak you may say I’m insane
    but I’m just a girl that needs to ease her pain
    So yeah I do cut and yeah I love my blade
    I’m sorry you cant stop me and that you cant heal my pain
    I don’t need you to help me I don’t need you to cry
    I know what I’m doing now but I’m not ready to die
    You can stand back and watch I’ll show you every slice
    but don’t try to pick up the pieces I don’t need you to be nice
    I’ve been hurt before from people just like you
    people who think they adore the girl they never knew
    Yeah I’m pushing you away so please give me my space
    I wont do any thing crazy like try and leave this place
    I feel like I’m in a dream world floating so far away
    it is just like a drug addiction guides my way
    You don’t have to feel sorry or wish that things would change
    I’ll still cut my wrist tonight just like I do every day
    Yeah it does sound painful and yeah it sometimes bleeds
    but it makes my life blissful because it calms my every need
    You wish I wouldn’t do it I wish you wouldn’t cry
    I guess we will never get what we wish for deep inside
    You say my lives so dark now there is no color all around
    well every night I add some red to this crazy black and white town
    so maybe I laugh when I show you my wrist I’m just proud of what I have done
    no one understands the power between my finger and my thumb
    you cry like something is wrong like you didnt know it all along
    but you have always known what I do when I finally get home
    you scream for me to stop now you say there is to much blood
    you wish you had a string to pull to undo what I just done
    well sorry to disappoint you but there is no rewind
    you cant just pick up a remote and magically turn back time
    You say I feel so cold now to me I feel just fine
    if only you knew I do this all the time
    I’m becoming an expert starting to get bored
    maybe I’ll start to cut where the blood will come much more
    I don’t need your pity I don’t need your help
    so please just leave me here so I can live my hell
    I promise I’ll save you a seat if hell is really real
    because alcohol does the same to you but that you will never tell
    so leave me now and take your own advice
    someone needs you here so please don’t say your final goodbye
    don’t drink the world goodbye tonight

  • kalakilanta
    18 years ago

    Heres a song i was writting

    I'm drowning in ocean of self hate
    I'm looking through the flaming gate
    I'm listening to your silent screams
    I close my eyes and begin to dream

    All i see is your face
    God please come and save me from this place
    the memory of what you did
    all the painful thoughts i thought i hid
    everything is coming back to me
    when you need your life,you didn't see

    I'm drowning in an ocean of self hate
    I'm looking through the frozen gate
    I'm listening to your silent screams
    I close my eyes and begin to dream

    I can see your actions
    Tell me though,did you get satisfaction?
    I hear your screams in my soul
    I need the answers to become whole
    Why would you take your blade?
    the memories of you will never fade

    I'm drowning in an ocean in self hate
    I'm looking through the flaming gate
    I'm listening to your silent screams
    I close my eyes and begin to dream

    and i can't believe I'm admitting this
    but your the one I'll always miss
    I remember your blood dripping
    I was there watching your skin ripping
    I was there and saw your fears
    I tried not to realize the end was near

    I'm drowning in a ocean of self hate
    I'm looking into the flaming gate
    I'm listening to your silent screams
    I'm closing my eyes and having this dream

    So you may have left me alone
    you may be gone and thats well known
    you'll never be around through the seasons
    tell me now did you have your reasons?
    so leave me if you want
    and no more memories of what i thought

    i was drowning in that ocean
    i was looking through that gate
    i used to hear your silent screams
    i have me eyes open your no longer in my dreams

  • Ashley
    18 years ago

    what love means to me
    by ashley williams

    To me love is unconditional and all you need,
    It can also be tough and seem like its being torn out.
    Its something that everyone goes though.
    Only in different ways.
    If you're afraid to love because it may hurt,
    That is a natural thing to us.
    We go though it together.
    Never keep a secret from your love one,
    Sometimes it turns out bad.
    Love can also be unpredictable.
    It can be beautiful like rainbow,
    But can also be darkness inside you.
    People will always love till death do us part,
    Even when you have made a wrong turn it will take its own course.
    Love is always different depending on the person.

