Poem Challenge

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by sleepwalk, Apr 16, 2016.

  1. I challenge you to come up with a poem!
    List of ideas: Gothic, Horror, Romance, Comedic, Adventure, Nature, etc.

    My poem:

    "Push and Shove"

    The laugh of his eyes, they filled my heart. But- I could no longer stay, for I was afraid of the dark.

    The way he held me, it just didn't feel right. Three words could no longer justify a reason to keep me, but try he might.

    I didn't want an echo of the past. I knew where this was leading, I knew we wouldn't last.

    And to think what I felt was God's honest love, but I now know the difference between Push and Shove.

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    I'll be the critic! As a small gift, the poem I like best gets an Origami Unicorn.

    Why the heck not, right?

    It's not tthat cool of a gift, but hey, it's all for the fun!

     
  2. Fight Losses

    An annoying player comes in my wall, complaining about the hits, my calmness falls.

    I clicked his profile, a nooby stats I saw. I prepared my pots, an amount I can draw.

    But as soon I as hit him, my anger grew greater, as all my hits gets him, my newsfeed were failures.
     
  3. Do you allow plagiarism?
     
  4. Can I just post poems I love from other people lol
     
  5. Lol! No plagiarism!
     
  6. mine was original af 
     
  7. [Insert title]

    [insert words]

    The end
     
  8. I yearn for the feel of love to rejoice
    With the cold sad blood in my voice
    Is it me or is it just their choice
    To leave me in the dark with silence a noise

    All the words pressured for words to say
    Are now just blocked in my brain
    Forever and always I will be kept strain
    To relieve the death one calls pain

    A mind is completely oblivion to see
    The weakness in one's fragile beauty
    For in a heart filled full of sorrow
    Lies a face with a smile act they ought to follow

    They say such words you're forced to believe
    When really you're one an eye needs to see
    You'll never be perfect but what's you is you
    They'll never get past the mask to see through

    If only they'd stop for a moment to glance
    At what's most imporntant and start their stance
    It's not too late to relieve the blind eye
    That we're all the same, all linked with a tie.

    For the day will come when ends on ends meet
    And they'll act upon the stone to greet
    But they knew, and they'll always know
    You were just their puppet, used for a show

    Only differences seem to conflict
    And nobody here's the continuous ticks
    In your mind, you're physically breaking
    In your heart, you know they're taking

    You try to stop, but you know it's out of your reach
    To end how you are, your feelings a screech
    You can't help but think it's all in your fault
    And then you realise, you're veins so cold

    They make you realise, it's all you
    You'll never be good enough to be them too
    But deep down you know you wouldn't be
    The true monsters they have shown to me

    When you're gone, they won't reflect still
    How they pushed you to the limit against you're will
    But even now you're gone, they don't seem to care
    That they were the cause for your pain and despair

    This is kind of long but it's just the first part of it ?thought I'd share it
     
  9. Oh my, Bubble wins! 
     
  10. Once upon a time
    He died
    She cried
    They watched
    I walked away
    The end
     
  11. In a mostly common town,
    An uncommon mystery looms
    Of an old abandoned house
    And one of its many rooms.

    To be precise, it's of a clock
    That had frozen on its six.
    Of all the twelve numbers,
    This one is what it picks.

    No doubt the curiosity of the living,
    Brings life to what should be dead.
    Such as this antiquated timepiece,
    And theories it has led.

    To a simple mind, it's easy,
    It's a clock run out of time.
    To the imaginative, it's sinister,
    Maybe an indicator of crime.

    Maybe for a past lord of the house,
    this marked his very last breath.
    Or more popular, an unfortunate lady,
    Who met a most gruesome death.

    Of course, it can be easily remedied,
    The clock's a problem they can fix.
    But that will only bury the puzzle,
    Of why time here froze at six.

    Was it morning? Was it night?
    More questions, they would hold.
    But what is certain is the fact,
    This is a story never to be told.
     
  12. Somebody tell me what's better... love, fortune, or fame?
    When we leave this earth only so much of each remains.
    Never thought being honest could cause me so much pain.
    Simply playing by the rules... earns no further gain.
    Cold world outside my window, shiver fills my veins.
    I plan my escape, while my hearts wrapped in these chains.
    Wrongly incarcerated; my emotions restrained.
    I stare through these bars from a distance, knowing she feels the same.
    ------
    I kick and I scream/
    all these thoughts haunt me at once...
    I envision us being/
    As one...
    so I wish and I dream/
    But these years pass us up quickly
    they're picking up steam/
    -
    ...Faster and faster my soul's growing old turning bitter, a winter is paradise/
    compared to knowing a life without you's what I'm sentenced to... To feel your embrace there's nothing I won't sacrifice/
    To live without you feels like I don't have a life/
    Always been too impatient to wait for an afterlife /

    So I'm cheating this game...

