Poetry competition CLOSED 13th September 2013 3:44pm
WINNER
4everheartbroken (Demons_In_My_Head)
4everheartbroken (Demons_In_My_Head)
RUNNERS-UP:
forgodsake
and pseudonymous
Your style
Send Me a Bottle
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
I caught my tears
Put’em in a bottle
I wrote your name on it
Tomorrow I’ll toss it in the sea
Maybe it’ll wash up to your toes
The next time they’re in the ocean
What will you do with these tears of mine
Will you bring them to me
Give them back
And use them to mend this broken heart
Wear them around your neck
Close to your heart
Add your own tears to that bottle
I sent you
I left enough room
So our tears could entangle
With each other
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
Catch your tears
Put’em in a bottle
Write my name on it
And toss it in the sea
May they wash up and touch my toes
When I put’em in the ocean
What will I do with these tears of yours
I’ll be on my way
To bring them back
And mend that heart I broke
Wear them around my neck on the way
Close to my heart, as you already and always are
I’ll entangle my tears with yours
If you leave me enough room
I’ll take extra care
And treat’em with love
For now and ever
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
I caught my tears
Put’em in a bottle
I wrote your name on it
Tomorrow I’ll toss it in the sea
Maybe it’ll wash up to your toes
The next time they’re in the ocean
What will you do with these tears of mine
Will you bring them to me
Give them back
And use them to mend this broken heart
Wear them around your neck
Close to your heart
Add your own tears to that bottle
I sent you
I left enough room
So our tears could entangle
With each other
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
Catch your tears
Put’em in a bottle
Write my name on it
And toss it in the sea
May they wash up and touch my toes
When I put’em in the ocean
What will I do with these tears of yours
I’ll be on my way
To bring them back
And mend that heart I broke
Wear them around my neck on the way
Close to my heart, as you already and always are
I’ll entangle my tears with yours
If you leave me enough room
I’ll take extra care
And treat’em with love
For now and ever
I wanna go home
Wherever that is
I don’t know
But I wanna go home
Home where you can always heal a broken heart
A place to dry those tears
Or catch them in a bottle
Toss them in the sea
In my arms
The rain was falling in the night,
we sat together and you cried,
you were in love with him so long,
I consoled you, I felt so wrong.
Your tears were falling down as well,
I went trough heaven, you trough hell.
You grabbed my hand, I grabbed your arm.
You were so cold, I felt so warm.
Your heart was broken and destroyed,
I felt so bad, yet overjoyed
to feel you in my arms, so weak.
Your soul was frozen and so bleak.
You looked me in the eye and I
couldn't help but also start to cry.
I pressed your head against my chest,
so you could lay it down and rest.
My heart was broken and destroyed,
I felt so bad, I felt so void.
To see you smile, I'd gladly die,
but I would only see you cry.
The rain was falling in the night,
we sat together and you cried,
you were in love with him so long,
I consoled you, I felt so wrong.
Your tears were falling down as well,
I went trough heaven, you trough hell.
You grabbed my hand, I grabbed your arm.
You were so cold, I felt so warm.
Your heart was broken and destroyed,
I felt so bad, yet overjoyed
to feel you in my arms, so weak.
Your soul was frozen and so bleak.
You looked me in the eye and I
couldn't help but also start to cry.
I pressed your head against my chest,
so you could lay it down and rest.
My heart was broken and destroyed,
I felt so bad, I felt so void.
To see you smile, I'd gladly die,
but I would only see you cry.
Anonymous
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" cutting"
A place so empty
it can't hold my pain
so deep-seeded
within my brain
fiery tears
they burn my face
I run head long
to a dark embrace
sweet pain
along my arms
I surcome to
the razors charms
oh, sweet blood
I let you flow
I tell my secrets
that only you know
swept away
by torments call
I'll close my eyes
and surrender all
A place so empty
it can't hold my pain
so deep-seeded
within my brain
fiery tears
they burn my face
I run head long
to a dark embrace
sweet pain
along my arms
I surcome to
the razors charms
oh, sweet blood
I let you flow
I tell my secrets
that only you know
swept away
by torments call
I'll close my eyes
and surrender all
Northern Stillness
Well north of the bustling city
before the crackle of night’s winter fire,
hard hats, black backs and frozen fingers
shiver starkly in time with their iron picks
sharp strikes upon the icy earth,
shattering the frozen northern stillness.
Well north of the bustling city
before the crackle of night’s winter fire,
hard hats, black backs and frozen fingers
shiver starkly in time with their iron picks
sharp strikes upon the icy earth,
shattering the frozen northern stillness.
Anonymous
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Never Again...
You: Loved me.
Me: I loved you.
You: Didn't like who I've become and how I've changed.
Changed: That's all I've done in your eyes.
Eyes: The one thing that I see of you at night.
Night. The one place where I feel comfort.
Comfort: The one thing I always felt when I was with you.
You: Love me.
Me: I loved you, but what you did was too much and things will never be the same.
Same: Never again..
Never again...........
You: Loved me.
Me: I loved you.
You: Didn't like who I've become and how I've changed.
Changed: That's all I've done in your eyes.
Eyes: The one thing that I see of you at night.
