Welcome to the Poetry Running Contest, the contest constantly open to anyone who loves poetry. If you wanna participate, you're in the right place!
This thread is only for poems submission. For questions about the rules, PM the PRC host, currently Crusible.
Submissions
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To participate, just post a poem. Any type of poetry is welcome, of any length.
You can only post one poem per round.
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Rounds
Each Monday the current round ends and a new round begins.
If 3 or fewer entries are submitted for a round, submission time for that round is extended until the next Monday.
The maximum number of poems per round is 12. Any poems submitted after the 12th will be saved for the next round.
Polls
Each Monday, the host will create a poll in the Personal Writing Forum with the submissions for the new round.
The poll is public and ends after 7 days (the next Monday).
Voting
Users who are participating for the current round in circulation MUST vote.
If you did NOT vote during the round your entry was submitted:
One vote will be deducted from your entry for the current round.
All future entries will automatically be disqualified until you vote on a future round.
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If you vote for three or more entries your votes will be null.
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Please follow the Honor Code when voting:
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Read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
Do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
Winning
After the poll ends, the submission with most votes wins.
In case of a tie for most votes, all the tied submissions win.
After every three wins, the host will contact the Personal Writing Moderator(s), Nai or Talore, who will award a trophy to the winner.
Hosts
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Updating the list of Winners and Winning Poems.
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If a host is no longer active, it should be replaced by a new user, after talking to the old one and posting about it in the Submission Thread.
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Hyper Vyper (as of Round 78 and Round 85) Author Unknown (as of Round 85)
dondee (as of Round 112)
msun641 (as of Round 118)
oro_oro_oro (as of Round 107)
Spiral Brain (as of Round 122)
The Yotian Warrior (as of Round 114)
OhtheHorror (as of round 164)
I wonder
How can cocoa taste so bitter
When its seeds can be so sweet in contrast
Its offspring: the chocolate
Has a delicate appeal as a ravenous chimera
It can feed the gods
For a whole era.
feeling, the one that never really leaves no matter where you are unless you are isolated alone in a room with just yourself and your thoughts, that forever thing waiting and stalking behind every bend and every corner, that incompetence that matches your insecurities and your fat to pain and torture, that resolves every happy thing into a massed blunt blur of nothingness,
that is right now
my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
I want to sacrifice my weekend
On the altar of your existence
We'd nap and cuddle on a saturday-
Id try to make you food
But mostly i'd make you laugh
And let you pick the movies
we'd watch "The Notebook"
Eleven times in a row (except i
Would only watch the rhythm of
Your breathing and soak in
The vividness of your being)
We'd plan a nice sunday
And we'd have a ball and see a
Movie and you'd have vietnamese
For the first time and i'd just relax
For the first time and we'd make
Out in the towel sections of
Department stores and you
Would swear at me in spanish
And i'd stare at you in english
And i'd mangle my entire mindstate
Just to keep you till monday
Encircling its waist were clouds
painted red by the western sun.
Against its figure was the light
sinking into the ocean.
With its shadow alone, we felt a pall
cast on the greatest horizons,
to the highest mountains.
I'm sorry I'm late to be posting the polls and closing the rounds, but our city got a nice power outage due to the severe winter storms here and there in my state.
Also we got some frost and snow, which is uncommon, but is nice anyways.
Round 219 is closed. Round 220 is open until July 29th
I watch her silently. Her smile,
Fading away in the absurd.
She gives me Cancer
But I prefer Scorpio
She watches me back
But I'm already distant,
Over the mountains
She reluctantly expires
In Sagittarius
Behold
Her eyes, her thrill
The sky, the earth
The sound of the windmill
The water in which she mirrors
In Pisces.
Waltzing through the Zodiac
Her faint light
Is behind Gemini
She knows it is about time
But she made it through
Taurus enough.
If I look north I may see Virgo
You should find bleak
This gloomy prospect
Under her watchful glare
A sudden stare
Aries.
In ancient times she cast a spell
She made men bleed
Like an evil queen
She made you sick
Libra knows where it hurts
Between you and me.
The horizon
The end of the road
She is there, everywhere
And so I am
Moved by the tides
Aquarius.
Behold
A closing eye
An end of a tale
A glance of her silver
Is gold in the fable.
Capricorn.
