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If any of you guys have noticed... there seems to be a song title fetish going around. Most contests are on songs and such. WELL THIS IS SOMETHING NEW!

It is the dream contest of 5 people in the poetry club Tranquil Musings.

Ciao, Terra, Danielle, Micheal, and Me (Me Being Jenna) have been working on this contest in our club (Tranquil Musings) and we have it all sorted out. We are not only creatng the contest together, but we will be taking each poem and discussing it within us 5 in order to decide who should get first place, second place and third place.

You will not only be getting comments from one person, but you will get them from all 5 of us.

and prizes..

First Prize: 10 r/r/c (total of 50 comments)
Second Prize: 5 r/r/c (total of 25 comments)
Third Prize: 3 r/r/c (total of 15 comments)
2-- H/M: 1 r/r/c (total of 5 comments each)

Now, I don't know about you, but 50 comments is a huge amount!! For one contest anyways.

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Rules:

`Minimum of 3 lines.
`There is no maximum, but if we find it is draggin on we will tell you.
`No suicide/self harm
`HAVE FUN!!!

(we don't like alot of rules as you can see :D )

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Now in this contest you will choose from the three selections and reserve your spot in each of them.
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Titles:

Not A Day Goes By -- [FULL]
1) Teria [DONE]
2) Pete
3) Lauren

Fear Is Only In Our Minds -- [FULL]
1) Decay in the Dark
2) Hey Italy -- [DONE]
3) Romancing

Time Stands Still
1) Sheena [DONE]
2) Pete [DONE]
3)

My Unholy Requiem (you can use her/his/etc if you would like) -- [FULL]
1) Nyell [DONE]
2) Jean [DONE]
3) Kristi

Bend Me, Break Me
1) Sandra [DONE]
2) Pete [DONE]
3) GothicVampyress

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Styles
Glosa Verse -- [FULL]
1) Sheena [DONE]
2) Kristi
3) Pete

Free Verse -- [FULL]
1) Sandra [DONE]
2) Nyell [DONE]
3) Decay in the Dark

Sonnet -- [FULL]
1) Jean [DONE]
2) Romancing
3) Pete -- [DONE]

Rispetto
1) Pete [DONE]
2) GothicVamyress
3)

Licentia Rhyme -- [FULL]
1) Teria [DONE]
2) Hey Italy -- [DONE]
3) Lauren

(These can all be found at www.shadowpoetry.com)

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Categories
Love, Romance, Sadness, Depression, Miscellaneous [FULL]
1) Teria [DONE]
2) Sandra [DONE]
3) Pete [DONE]

Fun, Humor, Friendship, Family, Life, Society
1)Kristina
2)
3)

Dark, Fantasy, Love, Romance, Nature, Environment -- [FULL]
1) Nyell [DONE]
2) Decay in the Dark
3) Romancing

Nature, Environment, Sadness, Depression, Explicit -- [FULL]
1) Sheena [DONE]
2) Pete -- [DONE]
3) Kristi

Love, Romance, Dark, Fantasy, Friendship, Family --
1) Jean [DONE]
2) Pete
3) GothicVampyress

Explicit, Fun, Humor, Life, Society
1) Hey Italy -- [DONE]
2)
3)

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The Due Date is undecided as of this moment, so look back frequently to see when we put it up.

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You Can Contact -- any of the judges at any time if you would like.

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/contact_member.html?id=65088
^^Jenna [HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG]

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/contact_member.html?id=70866
^^Ciao [aDORKable x3]

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/contact_member.html?id=265587
^^Danielle [xXPerfect ChaosXx xCTCx]

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/contact_member.html?id=295241
^^Michael [ArkAng3lS0rr0w]

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/contact_member.html?id=246038
^^Terra [XoX The Forbidden Smile oXo]

And who knows.. if all goes well, we may even do another contest like this.. but the next one could be better. :D

Good Luck :]

(: I love it.

Okay, I'll do:
Not A Day Goes By

Lincetia Rhyme.

And

Love, Romance, Sadness, Depression, Miscellaneous. [[First 1]]

Now, question. Do you have to use ALL of the genres or just one?

I'll definately do it, but the thing is I already have a poem called "Time Stands Still" and it's one of my favorites.. problem is, the style (Glosa Verse) isn't one of the choices. (Or maybe put it under "Free Verse"?) If not, that's alright. ^^
Would you prefer me to just pick another title, style, and genre? I can do that. ^^

If I have to pick, though, I'll take:
Time Stands Still (I just <love> this title!)
Free Verse
Sadness, Depression

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

SWEET!

ill take...

