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New poetry competition!
New poetry competition!
It's really just continuing the last one, but I don't think a whole lot of people are checking that thread anymore. So here goes--
The new theme is music! You can write about how music makes you feel, or what it is. You can write about a musical instrument, or playing in part of an ensemble... or Hamilton...
Anyway, be creative, and have fun!
(I will be judging on Wednesday the nineteenth of October, so please have them submitted before then :)
submitted by Shoshannah Lily, Deep in a book
(October 12, 2016 - 5:09 pm)
(October 12, 2016 - 5:09 pm)
I'll enter something soon.
(December 14, 2016 - 9:13 am)
I plan to enter, but honestly, I may forget. Hopefully I don't, though! XD
~Poetic Panda
(December 14, 2016 - 7:07 pm)
(December 16, 2016 - 3:03 pm)
TOP!!!!
(December 18, 2016 - 2:49 pm)
I'm working on my entry.
(December 18, 2016 - 11:42 pm)
Still working on it...
(December 19, 2016 - 3:30 pm)
Still working on it...
(December 19, 2016 - 3:30 pm)
When's the date?
(December 19, 2016 - 3:39 pm)
Can it be based off of a book?
(December 19, 2016 - 3:58 pm)
The topic is drowning, right? I'll post something! I probably won't win. This just came off of the top of my head. But whatever!
~~~
Can't you hear me?
I'm calling out for you!
Help, can't you hear?!
The salt is parching my throat- hurry!
I haven't got much time left.
The water is filling up my lungs- fast!
I'm being dragged down, my legs are numb,
Why can't anyone hear me?
My head can't stay up much longer-
My hands can't keep waving forever!
Why aren't you coming? I thought you would,
After all, you did say you loved me- not anymore?
Please, I need help, please, don't just run away.
Don't just stand there, for goodness' sake,
Do something! I need you! Right. Now.
Yes, now. The water's pulling me- oh, now I'm under.
And yet you still don't come? Oh, what else could I expect?
I shouldn't have done that, yet it's too late.
I told you not to come- it's not your fault.
It's just- I've changed my mind, and now it's too late.
Oh, well. Good-bye, then, I'll see you when you die.
~~~
Oh, wow, this is so bad. I just made it up as I went along!
(December 19, 2016 - 5:20 pm)
That's actually pretty good. I myself just make up my own poetry as I'm moving along, then go back once to revise it.
(December 19, 2016 - 6:24 pm)
Here's my first draft. It's based off of the book Thornghost by Tone Almhjell. It's pretty fantastic; I definitely reccommend it. My poetry is so amateurish.
We rowed across the moonlight lake,
The three of us,
Sebastifer,
And
The cage.
Water fills the fragile boat
We bail it out
As we did before
But
No hope.
My friends escaped, swam to shore
But I did not
The cage went under
And
I followed.
I could never let it sink
I must get it
Safely away
But
It's stuck.
My breath is slipping away
I need the cage
I need to live
Can't
Leave it.
Strong jaws fasten around me
Sebastifer
Drags me upward
To
The surface.
I'm alive but I am lost
I am alone
Sebastifer
Is
Gone...
My heart has drowned with my dog
The cage will haunt me
Until I die
I
Am
Thornghost.
(December 20, 2016 - 12:21 am)
Rain
Steel carcass, isn't it
Grand, gianificent
Disonnence is now the song
Your rain shall follow 'fore long.
Steal corpses, wouldn't you,
Plans never all full-truth
Dishonesty the game is played
Dreams never to be made.
Cold rain be,
Drowning me.
(Sorry that doesn't make much sense. This poem is told from the perspective of some sort of omniscient being at the bottom of the ocean when the Titanic sank, speaking to death)
(December 21, 2016 - 11:54 am)
(December 21, 2016 - 4:42 pm)
I suppose I'll juge on the 23rd, if that's all right.
(December 21, 2016 - 4:46 pm)