Tell me a story about humpty dumpty
Tell me a story about a princess and
the dragon that held her in it's
wicked castle and tell me a story
about the knight that saved her
Tell me a story about a dozen horses
and a dozen men and a dozen surgeons
who for all their training and all their
raging couldn't put humpty dumpty
together again and for all their preparing
the rookie still remembers the way
his skull splintered and his eye bled
and tell me a story about how he
drinks to put his pieces together in bed
Tell me a story about a dispassionate noble
Tell me a story about an ancient, mysterious
dragon and tell me a story about how they
Entwined their paths and how, for all the dragon's
wealth and for all the dragon's horde it could
not buy a friend, nor could it keep the one
that it stole, and for all the beast's might
it could not ward off that noble knight.
Tell me a story about the glorified vet.
Tell me a story about the war front and death
and the battles he fled from and the rivers that
run with the blood of his brothers and the
blood of his country and how his nobleman's
ideals spill drunkenly over the conquered maiden
Tell me a story about coming to america
Tell me a story about running for office
Tell me a story about being a cop in
Inner city Albuquerque in the early 2000's
Tell me a story about how "Indian School Road"
Got it's name and tell me a story about
The nobility of Custer and tell me a story
About a future of robocops in every phone
and laptop and TV and tell me a story
about the lawyer who trademarked a gene and
Tell me a goddamn story
About someone who succeeded
Tell me a story
About someone who made it out,
About someone who conquered evil
with their virtues and their sanity intact,
Tell me a story about a hero and his guilt
Ma, tell me a mother****ing story for chrissakes-
I gotta grow up some day.
They say white is the new black...
well look at me so unfashionable, mucking up a perfectly good trend
Ransacking the blank page i often stare at for hours.
Inspiration truly is wrapped neatly in a tragedy's bow.
And who would i be to becon such a karmic caper, to a perfectly fine, and boring party?
Drama queen?
Glutton for punishment?
Artistic Masochist?
Perhaps when bad things happen to creative people... it's simply Poetic Justice.
All is right in the world... when all is wrong in my world.
Where is my bridegroom
my light and knowledge?
I tried to breach His understanding
and paid dearly for overreaching.
I fell to this world
full of despair and fear
My only comfort a little lamb
who created many beautiful things
through my consent,
unaware of my presence.
He will save me, I know
ushering this world with us
through the understanding
of his divine light
like great yeti monsters
the whiteness surrounded us
all the trappings of privilege
an imperialist omnibus
inescaped obscurity
such privileged maturity
to be able to hide
in those little white lies
and not fathom all of life's excessive absurdity
when we open our mouth
the soundwaves are all fog
no cogent explanation
or illustrative logs
when we shook out our brain
all the little white stains
excrete bleach and pain
spit up in lines to blame
all the bleach guzzled down
'round the fog-obscured town
all the whiteness so spotless
the dreaminess thoughtless
my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
They said it had snowed,
when I was asleep. Hailed,
then rained. There wasn’t
a lot of it, not much
at least, to make the short grass
white, or cover the streets
and earth.
And when I woke, the sky
wasn’t gray, and, certainly,
the sun was out. I saw
a wet world, but everything looked
like it had been burned. Small
black pools reflecting the roads
seemed so much like tar. The land
was mud and the trees
were greenless,
without leaves. Over the horizon,
a lone, faded cloud
stretched across the sun.
Seeing the day burned
behind that mass, I thought
it was smoke from a furnace
far away that had been locked
and buried in a hole in the ground;
that those ashes in the air
came from a repressed anger
whose origins we may never know.
Would you ever dive into the blackness of your computer screen?
Would you ever lunge, headfirst into the pulsing of your veins?
Would you ever drown yourself in the swelling of an orchestra?
Would you ever swing, vine by vine by vine, through your tearing muscle fibers?
Would you ever scream until your throat bleeds with the song of an angel?
Would you ever scream until your rage came unhinged and no longer needed
the justification of a politician or a boss or a traffic jam and
Would you ever scream until the emotion stood alone and
Would you ever dance with your demons in the moonlight?
Would you waltz with the alcohol
and jitterbug with the weed?
Would you two step with lies
and square dance with greed?
Would you shadow-box the loneliness,
and find peace in struggle?