Bend Me Break Me
Free Verse
and the first category please

thank you so much!

As much as I`d love to let you do that Sheena, I can`t change any of the styles that are there except my own [licentia] and it`s already been chosen :[ . We all picked our preferred styles, titles and yadda yadda. But, I will reserve you for the other one :D

And, which sadness depression option would you like, Dear? LOL, there`s 2.

The third one: Nature, Sadness, Depression, Explicit, and something else. ^^

Do I have to use all of those in the poem?

And, it's okay, I didn't expect to get by, I was just asking. ^^

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

I want My Unholy Requiem/ Free Verse/ Dark, Fantasy, Love, Romance, Nature, Environment

Excellent idea for a contest! :)

Nope, just one of them. Can do more, though, if you would like.

My Unholy Requiem, English Sonnet, #5.

Thanks
Jeannie

I noticed no one had these items so went ahead and wrote something.
I'm using "Bend Me, Break Me", Rispetto - I don't really understand the subject categories so if you can fit it into any that apply i would be grateful.

I'm not sure if it classes as self harm - i rarely write poetry like this ... Also my first attempt at sticking to a structure.

I feel him pursuing me, he haunts every dream.
He's freezing my thoughts with every iced breath.
I know why he's doing this, so it would seem.
He's forcing my hand, while awaiting my death.

I sense that he's near, my breath still abated.
Now it would appear he has fruitfully waited.
I forfeit to my death, now caress me and take me.
His unholy breath, persists to bend me and break me

You choose a subject category in which you think it would apply. But, since we didn`t have one with dark AND sadness or depression, I just left it with the first category.

And no, it doesn`t classify as self harm, it is talking about death but it isn`t saying "I took my razorblade and slashed, death awaits me now" or whatever -- that would be self harm.

Thanks for entering, :]

I shall change my style Jenna to Glosa Verse. :]
I see Limerick has not been chosen.
Sheena, I hope you still want to enter your one previously mentioned.

Ciao<3

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My Unholy Requiem [English Sonnet]
By: Twisted Heart

Dark comes the whisper on this night of nights
As the moon tosses daggers at the stars
The feel of his breath has caused me a fright
In the blackened pitched depths of my heart.

He's awakened my soul from a slumber
With a howl at the moon I now arise
From bowels seared inside, I feel hunger
As taste for fresh meat is cast in my eyes.

Searching the corners of dark lonely streets
In alleys I seek to find crimson wine
Perhaps, an innocent... Oh what a treat
To taste the succulent blood so divine.

A call from Master is heard in the breeze
A breath of seduction tending my needs.

A coil of talons reach down in the night
Gripping my soul with a dark winter's song
The demons around me rise to take flight
Their voices echo and drag me along

Among darkened pillars of Master's lair
En crouched 'neath the moon in shadows I lie
A maiden, so pure... gold flecks in her hair
Rests on the slab, with fear in her eyes.

From the thunderous clashing of moonlight
Comes Master to feast from her tender neck
When his thirst is sated he moves aside
Leaving his children to feed on her flesh.

With a dirge on his breath, he calls to me
My Master... My lover... eternally.

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A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg. Each line consists of a set syllable count of 10.

[Dives into the styles]
YOU ADDED GLOSA VERSE!
CHAA.
Can I still submit my older one with the same title, or do I have to write a new one?

If I have to write a new one, never mind this post. ^^
xox.

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

You can submit your older one if you`d like to, or you can submit a new one if you want to write a new one, it is completely up to you, Dear. :]

All done! (haha, i wrote it in english today!) :]

Bend Me, Break Me

I want us to work out,
But you're bending me in two.
You keep avoiding the subject,
You know eventually I will break.

I need to know why
I'm still here right now
Trying to make this work,
Still trying to hold on.

I'm being pulled two ways
And I'm not liking it at all.
I'm split between my heart and head
And can't choose between the two.

My heart keeps getting beaten and bruised
But it always comes back to you.
But not anymore, that was the last time,
Because in the end this heart is broken.

You finally broke it.
My head tried to warn me.
You bent my heart a little too far
And it just couldn't hold.

Time Stands Still {Glosa-Verse}

This is a poem based off the song "Seeman," by Rammstein. The quatrain is from that song. It's part of the style.
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So merciless is only the night
In the end I'm left alone
The time stands still
And I am cold
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The autumn wind wipes tears off your face;
Elder women rush to beckon you home.
You are lost amongst the darkness;
Who will be there to hold you
When wind whisks you away?
Shiver in this comfort of fright;
Something finally holds you close!
Hold on to what your memory last saw;
You no longer need them for their light;
"So merciless is the only night."

