Taylor, Swift contest - open to all

Taylor, Swift contest
[edited to show phrases taken] ... [9 taken]

Pick one of these phrases from Taylor Swift’s songs & develop a poem from it.

Let me know BY PM* which phrase you want — first come first served. Only one person per phrase, please.
[My PM is at https://www.poems-and-quotes.com/poets/343827]

Send me your poem by PM*. I’ll post them anonymously on this thread. Then you will all have time to send me your votes for the top three poems.

First prize: I’ll make comments on your choice of 3 of your poems.

Second prize: I’ll make comments on your choice of 2 of your poems.

Third prize: I’ll make comments on your choice of 1 of your poems.

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Select one and PM me your choice:

A hero on a history book page

All of my enemies started out friends

All you had to do was stay

Are we out of the woods yet

August sipped away like a bottle of wine

Boys only want love if it’s torture

Cold was the steel of the axe I grind

Don't you ever grow up

I get older but just never wiser

I go back to December all the time

I just wanted you to know that this is me trying

I never planned on changing your mind

I search for your dark side

I should not be left to my own devices

I still talk to you When I'm screaming at the sky

I wish you would come back

I'm a mirrorball and I'll show you every version of yourself tonight

I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale

I’m tied together with a smile

I’ve been in a lot of lonely places but I’ve never been on the outside

I’ve got a blank space, baby

I've got a hundred thrown-out speeches I almost said to you

I’ve never met anyone cold as you

If I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?

If you never bleed, you're never gonna grow

In my defense I have none

Invisible strings tying you to me

It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero

Just one single glimpse of relief

Just trying to find a place in the world

Like a figment of my worst intentions

My depression works the graveyard shift

Now we’ve got bad blood

Our song is the slammin’ screen door

She had a marvelous time ruining everything

Tell me when it’s over if the high was worth the pain

The flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst

The greatest films of all time were never made

The hero died so what’s the movie for

The worst thing that I ever did was what I did to you

There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen

We never go out of style

When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe

When you are young, they assume you know nothing

Would it be enough if I could never give you peace

You made a rebel of a careful man's careful daughter

You're just another picture to burn

Taken: You drew stars around my scars

Taken: I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending

Taken: I've been the archer, I've been the prey

Taken: Some things you just can't speak about

Taken: Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die

Taken: Praying the floor won't fall through, again

Taken: They are the hunters, we are the foxes

Taken: We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean

Taken: You should’a said no

So excited about this! Great idea, Larry :)

Love the idea, Taylor has so many great phrases!!

What a decent contest! Even though I am going through a dry season in my writing and have no clue if I ever start righting again, I appreciate the thought in this, and give my support.

Tell you what, plug in Taylor's Evermore album and you might get inspired. That is the one that made me realize what a good poet she is.

I've updated to show there are now 8 phrases taken. Two poems have been sent in.

Let's see if everyone can get their poems in in the next week or so.

I'm excited about this one, I hope more people get in on this.

Does anyone hear that?

tick tock

No, but that's alarming!

Starting a New Thread to post the entries.