Poetry competition CLOSED 27th February 2010 8:14pm
WINNER
rayheinrich (Death Plane for Teddy)
rayheinrich (Death Plane for Teddy)
RUNNERS-UP:
CruelHandedWriter
and diddi
competition 'My writing'
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Brave
I'd like to write about being brave
first I thought
don't know much about this
then I realised
I'm brave just to be sitting here
every breath I take
is brave
the pain as I write
bearing that hurt
is brave
freely surrendering
every last word
now there's real bravery.
I'd like to write about being brave
first I thought
don't know much about this
then I realised
I'm brave just to be sitting here
every breath I take
is brave
the pain as I write
bearing that hurt
is brave
freely surrendering
every last word
now there's real bravery.
I write not only because i want to,
but because i have to.
My poetry is my talent,
I don't have many others.
Poetry is my dream,
and my body is usually sleeping.
Poetry is my addiction,
I need those words,
rhyme or not,
to make me high for the day.
Poetry guides me to happiness,
The words form together as my map,
my map of life.
Poetry is my gifted talent,
just like my wings.
So i write about what comes from my heart,
as i fly through time
x
but because i have to.
My poetry is my talent,
I don't have many others.
Poetry is my dream,
and my body is usually sleeping.
Poetry is my addiction,
I need those words,
rhyme or not,
to make me high for the day.
Poetry guides me to happiness,
The words form together as my map,
my map of life.
Poetry is my gifted talent,
just like my wings.
So i write about what comes from my heart,
as i fly through time
x
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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My two entries:
|
|
| < all i can give you >
|
| The rats of a good purpose,
| run away. I enter this in the
| logbook, and i know you will
| be checking on me. But i know
| a lot. More than you think.
| Maybe enough. I enter this in
| the logbook too. And then, i
| give up, and change the logbook
| into this poem. Knowing you
| will check it too. And here
| you are, reading this. So see,
| i was right. Now maybe i asked
| you to read this; and maybe i
| didn't. Maybe, i want to invite
| you in. Here, have this food
| and drink made into words.
| You see, no matter how much i
| might love you, all i can give
| you are these words.
|
| - - -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| < gray >
|
|
| the world outside is real
| and can be described
| in those terms
|
| but
|
| we live in here
|
| inside
|
| in the landscape
| of where
| our life is a story
|
| where magic is real
| and
| available
|
| and a single word
| can make
|
| you
|
| or you can vanish
|
|
| a key
|
| pressed
|
| in the late afternoon
|
| can leave you
|
| gone
|
|
|
| painted out like white on white
|
| or
|
| like gray
|
| (if you prefer it that way)
|
| on gray
|
|
| - - -
|
Take twenty five grams
of rolling tobacco,
all the trimmings
and a six pack
of tall beers.
Then realise,
once the throne is set
that you'd be much better
in the pubs,
reeling off interruptions
as the punters
swallow each other.
This guarantees
a constant flow
of inspiration
straight from the town's
gutters.
Otherwise the mind
is allowed to spare
a few moments
to dress up the word
until every line
verges on becoming
a floral metaphore
for something that should
be left
to make us sick.
This is the way
the pen works.
Away from the dancers
and scenic artists
of literature
and closer towards
the back-alley brawls
and the ripped
short skirts
of decency's
rape victims.
of rolling tobacco,
all the trimmings
and a six pack
of tall beers.
Then realise,
once the throne is set
that you'd be much better
in the pubs,
reeling off interruptions
as the punters
swallow each other.
This guarantees
a constant flow
of inspiration
straight from the town's
gutters.
Otherwise the mind
is allowed to spare
a few moments
to dress up the word
until every line
verges on becoming
a floral metaphore
for something that should
be left
to make us sick.
This is the way
the pen works.
Away from the dancers
and scenic artists
of literature
and closer towards
the back-alley brawls
and the ripped
short skirts
of decency's
rape victims.
Will you come with me
on these travels
Inside, my mind, my heart
as it unravels.
Take note, take heart
there's plenty so
Like it or not
away we now go.
To visit the lands
of this mind
To see which or what
we can find.
Up and inside the
Tower of Rapture,
Where happiness stays
in blissful capture.
The Despair Dungeons
down below
Where the black heart
crawls to.
And of course the
Castle of Content
And its creative
rhyming couplet.
This is the kingdom
of words
Filled with peotic
high lords.
These are the places
you could go
If you just care to
see the show.
on these travels
Inside, my mind, my heart
as it unravels.
Take note, take heart
there's plenty so
Like it or not
away we now go.
To visit the lands
of this mind
To see which or what
we can find.
Up and inside the
Tower of Rapture,
Where happiness stays
in blissful capture.
The Despair Dungeons
down below
Where the black heart
crawls to.
And of course the
Castle of Content
And its creative
rhyming couplet.
This is the kingdom
of words
Filled with peotic
high lords.
These are the places
you could go
If you just care to
see the show.
My Prose ( to jinty )
Sometimes I am cryptic
other times analytic
on occasion
a sceptic
or a Long Wave station
thats hard to get
some feel the abbrasion
others like the invasion
A lot can make the calculation
for the given equation
you
plus a few
say the word
enigmatic
Ive also heard from
insanely absurd
to painfully systematic
and in jocularity
a kind of empathetic
also an imagery
of aesthetic
most times though
I think only you'll know
I can be
biographic .
Sometimes I am cryptic
other times analytic
on occasion
a sceptic
or a Long Wave station
thats hard to get
some feel the abbrasion
others like the invasion
A lot can make the calculation
for the given equation
you
plus a few
say the word
enigmatic
Ive also heard from
insanely absurd
to painfully systematic
and in jocularity
a kind of empathetic
also an imagery
of aesthetic
most times though
I think only you'll know
I can be
biographic .
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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