Would you permit yourself to become lost in that vast tableau of life;
the breadcrumbs leading you only ever on into the future,
into the basement of your dropout, unshaven soul?
Would you crack a window and breathe in the smog of your future?
Would you sniff the heady mix of crack smoke and New Jersey fumes, breathe deep,
shake your arms and stretch your legs and proclaim,
"What a nice day for a jog."
Would you ever stare into the abyss until the abyss blinks back tears and
sobs, gently into your ears that there is 'just too much'
Then glibly smile and nod and reply, with all the certainty of a gambler
betting on the chamber of a bullet-
"What a nice day for a jog."
Would you ever: give up give in surrender quit go home leave abandon hope and die
on the altar of God's last hope-
And choose to Win anyway?
And if you did-
Would you be be able to stop yourself from stopping yourself?
Welcome to the Poetry Running Contest, the contest constantly open to anyone who loves poetry. If you wanna participate, you're in the right place!
This thread is only for poems submission. For questions about the rules, PM the PRC host, currently Crusible.
- Each Monday the current round ends and a new round begins.
- If 3 or fewer entries are submitted for a round, submission time for that round is extended until the next Monday.
- The maximum number of poems per round is 12. Any poems submitted after the 12th will be saved for the next round.
Polls- Each Monday, the host will create a poll in the Personal Writing Forum with the submissions for the new round.
- The poll is public and ends after 7 days (the next Monday).
Voting- Users who are participating for the current round in circulation MUST vote.
- If you did NOT vote during the round your entry was submitted:
- One vote will be deducted from your entry for the current round.
- All future entries will automatically be disqualified until you vote on a future round.
- NOTE: I will send "Remember to Vote" PMs to participants who have not voted late into the round. If I do not send a "Remember to Vote" PM within 24 hours before the round closing and the participant has not voted, the participant will not be put on "PRC Probation"; but, a vote will still be deducted from his current entry.
- If you vote for three or more entries your votes will be null.
- If you vote for yourself your poem will be disqualified.
- Please follow the Honor Code when voting:
- Give each poetry submission an equal opportunity in attaining your vote.
- Read, or at least skim, all the entries before voting.
- Do not vote for your friends just because they're your friends.
WinningCredits
Preve (Formerly Sam111111) 32 wins, 10 trophies Rounds 19, 30, 36, 44, 45, 59, 60, 68, 73, 79, 89, 94, 101, 115, 116, 118, 122, 132, 136, 139, 141, 164, 166, 177, 178, 184, 200, 203, 216, 226, 229, 230
Kaitscralt (Formerly Madding) 26 wins, 8 trophies Rounds 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 23, 34, 40, 42, 43, 50, 51, 56, 57, 80, 83, 84, 96, 97, 102, 104, 105, 118, 126, 140, 145
BlippyTheSlug 26 wins, 8 trophies Rounds 109, 120, 128, 129, 132, 134, 155, 165, 175, 181, 183, 185, 186, 192, 194, 195, 208, 211, 215, 216, 217, 221, 225, 229, 231, 234
msun641 19 wins, 6 trophies Rounds 2, 3, 5, 6, 15, 18, 41, 43, 49, 51, 53, 54, 60, 62, 63, 64, 70, 81, 82
Zelderex 19 wins, 6 trophies Rounds 123, 135, 148, 150, 158, 159, 162, 165, 168, 170, 178, 179, 186, 206, 208, 214, 218, 220, 232
Stifle 18 wins, 5 trophies Rounds 12, 15, 17, 20, 24, 25, 28, 34, 39, 72, 77, 79, 80, 83, 85, 87, 214, 216
Ilvaldi 17 wins, 5 trophies Rounds 53, 63, 66, 103, 105, 108, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 189, 190, 191, 192, 214, 217
