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Poetry Contest!
Poetry Contest!
I know this should go in the Inkwell, but I have a feeling that it will die really fast if it's there.
So, as the name says, this is a poetry contest. There will be two levels, because I want more people to have a chance to win. I'll be in the second level, because I honestly don't stand a chance against some of you. The first level will be for the masters of writing, and the second level will be for us apprentices to have a shot, too.
So I'm entering the lower level, and I'll judge the higher level.
Masters of writing, your theme for your poem is:
Sorrow.
Can be free verse, rhyme, haiku, anything as long as it has to do with sorrow.
submitted by Mei-xie (May-shyeh)
(April 10, 2016 - 12:07 pm)
(April 10, 2016 - 12:07 pm)
Yes, YES, YES! I'm entering the higher level. I suppose I qualify, because poetry is my life. FYI, this was written months ago, but it seems to fit the qualifications. If it isn't the sorrow you were looking for, please let me know so that I can write another one.
NIGHT WORDS
(April 10, 2016 - 2:29 pm)
TOP!
Rosy says "wire." I think she's building a device to defeat EVIL (it's about time)!
(April 10, 2016 - 2:30 pm)
TOP again! To the top!
(April 10, 2016 - 2:31 pm)
I'll be a regular apprentice-level. I hope it is the kind of sorrow you are looking for:
War
Peace is broken, fear is spread
Young lives and hopes and dreams are smashed
The mourners weep beside fresh graves
Is it the right choice?
Gold and rubies, red as blood
Won with splendid victories
The sweethearts weep beside fresh graves
Is it the right choice?
(April 10, 2016 - 3:23 pm)
YAY I LOVE POEMS!!!!! I would like to enter the masters level 1.
Tears that fall like raindrops
Eyes misted and grey
her hands clutch at her heart
Trying to squeeze out the pain
Gasping
Crying
Dying
Brought to her knees
doubled over in submission
Submission to the sorrow
She can't fight
Curled on the floor
A pool of tears
(April 10, 2016 - 4:05 pm)
So... Leaf, you realize what an apprentice is, right? Well anyway, I'm an apprentice to no one, but that's the level I'll be entering in. I don't deserve Master's Level. I need to think up a poem, though. Expect my return!! *cloak wooshes*
(April 10, 2016 - 4:49 pm)
@ ShoshannaLily:
The theme for the lower level won't be the same as the higher level. We need someone to judge the lower level and then they'll choose the topic.
(April 10, 2016 - 5:00 pm)
Can I judge Lower? I'm entering Masters, and just submitted my poem.
(April 10, 2016 - 5:32 pm)
May I judge the lower level? If so, the poem topic will be similar to sorrow: "shattering." Lots of things can shatter. Glass. Souls. Friendships. Lives. If I become the judge (for the lower level), I would love to hear your best poem about something shattering, breaking, crashing, splintering, etc. Go ahead and me metaphorical! Get creative!
(April 10, 2016 - 6:03 pm)
Thanks so much for this, Mei! I love poetry, and I shall enter Masters because I like a challenge.
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Run
The world disappears,
Fading away from my tearsoaked
Eyes—
I can't see, I can't
Feel, only dimly aware am I of
The pounding:
My heart.
Leaping, froglike, against
My rising—
Falling—
(rising again)
Chest,
The wetness that is flowing
Freely down my cheeks, dripping slightly
Into my gasping mouth, threatening to choke
My already fragile breaths—
Feet,
Bare and soft,
Pounding hard against
The ground,
One after the
Other: Left, right, left, right,
Left—
I'm not thinking, not
Controlling,
Yet
(somehow)
I'm running,
Moving,
Trying,
To escape
The sadness that presses upon me
Keeping pace with my every step.
(April 10, 2016 - 5:31 pm)
@ Scylla…
No, you're being modest. If you enter the lower level, none of us will stand a chance. Please, do us a favor and enter the higher level.
Also, I know what an apprentice is, that was just a joke.
(April 10, 2016 - 6:47 pm)
Oops! Sorry Abigail! I did not know that you had asked to be a judge as well. Go ahead!
(April 10, 2016 - 7:59 pm)
Fangs. And. Talons. I'm an awful poet! Most of my poems turn out to be some kind of mangled song. I'm still thinking my entry out, but I've got a rough draft going on. Maybe I'll change it, maybe I won't I got no idea. But since you asked me to, I'll move up. Only because you asked me to.
(April 11, 2016 - 9:59 pm)
I don't know what level to be in. Probably the lower one... prose is more of my thing. But I'd just like a recommendation from one of you...
(April 10, 2016 - 7:08 pm)
Ohhh okay! Sorry. I'll write another poem later when the them has been decided, but can you keep my poem in the masters' level as well? It porbably will be shattered to bits but I just want to see how it does.
Another idea (please forgive me for being pushy if it comes across that way) but could there be second and third place winners as well?
I share too many ideas sometimes so I apologize if I appear to be bossy or like I'm taking over :).
(April 10, 2016 - 7:23 pm)