  • John Vlight
    18 years ago

    Dark water

    I sit on my bed
    And lay to rest
    And to sleep
    I try my best
    But I fear the dreams
    That enter my mind
    I must endure this
    Like all of my kind
    So I will not sleep
    But instead research
    The hawk in my mind
    On my soul, perched
    It allows me to live
    And won't let me die
    For this hawk
    Is my lie
    It is October
    And thus I sleep
    And hopefully my soul
    Is mine to keep
    The hawk protects me
    Keeps me safe
    So I don't have to
    Show my face
    The feather black
    The beak white
    The water dark
    The flower light
    So I let it lay
    Inside my soul
    So I can sleep
    On My green knoll
    And
    As the hawk
    Sat in my mind
    Its beak white chalk
    Dark water dripping
    Into a black rose
    Ideas filling me
    From head to toes
    When the rose overflowed
    And the water spilled
    The ideas were murdered
    Killed
    But as the hawk
    Flew away
    My mind was slow
    Somehow delayed
    But when it came back
    The water was gone
    I must retrieve it
    Before too long
    Is it killing me
    Why doesn't it finish
    And my mind
    Finally diminish

  • Donna
    18 years ago


    I tought to myself
    for a minute or so
    and then I decided
    to let the thought go

    No one could think that
    not about me
    how could he care
    he couldnt even see

    The spirit inside
    was running wild
    i started to cry
    like a young child

    I started running
    I had to get away
    away from the feelings
    I didnt want to say

    You may think Im selfish
    a little to hard core
    but i know who i am
    im not a damn whore

  • Donna
    18 years ago

    Realization
    Fake on the outside
    no one can see
    beneath all the layers
    covered around me

    I hide myself from you
    you hide yourself from me
    do we even know who we are
    can this truely be

    Is everyone fake
    this is so sureal
    i dont know who I am
    what is my deal

    Why do I try
    to play it cool
    when really im a loser
    burning my own fuel

    I have more fun without you
    because i can relax
    i dont have to hold my guns
    i play it to the max

    So just cill out
    and have fun
    be relaxed
    its tons more fun

  • EJ
    18 years ago

    Hey just wondering which 25 it actually is.. because the post was put up on june 21 so naturally i thought it would be the 25 of june.. maybe i shouldnt have thought but i did.. so just wondering if someone would like to feel me in it would be nice!! thanks so much.. EJ

  • Shadows Collide
    18 years ago

    Bending The Truth (Without Breaking It)

    It isn't yours,
    It isn't mine,
    Whip us if we're out of line,
    Break our bodies and trap our minds,
    Regulate us one last time.

    Not ours,
    Definitely not theirs,
    Politicians use ice cold stares,
    Bend the truth to make us scared,
    No finger pointing (Bush and Blair).

    Propaganda,
    Feed us lies,
    Ignore all of "your" peoples' cries,
    One more war- no compromise,
    Who cares if the innocent die,
    A semi-political genocide,
    Where your hatred now resides,
    Strip our countries of their pride,
    Lead us to the darker side,
    No stopping them, though we've tried,
    Bush and Tony- his blushing bride.

    Cheers

  • cowgirlstar26
    18 years ago

    UNBOUND

    I look to the sky, I see you fly by
    So beautiful and free, as happy as can be

    I look to the ground, and see the chains
    the ones that bound you, that gave you great pain

    I shout to the wind, "Farewell and goodbye"
    You look back at me, while I start to cry

    I think about the days, the times that we shared
    I remember the words, how much I cared

    I remember, how new, how special to me
    our relationship was, the joy it gave me

    Now I see you in the distance, headed towards the sea
    I whisper to you, be free, be free
    At the same time, I feel alost and alone
    For my life revolved around you, and you alone

    I sacrificed my time, my thoughts, and my friends
    For I thought it would all be worth it in the end

    This isn't how I expected the end to be
    I thought it would last for eternity

    Right now I can't figure out a few things
    Like the things you said, that you didn't mean

    Didn't mean, or believe, its all the same to me
    Because at the same time I listened and I believed

    Then you started to change, turning angry and mean
    Had I gotten too close, that you call me a fiend

    I tried to listen, I wanted it to work
    all you said was, "get away from me, you jerk"
    here is only so much, a man can take
    I think you knew this, wanting me to break

    You pushed and you pushed, and finally won
    I fell in the mud, and you started to run

    Run away from responsibility, and lots of dedication
    To the life you want, that is one giant vacation

    One day you will realize, what you had, and lost
    a friend who cared, and would give at all costs

    Now we split, go off on our own seperate ways
    And only one thing left, which I want to say

    "Take care my love, once dearest friend to me
    Fly off in the wind, be free, be free"

  • shakenangel
    18 years ago

    I hope it's not too late to put in poems

    Childhood Gone Wrong:

    Emptiness
    Clouds his soul, shrouds his mind.
    He cannot forget, can't help but regret
    That he still has a piece of himself to find.

    Where is it?
    An answer perhaps he shouldn't know.
    He's too insecure, not really mature,
    enough to let those pathways grow.

    Happiness
    Takes him under, he's so overjoyed.
    And yet his mind wanders, he still looks beyond her.
    And he still cannot see why she's so annoyed?

    Why is that?
    He knows inside himself that's he's failed her.
    She'll fight past the pain, she's trying to regain,
    The world which - inevitably - is gone forever.

