Warmth

You cover me during the darkness

You feed me strength through the rough

You protect me from the world around me

You sheild me from danger

You hug me for comfort

Warmth, you are my all; the warmth from the cold

I love you

I think this is a haiku????

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You can say warmth is

Fire, tea, but I know this:

Warmth is really love.

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Ugh, I forgot how bad I am at this =_=

I can't tell if I'm worse at rapping or poetry.

To says eep az. A to Z=words (I guess) Sooo....eep words? ARE YOU INSULTING MY RAPPING SKILLS, TOFIX? 

Searching

for a patch of sun.

Looking

for a place to be.

Outside 

of the tree's shadow.

I search, 

but it's not there.

I look,

all's bathed in shadow.

Outside,

where I don't belong.

So I

go back home and I

walk in

to my home where I

am in

my own patch of sun. 

I'm going to try to enter! Come on, let's keep this thread on the first page!

This isn't my best work ever, but it's all I could come up with, so I thought I might as well submit it anyway.

Wasteland of Sadness (a triolet)

In my wasteland of sadness, I see

your warm happy presence come in

and cheer me up. Poor little me

in my wasteland of sadness. I see

your arms wrap tight tight around me

in the coziest hug there has been.

In my wasteland of sadness, I see

your warm happy presence. Come in!

Honourable mention: Jubilee, to be honest, haikus just sort of bother me, it usually feels like the idea isn't completely developed, but you actually did very well with yours. Even though it's considerably shorter than a lot of the other entries, you still got the idea across, with a nice rhythmic and strong final line, which I do admire quite a bit.

Fourth place: Chikadee, I enjoyed the repetition of "you (adjective) me..." until the very last line, I like the impact and sort of interest it piques sort of unconsciously. It finishes off with a nice, sweet ending, which isn't really my style, but it's still really cool.

Third Place: Kitten, even though your poem and Zahava's had completely different feels, they're actually pretty similar in a way; which made it a bit difficult to put one above the other. I think that the sort of light in the darkness, or warmth in the sadness, in this case, was a very thoughtful expression of the theme, even if it was a fairly basic portrayal. I also liked the more unique style of lines and sort of change in the speaker's tone by the end of the poem.

Second place: Zahava S., I really like your interpretation, and the slightly choppy line structure. It gave a rather simplistic feel, which seemed very fitting, like the scampering if an animal; and I don't know if that's what you were aiming at, but I got the impression that it was a cat looking for a spot to bask in the sun. I really love your style of poetry from what I've seen so far and would like to see more!

First place: aqua! Your poem had a lot of interesting elements that I appreciated. I loved the rhythm and imagery; and the repetition of the themes of "warmth," and movement, with words like "snowflakes/fall," "embers flitting," "falling on a cold breeze and fading;" as well as duality, with the warm and cold contrast. Haha, I just really like being able to visualise poems and scenes, but also have an emotional impact, and yours, in my opinion, did that very well.

Awesome work everybody!

Everything was a joy to read, although I always sort of struggle in balancing which goes in what order, mainly, the reason being that just because I placed a poem lower or higher doesn't mean that it's inherently "better" or "worse" and honestly, if I come back later, my list would probably be different. >__<

But I look forward to seeing all of your poems in the next round!

Ciao~

TOP!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHH! I won??? Thanks so much! I forgot all about this, sorry! I might be horrible at judging xD

The next theme is Starlight, because that's the first word that came up in my mind

Judging is two weeks from now, September 19th! Good luck everyone. I'll try not to forget @-@

I know I'm the judge but I felt in the mood to make some starlight poetry. Hmm poetry is harder than it seems. I tried twice. For some reason my mind wants to write romance poems. (The second one) Well, that's not nessicarily a bad thing, I just wonder why.

A shooting star

Flys*

Across the sky

Then falls

Into the horizon

The moment that I saw it

Wonder was born in my heart,

And even though it vanished,

The memory will never depart. 

It's kind of interesting how the poem's rhythm changes, like in the beginning it was more floaty and then it started ryhming towards the end and ends with a period. I don't know if I like the inconsistincy but I guess it's fine?                                                                                 

*I spelled it wrong originally, fixed it, but then liked the "flys" better for some reason xD

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Watching the skies with you

Naming the stars

The feel of grass

brushing against our skin*

The feel of your hand in mine

Lying down,

Looking up at the sky

It was just you, the stars and I

In a vast universe, you and I

Were alone together

*"our skin"?? I actually added the fourth line after I wrote this 'cause I thought I wanted the "feel of grass" to be more specific and was going to write "my skin" but wrote this instead. Kinda weird but I think I'll keep it. 

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Oh also about the first one I actually have no idea what a shooting star is like. So I was just writing from imagination, there might be inaccuracies. Like, maybe shooting stars last more than just for a moment and maybe they fade before they disappear into the horizon. I honestly have no idea xD 

(Another thing, more random, I was imagining Mina Ashido for some reason while writing these. Not like I think she goes with the poems, just that a person was experiencing these poems and my brain was like "Mina". lol) 

Okay I need to stop adding afterthoughts but the original "Poetry Contest" post was talking about Stars too. I didn't check to see if we've also done that theme recently oops--

Stars

are alone

in the sky,

burning,

with anger,

ambition.

But somehow

they exude

happiness,

serenity,

and that

is what

we call starlight.

Starlight

is happiness,

stars,

unhappiness,

but somehow

I’d rather

be a star.