Condoms (formerly known as Kpaca) 14 wins, 4 trophies Rounds 117, 119, 121, 125, 127, 129, 131, 142, 143, 146, 155, 157, 195, 197
Zaph 12 wins, 4 trophies Rounds 6, 9, 21, 22, 30, 96, 99, 100, 106, 107, 113, 139
Guilan 12 wins, 4 trophies Rounds 90, 91, 138, 163, 169, 170, 171, 180, 186, 199, 220, 221
Talore 11 wins, 3 trophies Round 137, 144, 146, 152, 154, 155, 163, 175, 178, 192, 222
Crusible 8 wins, 2 trophies Rounds 199, 201, 204, 210, 213, 219, 225, 228
Urbanus 7 wins, 2 trophies Rounds 48, 71, 89, 111, 114, 138, 139
IcecreamMan80 7 wins, 2 trophies Round 146, 153, 156, 198, 205, 217, 224
Lucknorris 6 wins, 2 trophies Round 90, 133, 145, 192, 209
MzztrTetris 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 117, 120, 124, 147
pstmdrn 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 64, 65, 69, 82
Yanni 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 129, 130, 133, 170
iCwalzy 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 181, 184, 192, 203
Minion of Boredom 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 78, 86, 93, 201
Chiligyro 4 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 180, 181, 183, 233
Hyper Vyper 3 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 57, 60, 63
Rush_Clasic 3 wins, 1 trophy Round 98, 148, 151
Kamotz 3 wins, 1 trophy Rounds 172, 174, 176
Ophidian Eye 2 wins Rounds 223, 227
Rubin 2 wins Rounds 149, 166
Author Unknown 2 wins Rounds 55, 58
Caitiri 2 wins Rounds 36, 47
Lesurgo 2 wins Rounds 47, 75
LogicX 2 win Rounds 160, 164
Medisinyl 2 wins Rounds 110, 112
Norm D. Plumb 2 wins Rounds 35, 50
riliss 2 wins Rounds 9, 76
Xyre 2 wins Rounds 18, 19
Pancake Puffs 2 win Round 193
Iso 2 wins Round 195, Round 197
Ynysdyn 2 wins Rounds 196, 202
Queengothica13 2 Wins Rounds 202, 207
Archae 1 win Round 52
aspirnietzche 1 win Round 74
Big Nasty 1 win Round 48
Boros 1 win Round 67
Burgess 1 win Round 57
Clock King 1 win Round 124
Danny 1 win Round 4
DarkwaterElemental 1 win Round 141
DServ! 1 win Round 153
ep. 1 win Round 53
Faerie Lord 1 win Round 37
Fakeartist 1 win Round 61
FirePenguinMaster 1 win Round 11
George 1 win Round 27
Ilmarinen 1 win Round 161
indomitablebug 1 win Round 31
Iuz 1 win Round 67
Johm000 1 win Round 46
Keeperofzion 1 win Round 64
mtgman_arich 1 win Round 92
necrogenesis 1 win Round 16
Niv-Mizzet the Firemind 1 win Round 64
one_winged_angel 1 win Round 14
passthejufrann 1 win Round 139
rancorous_fool 1 win Round 7
riddle 1 win Round 3
saintskeith 1 win Round 32
Serafis 1 win Round 88
ShadowBlaze 1 win Round 16
The Subprime Soldier 1 win Round 38
taipan 1 win Round 26
The Mad Tapper 1 win Round 1
TranceInMotion 1 win Round 14
Twilightmancer 1 win Round 8
Wessel 1 win Round 29
WingDamage9001 1 win Round 95
_IF_ 1 win Round 33
Uncleistvan 1 Win Round 176
The Dark Passenger 1 win 187
Rywads 1 win Round 188
4thdimensionalbubble 1 win Round 202
ArbitraryArmor 1 Win Round 212
Rounds 38-46
Rounds 47-65
Rounds 66-97
Rounds 98-163
Rounds 163-218
Author Unknown (as of Round 85)
dondee (as of Round 112)
msun641 (as of Round 118)
oro_oro_oro (as of Round 107)
Spiral Brain (as of Round 122)
The Yotian Warrior (as of Round 114)
OhtheHorror (as of round 164)
Hallucination (as of Round 137)
like pen pencil computer
sometimes prolific
sometimes a neuter
Round 1 When Fall the Leaves of Fall The Mad Tapper
Round 2 Amateur's Death msun641
Round 3 More AP English jots msun641, Tornado riddle
Round 4 Don't Get Lost Danny
Round 5 éclipse d’étoile msun641
Round 6 Neglectful Dream Zaph, The Stuff of Legend msun641
Round 7 (Eye Catching Title) rancorous_fool
Round 8 Candlelight Twilightmancer
Round 9 iluvucination riliss, Mourning Glory Zaph
Round 10 The Mocking Sky Madding
Round 11 Under Diana, the Proud Madding, The Wanderer FirePenguinMaster
Round 12 Jawdropper Stifle
Round 13 Fly-trap Madding