"Come a little closer," the wind beckons you,
As you grasp onto what thoughts remains.
You're so frightened or quick to forget
They're waiting for you just down the river.
"Come a little closer, my little one," it still beckons,
It reaches your soul; you quiver at bone,
Invisible hands reach around your soul,
Caressing it with hopes of being remembered;
The winds stop; suddenly your wishes are known;
"In the end I'm left alone."

The autumn wind wipes tears off your face
As the elderly women beckon you for home.
There's no where left on these cold streets
Or anywhere else you can call your family.
The moon arises with the stars flanking;
It's God's army you see lighting darkness, and you stand still.
Scamper upon the railing, climbing high;
No one's going to bother coming by,
Wrap your coat closer to you and remember that chill;
"The time stands still..."

You wait for hope and hold your breath,
At the forgotten memories you left behind.
The chill sets in as you release your eyes from the Heavens;
Not even He could save you now.
The autumn wind wipes your tears from your face,
As the lantern light swings on your face as you were told;
"There's death in this place."
The women beckon you inside, but no one saves you;
As you rock off the ledge you sing loud and bold,
"...And I am cold."

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Glosa-Verse
A Spanish form invented by court poets in the 14th and 15th centuries. An opening quatrain, called a 'cabeza' is chosen from another poet, or song. The glosa elaborates or 'glosses' on the quatrain with four ten line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain and their sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth. Example is as follows....

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

Not A Day Goes By.

Written by daylight, not a soul disappeared -
with a heart for the lost, and rage for the feared.
How long shall she await the day that you come?
Surely it has been too long; where are you from?
Since not a day goes by, time passes slowly
the look within says " you'll never come for me".
Harsh words implanted inside of each blank page,
scribbles of pain from hearts of fear, loss, and rage.
Written by daylight, not a soul disappeared-
with a heart for the lost, and rage for the feared.

How long shall she await the day that you come?
Surely it has been too long; where are you from?
Proven that societies right, a heartless thief,
taking yet, another hopeless life full of grief.
Surely it is not fair to take her away
from the dreams that she lost in her yesterday(s).
For, her dreams were of you and your promises -
a heart of the lost, with fantasies Bliss.
Written by daylight, not a soul disappeared-
with a heart for the lost, and rage for the feared.

Since not a day goes by, time passes slowly
the look within says " you'll never come for me".
Awaiting the thoughts do that torture the brain,
driving a woman of faith, weak and in pain,
to places of satisfaction - evil are you,
to replace thoughts of kindness, tender and true. . .
The last time of asking - how long shall she wait?
Death is on her side, of which you did create:
Written by daylight, not a soul disappeared-
with a heart for the lost, and rage for the feared.

Fear is only in our minds
Free Verse
Dark, Fantasy, Love, Romance, Nature, Environment

Thanx.. :)

This still going on? Looks splendid!

one more for
Fear is only in our minds
and
Licentia Rhyme

and let's add one to

Explicit, Fun, Humor, Life, Society

I got something really wicked..XD

Fear is only in our minds
Sonnet
Dark, Fantasy, Love, Romance, Nature, Environment

Thank you. :)

Fear is only in our Minds

Playful memories cease to grasp,
The days that rolled over our heads.
We lay down now and stay, aghast,
In our mindful phobias' simple threads.

These fears can no longer break me,
Nor can they harm you again.
Though we've withheld the key,
Things still haunt us now and then.

Inside us we treasure this find:
Fear is only in our minds.

*Humor because it shouldn't be taken too seriously*

"Fear is Only in Our Minds"

Sell your life, conform to society's rules
Or escape knowing you have nothing to lose
Break every convention just to prove you could
Erase the lines between ambition and good
The voices you let in are all you will hear
Cut all ties with the lies and let go of fear
Experience all that your parents deplore
Embrace new lifestyles as though they were yours
Traverse distant shores under subtle night skies
Awake to pained sounds of the wolf-mother's cries
Sell your life, conform to society's rules
Or escape knowing you have nothing to lose

Break every convention just to prove you could
Erase the lines between ambition and good
Make love against the brick of old bathroom walls
Moan loud for those lurking behind nearby stalls
They'll gossip and whisper of crimes you have done
But well you know that's just the start of the fun
Told the right way with a hint of diversion
A dull pointless trek becomes an excursion
Of sexual conquest, with Lucy's diamonds
Sparkling in the eyes of mystics and madmen
Sell your life, conform to society's rules
Or escape knowing you have nothing to lose