    Forgotten
    He's had the same chance for seventeen years.
    He could have tried harder, could have gone even farther.
    But instead drugs have dried his tears.

    Lying broken.
    He's in too far, there's no chance of escape.
    He's twisted his feelings, couldn't find the meaning.
    Did he really think it would help if he raped?...

    ............

    The future?
    No future remains for these two distant souls.
    He wasted his life, she's turned to the knife.
    As they continue to dig themselves deeper holes.

  • Shawn Williams
    18 years ago

    Two Souls Intertwined
    by Shawn Williams

    As the darkness fades and the night slips away...all I can think about is you.
    On those days away...I've memorized the lines of your face...How did one soul come from two?
    When your gone...I can only write sad songs...I crave to feel your arms... just me and you.
    After lonely nights...I awake...hallucinate...see your name written... images in the dew.
    Two souls intertwined...Two eyes one sight...I see you and I growing old...
    They say loves blind...if so take my eyes...ours is the greatest love story ever told.
    I have faith...that Gods grace sustains...when tough times make great love grow cold.
    With storms clouds come rain...pouring trials of pain...here is my hand for you to hold...
    Im your rock...your my soft spot...our foundation built on God's strength...
    I know we've fought...we've yelled and mocked... to believe in us takes great faith...
    But your my angel....my heavenly gift...I thirst for you...let me drink from your lips...
    I take a sip and steal just one kiss...we burn eternal...our love is endless.

  • FlowerThatDied
    18 years ago

    *Disintergrating*
    As I shed a tear,
    After my strength is dying faster by the year,
    Nothing left to do,
    Than no longer love you,

    As I slip away,
    After all hope is disintergrating by the day,
    Nothing left I let go,
    I love you is the last emotion I show,

    As the tunnel darkens black,
    After your love you take back,
    Nothing left to build,
    For I love you I killed,

    As I shed a tear,
    I begin to live again and finish the years,
    Nothing left to do,
    After I can't love you,

    As I slipped away,
    I realised lifes to be lived by the day,
    Nothing left I can't let go,
    I love you is no longer the emotion I show,

    As the tunnel darkens black,
    I see a light and I turn back,
    Nothing left to lose,
    For I love you is meant to be said by two,
    But it no longer is

  • None
    18 years ago

    My Sweet Taboo

    Now’s a good time
    to speak the truth,
    and share the feelings
    that I have for you.
    Better now than never,
    it’s long over-due
    so here I go ______,
    this one is for you

    Like the suns friendly ray
    melting ice-caps away,
    to heaven I pray
    we are together one day.
    As the moon in the night
    Flies high and bright,
    undying to you,
    my heart’s delight.

    Persistent and true,
    are my feelings for you,
    like the constant arrival
    of the mornings sweet dew.
    Gentle like the wind
    on a breeze filled day,
    blowing within,
    my feelings will stay.

    Engulfing my senses
    like a fire a blaze
    are your stunning good looks
    that put me to daze
    my faith in blossom,
    a brand new start,
    found in the dirt
    is my lonely heart

    Soaring above,
    like a small butterfly,
    free like a dove
    in the endless blue sky,
    It has always been love
    that I see in your eyes,
    and I want you to know,
    that I will no longer lie.

    A thick radiation
    of colors so bright-
    a rare creation,
    like a rainbow at night.
    A breath taking view
    of something so unique
    leaves me speechless in awe,
    all I do is blink.

    From the first time I saw you
    it was such a delight,
    your beauty was brand new,
    but it was love at first sight.
    Passion befriends few,
    and I am lucky to have seen,
    no one quite like you,
    none so unforgettable to me

    Your smile is perfect,
    and personality is best,
    your faith is attractive
    and you really are blessed.
    you care for the needy,
    and give to the poor,
    as long as I breathe,
    I will care forevermore.

    This is nothing more
    than my sweet taboo,
    I have always wondered
    what it would be like to kiss you,
    to hold you tight within my arms,
    and keep you safe from this world of harm,
    to cherish your thoughts and take care of your needs
    give you my best, and be all I can be.

    What I need from you
    is to decipher the code,
    am I just a good friend
    or have I always been more?
    Either way I am fine,
    but I just need to know…
    So I can put my mind at ease,
    Or finally let go.
    T.S. 07-06-05

  • BrokenMisery
    18 years ago

    Now They're Gone...

    Watching fire burn silhouettes alight
    Destruction causing chaos in withering delight
    Burning to charcoal as a city stands bare
    Forgotten in a world with no one to care

    Bodies along the streets, dumped and dead
    Twisted and broken with memories unsaid
    Those that stand here in bitterness alive
    Cry their tears upon the souls that died

    In this game of war your brothers took part
    As bombs rained down, tearing cities apart
    Into the war these soldiers were born
    Now their names recorded, the boys are gone...