    Damned if I do or I don't either way only have me to blame.
    My passion for you is the only warmth in me trying to chill...
    so you need to extinguish this flame.

    Can't live with myself knowing I didn't give my all.
    So I'll climb every mountain, I'll scale every wall.
    A selfish move maybe, but I'll make that call...


    And apologize one day to all who are involved.
     
  13. I just free wrote that. I'll title it "Sky Prison"... and hopefully you can tell it's about forbidden love.
     
  14. I'm not a poet, but I wanted to post this one by Robert Frost
     
  15. This is great ?
     
  16. All of your poems are so much better than mine. 
     
  17. A difference between two opposite things : a division into two opposite groups

    i.
    Some time after Crow made the world
    she flew south. A little shopping holiday --
    and what great finds!
    She combed the lot for sweet pools of mango juice
    at discount rates, she wolfed chow mein and its shadow,
    a skewered prawn and its shadow, French fries
    and their shadows

    the way she always did:
    always the shadow with its worm,
    the dark afterthought
    not bitter exactly,
    not much like anything
    but the bread at the front end of a buffet table,
    something there to trick you full.

    Soon Crow's sights fell
    on half a Korean pancake
    its chewed-up shape
    casting a crescent shade
    oddly on the pavement.
    She sidled up to it, nonchalant
    as birds are, and dove her beak down in,
    detaching green onions,
    the sliver of the shadow
    submerged in frantic crumbs.
    Crow hopped away, pleased
    with her bright idea.

    But soon the bereaved shadow rose
    in confusion, became the flaw
    in a factory warehouse pair of sunglasses,
    the dark hair in the dragon's beard
    candy a toddler carried. It passed under a lamp
    and someone looked up, expecting rain.

    After not long at all
    it picked up speed, circled above
    long tables of DVDs
    and self-destructed into a hanging light
    shorting it out.


    Mirrored sparks flew in Crow's trickster eye.
    Sheepish, she sidestepped the newer, larger darkness
    and developed a strong
    and sudden interest in

    ii.

    nightward swirls of bamboo. Paper fans
    a girl pulls open --
    sudden horses.

    Messages repeated over loudspeakers.

    Above the din the stallkeeper is speaking to me.
    "Those necklaces are jade, from China. Real jade. You know jade?"
    I know Jade.

    The rabbit who threw herself into the fire
    when there was no food to offer her wise guests,
    the discount life.

    The moon that reflects white light
    into every darkened sky,
    the heart so pure
    it holds no image.
    With stone from another mountain
    she could be honed into the beguiling monkey,
    the patient heron,

    iii.

    Totoros, Puccas, Doreamons
    Badtz Marus -- the plush orbs of their faces
    hover on the tent's backlit wall.

    The stall's nervous guardian
    knows they have a will of their own.
    They might detach, might float out into the marketplace
    their fat cheeks giving them height and dominion
    over the low plane of light.



    I think they'd be benevolent rulers.
    We'd have to obey the laws of kawaii:
    our words clouds
    of pink smoke above our heads
    our expressions never cryptic -- the kids sifting through the stationery sale wide-eyed
    the man serving chocolate bubble tea in the food court
    happy, happy, happy.

    Only the characters' faces
    would remain unreadable,
    the plans of each concealed
    behind the fixed u of a mouth.

    iv.

    Behind every Made In China
    Behind every Made In Vietnam

    I imagine women somewhere hot,
    hot and stuffy
    assembling summer dresses

    or toques and parkas --
    piecing together a foreign winter.

    I imagine these women
    in rows like market stalls.
    A vast room full of every sound
    but that of their mute hands,
    which move faster

    and make paper fans sheltering herds
    of horses,
    the tongs they use to serve those pancakes
    at the Korean pancake place,
    Badtz Maru. The night market's
    tents.

    Maybe they sew the sky
    out of polyester cloth.
    It would not surprise me.

    These women are gods.
    ? It's pretty long, it's a dichotomy poem.
     
  18. I love it. ?
     

  19. Thank you so much
     
  20. how come i didnt win?