Round 14 The Butterfly one_winged_angel, awake i sleep TranceInMotion
Round 15 I think I'm far from Heaven Stifle, “Each little bird that sings” msun641
Round 16 A Passion Macabre necrogenesis, The Dreadful Transition to a Life of Perdition ShadowBlaze
Round 17 Fleeting Madding, msun641 Stifle
Round 18 My Siren msun641, Denial Madding, Friendly Reminder Xyre
Round 19 Firenze Xyre, Warming Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 20 blame love on time Stifle
Round 21 A Return to Hay Fever Fields Zaph
Round 22 One Beer Too Les Zaph
Round 23 Behold, the Lily Lady Madding
Round 24 what has not been done before Stifle
Round 25 Stifling Stifle
Round 26 An Ode to Poultice taipan
Round 27 At the End of the Day George
Round 28 Reader, you can relate. Stifle
Round 29 Writer's Vanity. Wessel
Round 30 Vertigo Preve (Formerly Sam111111), An Ode To Love (or the Poetry of Demons) Zaph
Round 31 5150 indomitablebug
Round 32 Musician saintskeith
Round 33 Look. Listen. Choose. Act _IF_
Round 34 Gargoyle Madding, Oh Cindy, where has the moon gone? Stifle
Round 35 Holly Jolly Melancholy Norm D. Plumb
Round 36 Rebirth Preve (Formerly Sam111111), At the Helm Caitiri
Round 37 Lonely night spark in the sky (Ode to my dreams) Faerie Lord
Round 38 Elizabeth's Halo The Subprime Soldier
Round 39 inhaling her thoughts Stifle
Round 40 Momentary Bliss Madding
Round 41 Phase Changes msun641
Round 42 Sitting Outside Madding
Round 43 With Selene In His Sights Madding, Tress msun641
Round 44 Remind me Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 45 favorite's play Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 46 All I Feel Is Pain Johm000
Round 47 The Silver Box Lesurgo, Life and Death Caitiri
Round 48 "A Sonnet" Urbanus, Cherries Big Nasty
Round 49 ...And yet more ungrounded angst msun641
Round 50 Untitled ("I've been waiting for this") Norm D. Plumb, Moonstruck Madding
Round 51 Turning Slowly Away msun641, Spirit Madding
Round 52 In the kitchen at 10:43 Archae
Round 53 Let's Get Things Started Soon msun641, Malela ep., Currency Ilvaldi
Round 54 Adieu msun641
Round 55 The American Dream Author Unknown
Round 56 Self-Esteem Madding
Round 57 Announcements from the Town Crier Burgess, Friendship Has an Expiration Date Hyper Vyper, Merry Me Madding
Round 58 20 Author Unknown
Round 59 Parking Lot Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 60 Reflection Preve (Formerly Sam111111), To the Sordid Point msun641, Death Play Hyper Vyper
Round 61 Better Off Blind. Fakeartist
Round 62 What about life? msun641
Round 63 The Sandman Ilvaldi, The Jester and the Sap msun641, Cosplay (rap) Hyper Vyper
Round 64 The window Niv-Mizzet the Firemind, Twilight Keeperofzion, MS853113E msun641, Social Shards Alara Security pstmdrn
Round 65 The Word (I've Heard So Much About It) pstmdrn
Round 66 Life in Little Boxes Ilvaldi
Round 67 i cut myself to the sound of your voice Iuz, To a Knight and a Windmill Boros
Round 68 Premonition Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 69 Your Little Bear pstmdrn
Round 70 Alderaan Calling msun641
Round 71 Untitled ('She spoke to me...') Urbanus
Round 72 riliss, can i? Stifle
Round 73 we all suck Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 74 Untitled ('I took it like a spinning wheel...') aspirnietzche
Round 75 Dear Mother, who Left me when I was Born, Lesurgo
Round 76 The riliss
Round 77 I wish you were my lover in a past life Stifle
Round 78 To A Friend For Whom I Swear I Don't Have a Healthy Obsession Minion of Boredom
Round 79 turning Preve (Formerly Sam111111), heart break her Stifle
Round 80 Moonless Madding, pleasing on the eyes Stifle
Round 81 Pining msun641
Round 82 9. Lega msun641, The Way of the Resplendent Crane pstmdrn
Round 83 Need Madding, Body of Work Stifle
