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Oh, glorious day, it's poetry contest time!
Here are the conditions:
I hope to see a lot of entries!
If you need a prompt:
Important: YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN POEM.
===============POEM SUBMISSIONS TO VOTE ON START HERE=================
Untitled #1
Two lines, 4 words only. Last word of first and second lines must rhyme. When I said low standards I meant that it's non Bobby Frost quality. The rudeness can certainly come later
. Here goes, starting simple.
My life,
no wife
There, very polite but not gonna win any prize. AN example of something close, but no cigar would be
Love Ukraine
Russia blame
Because the last syllables of Ukraine and blame do not match, although they sound rhymey.
Eat cheese
giant wheeze
The last two words of each line match according to my description but it's nonsensical it that's it's not a linear or particularly informative 2 line poem (I would ask myself if the guy has an allergy to cheese or some kind of pre-existing cough). Leaving the reader to puzzle. It should be a gut punch of informative description that screams 'Get this guy to a doctor quick'. Alcohol fuelled this one a long time ago
Deteriorating
you ask me not to ash my cigarette so forcefully
i try to apologize but it’s been so long since i’ve spoken that nothing comes out
i don’t try saying it a second time and it feels like i’m ignoring you
but i do try to be more mindful of the noise
we’re both crying
Untitled #2
Stop searching, for the answer has been actualized
From the inside it has already been realized
Search and you will find
The solidarity of mind
Glass Hearts
Heaven's western wind lost intense eyes on silent goodbyes.
Because it’s hard to say, “Oh well, OK.”
Talk about it. Discuss? Even arguing is better than nothing.
I am unable to climb mountains in braille.
The attempts were rotten, plotting a 20-foot drop.
Do you recall simply grasping hands?
Why was I so certain? Supplied errors?
Fallen from grace or suckers for slowly leaving?
You kept me alive; I can’t resuscitate or participate any longer.
It's a glass house, a stone throw, and a drop-in.
Define God. Polar opposite.
Have you vanished? Lasting?
Love is lost, blooming on a grave.
Roses in black silk laud a call—a Hallmark-approved moment.
Has existence ever been so bittersweet?
Safety Sea, true twenty-two-stricken disgust.
Sliced lips, dirty quips.
Complete, a secured “investment.”
"words"
words
they enter your mind
twisting open the faucet
mainlining the worst looking vein
words become your thoughts
crawling across your mind
without them you would be alone
they travel in undocumented groups
guiding you home at night
the insane have plenty for everyone
the most insane have run out of them
describing a mixture of poisons
you will hear an endless amount of them
just before you hit the water
giving eulogy to the wayward mouse
or a caption below a funny cartoon
they will be the most famous ever spoken
and the last thing you will ever hear;
a bunch of wildly inarticulate,
beautifully deadly
words.
the only hope you've ever had to describe any of this.
Untitled #3
BAD apples, clean carrots for the win
Bathtub gin consume the oxygen
I’ve grown tired of breathing
But that don’t mean I’m leaving.
Rewind the site and stage a fight
Then think it through a sleepless night
Hyrule will command otherwise
There’s plenty of room for compromise.
A walk along
A pine needle carpet
Changes everything
In the home of crusty
Bark lined spirits
Whose tops sing
With the breeze
I need to learn
The type of moss
That dresses their branches
Is it lichen that colors
The granite a sagely mint
That could never really
Be recreated
Is it Birch? Or Aspen?
That grow together?
With their white paper
Silhouettes
The perfect highlight
Amongst the browns
And greens and grays
Of the forest
How do you tell a space
I LOVE YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
This is a space that
Doesn’t wonder, or fret
What I felt in return
To shouting such gratitude
Was an omnipresent
Ebb and flow of breath…
Here are the conditions:
- 34-line maximum
- Entries must remain anonymous until the contest ends
- One entry per user
- Please send them in a private message to me
- It ends 10th February 2024, at midnight PST
I hope to see a lot of entries!
If you need a prompt:
- Write a poem about the power of language to transform minds and hearts.
Important: YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN POEM.
===============POEM SUBMISSIONS TO VOTE ON START HERE=================
Untitled #1
Two lines, 4 words only. Last word of first and second lines must rhyme. When I said low standards I meant that it's non Bobby Frost quality. The rudeness can certainly come later
. Here goes, starting simple.My life,
no wife
There, very polite but not gonna win any prize. AN example of something close, but no cigar would be
Love Ukraine
Russia blame
Because the last syllables of Ukraine and blame do not match, although they sound rhymey.
Eat cheese
giant wheeze
The last two words of each line match according to my description but it's nonsensical it that's it's not a linear or particularly informative 2 line poem (I would ask myself if the guy has an allergy to cheese or some kind of pre-existing cough). Leaving the reader to puzzle. It should be a gut punch of informative description that screams 'Get this guy to a doctor quick'.
Alcohol fuelled this one a long time agoDeteriorating
you ask me not to ash my cigarette so forcefully
i try to apologize but it’s been so long since i’ve spoken that nothing comes out
i don’t try saying it a second time and it feels like i’m ignoring you
but i do try to be more mindful of the noise
we’re both crying
Untitled #2
Stop searching, for the answer has been actualized
From the inside it has already been realized
Search and you will find
The solidarity of mind
Glass Hearts
Heaven's western wind lost intense eyes on silent goodbyes.
Because it’s hard to say, “Oh well, OK.”
Talk about it. Discuss? Even arguing is better than nothing.
I am unable to climb mountains in braille.
The attempts were rotten, plotting a 20-foot drop.
Do you recall simply grasping hands?
Why was I so certain? Supplied errors?
Fallen from grace or suckers for slowly leaving?
You kept me alive; I can’t resuscitate or participate any longer.
It's a glass house, a stone throw, and a drop-in.
Define God. Polar opposite.
Have you vanished? Lasting?
Love is lost, blooming on a grave.
Roses in black silk laud a call—a Hallmark-approved moment.
Has existence ever been so bittersweet?
Safety Sea, true twenty-two-stricken disgust.
Sliced lips, dirty quips.
Complete, a secured “investment.”
"words"
words
they enter your mind
twisting open the faucet
mainlining the worst looking vein
words become your thoughts
crawling across your mind
without them you would be alone
they travel in undocumented groups
guiding you home at night
the insane have plenty for everyone
the most insane have run out of them
describing a mixture of poisons
you will hear an endless amount of them
just before you hit the water
giving eulogy to the wayward mouse
or a caption below a funny cartoon
they will be the most famous ever spoken
and the last thing you will ever hear;
a bunch of wildly inarticulate,
beautifully deadly
words.
the only hope you've ever had to describe any of this.
Untitled #3
BAD apples, clean carrots for the win
Bathtub gin consume the oxygen
I’ve grown tired of breathing
But that don’t mean I’m leaving.
Rewind the site and stage a fight
Then think it through a sleepless night
Hyrule will command otherwise
There’s plenty of room for compromise.
A Soak in the Forest
A walk along
A pine needle carpet
Changes everything
In the home of crusty
Bark lined spirits
Whose tops sing
With the breeze
I need to learn
The type of moss
That dresses their branches
Is it lichen that colors
The granite a sagely mint
That could never really
Be recreated
Is it Birch? Or Aspen?
That grow together?
With their white paper
Silhouettes
The perfect highlight
Amongst the browns
And greens and grays
Of the forest
How do you tell a space
I LOVE YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
This is a space that
Doesn’t wonder, or fret
What I felt in return
To shouting such gratitude
Was an omnipresent
Ebb and flow of breath…
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