Night. The one place where I feel comfort.
Comfort: The one thing I always felt when I was with you.
You: Love me.
Me: I loved you, but what you did was too much and things will never be the same.
Same: Never again..
Never again...........
Anonymous
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I don't play favourites and I don't have time to go through all my pieces but here's what I've got:
When Mind and Matter Mix
A susurrus
between this world
and my next
Everyone of my solitary sessions
comes with a myriad of questions
and leaves me with the impression
that I'll never find the words
for my confessions
It's a nasty twist of fate
that's left these feelings on my plate,
emotions more complex than love or sorrow
and definitely not hate
I have a rage to scorch the halls of hell
and tears to douse the sun,
an apathy that knows no bounds
and little understanding of the word fun
I have an erratic lust,
an unending trust
and a heart primed to be broken
by the slightest of gust
I'm lost in this world
forever open to any of the shit that gets hurled,
watching and waiting
as my life is unfurled.
When Mind and Matter Mix
A susurrus
between this world
and my next
Everyone of my solitary sessions
comes with a myriad of questions
and leaves me with the impression
that I'll never find the words
for my confessions
It's a nasty twist of fate
that's left these feelings on my plate,
emotions more complex than love or sorrow
and definitely not hate
I have a rage to scorch the halls of hell
and tears to douse the sun,
an apathy that knows no bounds
and little understanding of the word fun
I have an erratic lust,
an unending trust
and a heart primed to be broken
by the slightest of gust
I'm lost in this world
forever open to any of the shit that gets hurled,
watching and waiting
as my life is unfurled.
Feed [the witch hunt]
They enter [muted]
the room drops silver chimes
announcing the black bride waltz
her blonde hair slashed short
teased into a bloody bouquet
of severed serpent heads
her charcoal eyes weep
into a skeleton hand obscuring her face
flamingo legs step stones in stilettoes
echoing the stabbing death of atmosphere
the bearded man in her wake
appears misplaced and unkempt
he pauses on the threshold
thinking if he should turn away
and melt into the [december] sun
but he has nowhere to go, now
it’s too late… no regrets
are the words that flicker
in the holes in his head
I show them to a table for two
but she shakes her head
like a feeding shark
and points to the booth by the bar
the unlikely couple sit in opposing corners
curiosity strung from nervous tension
watching the grinning time bomb
waiting for the alcohol to explode
and when spirits lubricate their flow, a posse
of nightmare clowns emerge from the shadows
ranting at pictures lining the restaurant walls
[possessed] with flirts of laughter
the couple finger each other’s scars
until she exposes her heart
scribed in his words with [invisible] ink…
so it can glow in the dark
like the cheshire cat, she grins
table top dancing appropriately undressed
his date begins to slow grind the air
feeding on his raw unseasoned face
while patrons feast on the debauchery
served precariously in salt and pepper lines
the enigma [chef] appears in a lick of flames
flexed cannons, blazing technicolour arms
the slick beast breathing cuban plumes
with anabolic veins injecting junk into his brain
when I see his blade I know
he’s her cutter, hunting me down
because I dared to dream of cutting her free
cornered in the booth, across the girl
I thought I knew, she now thrives
in chanting curse to her lonely muse
saving nothing but a stolen face
poison lips and perfect tits
[&] so the masterpiece
of her catastrophe unfolds
the cutter pinning me down onto nine alters
with the blade of her killer, cutting me open
like a fish, I’m gutted, my carcass thrown down
onto the ground, so the clowns
from the shadows can feed
as I die in honour
grinning at the beauty
of her mess.
Written by Alexander Case
David vs. Goliath
(The Uphill Battle)
There is a giant know as addiction
It will tear your mind, body and soul apart
As it tears apart your spirit as it crushes your heart
It will over shadow you
Staring out in with it's menacing frown
It's sole objective holds you down
Most would say that the odds are against me
But I am determined to fight this thing called addiction.
I will not let it cause me destruction
Addiction will do almost anything to destroy me
This is why I am glad to have Christ, Who will guide me and never let me go
Thank goodness that addiction can no longer destroy me with it's poisonous blow
Addiction tried to return, but it has made a mistake
It finally has failed to control me
Even though some people will never care to see
I am glad that everyone sees me in this battle an underdog
They see me as being worthless and my life will be completed
This why feel like my Faith is like David and my Addiction is like Goliath and as we know Goliath was defeated
(The Uphill Battle)
There is a giant know as addiction
It will tear your mind, body and soul apart
As it tears apart your spirit as it crushes your heart
It will over shadow you
Staring out in with it's menacing frown
It's sole objective holds you down
Most would say that the odds are against me
But I am determined to fight this thing called addiction.
I will not let it cause me destruction
Addiction will do almost anything to destroy me
This is why I am glad to have Christ, Who will guide me and never let me go
Thank goodness that addiction can no longer destroy me with it's poisonous blow
Addiction tried to return, but it has made a mistake
It finally has failed to control me
Even though some people will never care to see
I am glad that everyone sees me in this battle an underdog
They see me as being worthless and my life will be completed
This why feel like my Faith is like David and my Addiction is like Goliath and as we know Goliath was defeated