The voices you let in are all you will hear
Cut all ties with the lies and let go of fear
Penetrate the fog, breathe the dark in your lungs
Inhale the power of a thousand rough tongues
All speaking at once in buried languages
Gifts of little known secrets from the ancients
Are promised to those who seek out the garden
And appreciate how to befriend the serpent
Within us, taking fire into your hands
Force the world to tremble beneath your demands
Sell your life, conform to society's rules
Or escape knowing you have nothing to lose

We haven`t discussed it yet within the club, once there is more response or if it goes a while without response, I will mention it to the club.

Fear is only in our minds

Phantom fingers of the twilight's breath,
caressing the bane of my paranoia.
Worried of what might happen in death,
I'm trammeled in theatrical hysteria.

Eager ghouls tapped softly on my windows,
anxious to taint the sanity of my dreams.
Upon advent of illusive shadows,
I shut my sleepy eyes to drown in my screams.

Facade footsteps in the silent air,
trailing whispers of abundant voices.
I understand there is nothing there,
but my hectic dementia seem endless.

The nature of my mental misfit,
begins in ethereal absence of the sun.
With soothing lullaby I repeat,
I need no place to hide and nowhere to run.

Ignoring my silent delusion,
my conscious grasp on a truth that rhymes.
Escaping the void of deception,
I realize fear is only in our minds.

If it's OK, I would like to take another ...
Time Stands Still - Sonnet - Nature, Environment, Sadness, Depression, Explicit

I'll try and post it some time today.

~Pete.

Time Stands Still [Sonnet]

Another pitiful day is dawning,
Now is the time to cease with the dreaming.
Rise and shine on this new Monday morning.
Dragged out of slumber, kicking and screaming.

Fast mornings and nights, slow in the middle.
As soon as you arrive at the workplace,
All around you slows down just a little.
Replace the smile with a frown on your face.

Always the same thing day in and day out,
Non-existent to all of your colleagues.
Overworked, underpaid and bossed about.
Depressed and angry but also fatigued.

Need to figure it out or find a way,
To make it through this, it's draining your will.
Force your way past this perpetual day.
Dying inside as the time stands so still!

Body is aching, your head starts to throb.
Another day in this horrible job!

~Pete.

Plz reserve me:

My Unholy Requiem ~ Glosa Verse ~ {Nature, Environment, Sadness, Depression, Explicit}

I don't see a limit on how many each individual can take .. If I am allowed 3 may i also take

Glosa Verse - Not a day goes by - Love, Romance, Dark, Fantasy, Friendship, Family.

Thanks.

~Pete.

Can I reserve:
From Titles: "Time Stands Still"

From Styles "Rispetto"

& From Categories "Explicit, Fun, Humor, Society"

do they have to be new poems or old poems?

My Unholy Requiem

You can see through my soul
beyond black curtains
soaked in gasoline
so I'll throw a match or two
to burn down that treacherous altar.

You can feel my bleeding emotions
that proffer fractured satisfaction...
...that's like prostitution of the heart
so I'll imprison my innerness
into the iron cage of isolation.

You can touch my sable fears
carelessly dropped in filthy corners
of some fusty crypt...
funeral of perfection allure your senses
but attraction to bitter reactions cause perdition.

Awww. Looks like I found it to late. The style and title i want is still available but unfortunately the categories left wouldn't work with it. I'll have to watch for any more contests by you guys. Good luck everyone else!

Hey! Can i reserve one under :
Fun, Humor, Friendship, Family, Life, Society

But just to make sure, you can use a poem that has already been written correct? because this poem is like my all time favorite, but i'm making a few changes to it to make it better.. can i still use it? And then.. when's the deadline?

Yes, you may use an older poem. Hey guys! I am one of the judges. Any questions PM me, Jenna, or Tranquil Musings page. Thank and good luck.

*PLEASE NOTE* Because of a drop out of the site, some things that were full are now open. I saw mentioned that someone said what they wanted was full. If anything I have fixed helps you guys out, by all means, use it!

(Ciao)

And Kristina, what title? No deadline has been set as of now.

Yup! The section I was hoping for has a space. Thank you very much for telling me. I'll take:

Bend me, Break me
Rispetto
and
Love, Romance, Dark, Fantasy, Friendship, Family

Thank you, I'll give it a try! ^.^

:] glad to hear it. Jenna, will you update everything? :] thanks love