DOUBLE contest. (Free topic)

~CLOSED UNLESS RESERVED~CLOSED UNLESS RESERVED~

Each entrant of this contest is required to submit TWO poems, one using one of the listed titles and one they make up on their own. All poems must be newly written, so anything with a date before 8-04-2007 will not be read and that entrant will be disqualified.

When reserving a spot list BOTH titles you are using, the title you are reserving and the one you are making up. Only one entrant per title. Free topic range. Write on anything, about anything. Simply make it good. HOWEVER, whatever topic you choose must run through BOTH of your poems.

All poems must rhyme, but anyone who knows me knows I don't mind a rebel. If you think your poem is exceptional and doesn't rhyme, post it anyway and I'll read it. I JUDGE HARSHLY ON FLOW. MAKE YOUR POEM FLOW. DON'T FORCE RHYME AND RHYTHM.

Reserved Spots:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.Syhn
6.Philematology Me
7.Twisted Heart
8.Teria
9.Raveena
10.
11.Racheal
12.

Titles:
1.River Run Wild
2.From Blood to Blazing Rain
3.Birth of a Shadow
4.Keepsake; Golden Soul
5.Escape From Memory
6.Eyes Glazed Over
7.Beat Down Palace
8.Wings Too Wide
9.Souls Left Empty
10.From Damp Halls to Hope
11.All Fall Down
12.The Life of a Leaf
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.December Rain
6.Another Night
7.Slipping on My Memories
8.A Lot Like Cheap Wine
9.Not the Way
10.
11.And Now He's Gone
12.

Prizes:
Only ONE winner, an add to my favorites list and 20 r/r/c. If you don't have 20 poems, I'll read 'em all. (duh)
Any honorable mention poems: 7 r/r/c

Okay.
I'll take;;
Wings Too Wide.
And, the title I am making myself. [[Well, Jennifer gave it to me. Lol]] is;;
A lot like cheap wine.

Quick question: When does this end?

When all the spots are filled. Judging will take place immediately after.

Birth of a shadow plz

To Wings of Flames:

I'll reserve the spot, but I also need the title you're making up posted before your poems.

To Raveena:

All topics are accepted in this contest. Explicit, erotica, self-harm, anything. I will judge your poem based on flow, delivery of the message of your poem, and my ability to comprehend it.

Can I have 'Escape From Memory' please? Oh, and the title of my whatever poem is 'December Rain'

REMINDER:
All poems must be newly written. I will not accept any poems with a date before 8-04-07. Any poems found with a date before that will not be read and the entrant will be disqualified.

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Only one entrant per title, sorry! Please read the rules. I can take your made up title, but please choose a different title for the other poem and submit it. Thank you.

December Rain

Right now my stomach's doing somersaults
As the rain keeps pounding on my window
Right now my soul's trying to heal its faults
My heart's cracking from all that it knows

I think back to when I had a lot of sunshine
And in July I had happiness by the masses
I think back to when I thought I was doing fine
But that's because I didn't wear my sunglasses

I figured out that because happiness was all I knew
Things for me had never really gone bad
I figured out that I really didn't have a clue
On how to feel guilt, misery, or be sad

I wondered why I never really felt complete
And why my mind was never really reliable
I wondered why I always felt so empty
And why my true life seemed more like a fable

I know now it was because I didn't know myself
I didn't know a little friend named pain
He taught me my little lesson himself
Nothing can live without a little December rain

Thank you all for your entries. I won't read them until the post is closed, just so you all know.

Please try to submit your entries as soon as possible. I don't like to keep contests running for too long.

Mine last poem wont be in until probably saturday. Got marching band all day tomorrow... sorry :(

I'll take "Beat Down Palace" and my other one is, "Slipping On My Memories". Will get it submitted later on tonight or first thing tomorrow, if that is okay... or did you want them submitted together? If so, will edit my first until I get the second one done.

Thanks
Jeannie

Beat Down Palace
By: Twisted Heart

Inside the soul that crumbles
from pain too much to bare
Hidden in the corner
of your heart torn by despair
Are memories that's holding
to the wreckage of your mind
Broken in the battle
beaten down and left behind.

Mere sadness seems too soft a word
describing what is real
A heart so full of emptiness
a vacancy you feel
Against the night of loneliness
your teardrops fall like rain
Shattering the silence
time and time again.

No hope to stay the power
of the night that holds the heart
Just shattered jagged pieces
as it breaks apart
A hunger that is burning
into ashes stings the eyes
Leaving not a trace
of what a soul cannot deny.

To sleep with such a heartache
may bring to one relief
Seldom does it follow
deep inside your dreams
A comfort in the holding
of a heart and soul that breaks
Are fragile thoughts consuming
on a mind that's wide awake.

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Slipping On My Memories
By: Twisted Heart

It's midnight now,
I slowly rise
Wipe the teardrops
from my eyes

To the bed I sadly go
Cotton sheets feel so cold

No tender dreams
to welcome me
For I'm slipping on
the memories

Tender times from long ago
Fill my heart and stab my soul

No peace is there
to comfort me
Just tarnished dreams
and fantasies.

Each time I try to close my eyes
I slip and fall inside the lies

Thanks all! Sorry, I haven't been on for a few days. I'm glad I'm getting more entries. To those who has reserved spots: This contest will close two weeks from today to anyone who has had a spot reserved and not posted for over a week. That gives everyone three weeks.

Please post any objections.

Can I please have Souls left empty, And now he's gone.

Thank you!

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Please read the rules. Both of those are already taken and the second title is one you create. Thanks!

As I'm sick of waiting, judging will take place today. If you reserved a spot and haven't submitted your poem, you can PM it to me and you can still win a first, second, or third place prize.

THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED!

It's a bit of a shame that only two peopled entered this contest according to the rules, but I have a winner!

WINNER: Twisted Heart