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Well, we haven't had one of these in a while, have we? Time for a new one, I say! Welcome, resident poets!
The rules are pretty simple. I am the first judge. I will give you a theme, and you must write a poem relating to the theme. Be creative with your interpretations! I will then judge the entries by a set date, and the winner will then be the next judge, and set the next theme. And so on, and so forth.
The first theme will be... *dramatic drumroll*
Stars! Whether you chose to write about the kind of stars you wish on, or the kind that take the stage, I will be eagerly awaiting your sparkly, shiny, beautiful poems. Have them in by... Saturday, March 18. Two weeks. Sound fair?
I hope to see your poems soon!
~Booksy <3
submitted by Booksy Owly
(March 4, 2017 - 8:58 pm)
(March 4, 2017 - 8:58 pm)
K, here's the actual poem again, thanks for keeping up with my comments, admin XD
Untitled
2020
all those years ago
did you listen to your music while doing your homework
were you a girl in a world just like me
did you put on the radio and hope your songs would be on
did you listen with your eyes closed
wishing this moment would last forever
while your math sat in front of you, ignored
at least for now
all those years ago
did you know the war was almost over
did you know how many millions of people were dying
did you need an escape from the world
did you close your eyes and listen
let the music carry you away
decide you could think about that later
wish you could think about that later
all those years ago
did you do your math homework slowly
pretending the world wasn't falling apart around you
did you lose yourself in the music
did you wish it would never end
when it ended
did you wish it hadn't
did you turn it back on just to let it wash over you
did you close your eyes
did you remember the millions who died already
did you wish you could bring them all back
did you wish none of this had ever happened
all those years ago
did you know the nightmare was almost over
did you know it would go down in history
did you know any of them
did you miss any of them
did you close your eyes and try not to cry
did you
1945
in a hundred years
will you look back
will you be a girl in the world just like me
will you turn on the radio and hope your songs will be on
or will you not have to
will you turn on your songs
will you even have to wait
will you listen with your eyes closed anyways
wishing it would last forever
math homework in front of you ignored
in a hundred years
will you know how many died
will you know when it ended
will you know how it ended
will you need an escape from the world
will millions be dying
will your life be anything like mine
will you know my name
in a hundred years
will you close your eyes and wish it would never end
but when it does, will you turn it back on
will you turn it on even if you don’t like the next song
just to ignore everything
not just the math on your desk
will you turn it back on so you don’t have to think about it
about whatever’s going on in your mind
in a hundred years
will you be thinking about me
will you know who i am
will you wonder why all this happened
will you know that i knew a dead person
will you know i loved a dead person
will you care
will you lose yourself in the music and remember that it happened
will you wonder what i was thinking as the world fell down around our shoulders
will you be living your own nightmare
will you
~~
Okay, so I think I love this one, does anyone have feedback and/or title ideas? I wrote this while thinking about World War II and Hiroshima and the Holocaust and other depressing things like that... my grandpa gave me three WW2 books for Christmas XD... but anyways, what do you think? I'm not sure how well it fits the theme either, but... yeah!
(December 29, 2020 - 7:51 pm)
Oh my gosh, Lumi. That was really, really good.
(December 29, 2020 - 8:06 pm)
I like this one, too.
It has that sort of a slow-burn type of melancholy wistfulness, that still feels personal while at the same time seems too far away all the while. I also love the repetition of the questions, and how each set leans on the other to fit into a whole.
(December 30, 2020 - 12:07 am)
Wow, that was... haunting. I had to read it a few times over. It gave me chills, the way that it flipped persepctives. Good job :)
(December 30, 2020 - 11:23 pm)
Haunting Melody~
A series
of flats
sharps
minor
keys
Staring up
at the stars
above
The gloom
spreads
across
me
Thousands
of lights
are dimmed
My soul
shall
be pierced
but will live
on
forever
in the realm
we call
Music.
(*Author's Note -- Sorry this is kinda depressing! I've been undergoing depression for awhile now. So. Um. Yeah. Im just gonna gooooooo *disappears*)
--Nightfall DreamFire
(December 31, 2020 - 12:48 am)
Don't apologise, this is beautiful!
(January 10, 2021 - 6:56 pm)
these veins sing with untold stories
every day i carry lost melodies in my blood
there is a symphony in every flick of my hand
but what good are these beautiful tunes
if i am never brave enough to share them?
(December 31, 2020 - 9:40 am)
(January 6, 2021 - 11:30 am)
The sound
Still haunts me to this day
More than
The searing tongues of flame,
More than the crunch and shredding of glass
Even more than
The thoughts that spiral endlessly
Through my head--
Because I know I could have saved you
The sound
Of cascading falls, from the piano a stream of notes
Pouring from
Your dancing fingers, piercing the cold night
And our hearts;
Somewhat like a lighthouse guiding lost ships
Yes, perhaps we
Were all lost ships, wandering about in a murky fog
All mindless
All saved by your mysterious existence
All the more a reminder--
I could have saved you
The sound
Still rings through my soul, with rippling waves of rhyming-flourishes,
Chaos subsiding--
Or so we thought. But we were wrong. Oh, so wrong.
And yet
Who could have known or predicted that that night, like your song
That moonlight
Cursed song would come to such a stunningly tragic end?
I should've known--
I could have saved you
That sound
A precursor, it should've been enough a warning
Alas all we needed
Was to put two and two together to see what was happening
And yet
We still couldn't have imagined what was next to come
When suddenly
Your signature moonlit-stained notes thrummed through the night itself
It should've all been over
But on you played, fingers gracing lacquered bars, mixing black and white
Until the somber end--
If only I had known then I could've saved you
(January 10, 2021 - 6:54 pm)
(January 10, 2021 - 10:24 pm)
the music of your voice lingers in my ears
the perfect way you enunciate your words, the crisp sound of your accent, the magical timbre of your stories
the way i could get lost in your voice forever, listen to it eternally
even if you're no longer here to speak
the music of your laugh lingers in my belly
the way you'd laugh with your whole body, like there was nothing sad in the world, like even the smallest things were miracles
the way it always makes me feel warm
even if you're no longer here to perform it
the music of your love lingers in my heart
how you'd go out of your way to make me happy, how you'd smile at me from across the room and your whole face would light up, how you'd make me feel like i was the only person in the world
how you'd never let me forget that you loved me
even if you're no longer here
(January 11, 2021 - 1:58 pm)
Kitten, you made my soul hurt.
Thank you.
(January 11, 2021 - 10:17 pm)
(January 12, 2021 - 8:27 pm)
(January 14, 2021 - 12:15 pm)
I know I'm late, but the judging hasn't happened yet, so I figured I may as well submit it and see if it gets judged. Please accept my sincere apologies and also this little acrostic :)
magicians never reveal their secrets, they say, and we
used to sit under your fairy lights with all the lights turned off,
sprawled out with your legs in my lap and your lights in my hair and your music
in the air between us like some kind of perfect harmony-- you never
could explain chord progressions to me but I understood this just fine.
(January 14, 2021 - 12:33 pm)