Round 84 Bribing Asclepius Madding
Round 85 Finding Sierra Crest Stifle
Round 86 Sixteen Poems to a Mysterious You Minion of Boredom
Round 87 i am all mine Stifle
Round 88 Dihydrogen Monoxide Serafis
Round 89 "They Can't See..." Urbanus, Several meditations on honor Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 90 Were Not Like the Men of Yore Lucknorris, The Poem Guilan
Round 91 moonlight rose Guilan
Round 92 Millions crawling around... mtgman_arich
Round 93 The Miser's Indulgence Minion of Boredom
Round 94 The less you know Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 95 Somewhere I've Seen WingDamage9001
Round 96 January II Zaph, Argument Madding
Round 97 Hexathelidae Madding
Round 98 Loop, Swoop, Pull Rush_Clasic
Round 99 Fingers turned cold long ago Zaph
Round 100 Ouroboros Zaph
Round 101 A Conversation Rush_Clasic, Care Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 102 Fly afar, miss firefly... Madding
Round 103 We Were Supposed To Meet Today Ilvaldi
Round 104 Radiation Eve Madding
Round 105 Reasonable Suspect Madding, Suburban Ilvaldi
Round 106 The Heron Zaph
Round 107 Muse or "Words I can't put into words" Zaph
Round 108 The Nostalgia of the Infinite Ilvaldi
Round 109 After a Morning of Listening to Johnny Cash BlipplyTheSlug
Round 110 Of War and Cancer Medisinyl
Round 111 Savannah Urbanus
Round 112 The White Medisinyl
Round 113 Pyrohemia Zaph
Round 114 Out There Urbanus
Round 115 Waiting for the escape Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 116 Which is like a note of closure Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 117 A Letter of Sincerest Apology tezzeret12, Collegiate by Condoms
Round 118 Loathsome Vassal by Madding, We're not friends by Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 119 AK-47 (a tribute to a banned member) by Condoms
Round 120 "Beautiful dawn..." tezzeret12, Otto Traversing the Stairs BlippyTheSlug
Round 121 Pulled Pork by condoms
Round 122 Roots Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 123 Letters to Heaven: Zelderex
Round 124 "Look at the stars she says to me..." tezzeret12, Harrowing, precise progression. Clock King
Round 125 My Night with a Lady from the Middle East Condoms
Round 126 Seastung Madding
Round 127 Twigs by Condoms
Round 128 Throwing Stones At Our Glass House BlippyTheSlug
Round 129 First Snow BlippyTheSlug, The Trees Have Grown Oranges by condoms, Untitled Yanni
Round 130 My Night With An Old Friend Yanni
Round 131 The Selfless by condoms
Round 132 Nut Slap Tryptich BlippyTheSlug, Sleeping Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 133 Average Sunday for the Underprivileged LuckNorris, If Only I Had Known Yanni
Round 134 Looney Sonnet BlippyTheSlug
Round 135 Dear Zeldy Zelderex
Round 136 Walls Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 137 Special Snowflake Talore
Round 138 Severed Verses Guilan, Plastic Dialogue Urbanus
Round 139 Figures of Speech passthejufrann, A thousand planes Preve (Formerly Sam111111), "As the tall Ash cries..." Urbanus, I Should Be A Vampire Hunter Zaph
Round 140 Youth Madding
Round 141 Sickening DarkwaterElemental, Spitting in the third eye Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 142 Purple by Condoms
Round 143 A citrusy fluid by Condoms
Round 144 Allergies Talore
Round 145 A Number 15 Victory LuckNorris, "Am I brave..." Madding
Round 146 Maybe I'll Leave a Note IcecreamMan80, Martin X by Condoms, Incorporeal Talore
Round 147 What shall I wear, Jesse Bear? by MzztrTetris
Round 148 "That life with passion..." Rush_Clasic, Death of a Sock Zelderex
Round 149 I am an artist Rubin
Round 150 Bracken; Beautiful; Broken; Beatific by Zelderex
Round 151 your eyes by Rush_Clasic
Round 152 Concert Hall by Talore
Round 153 Sit for a Breeze, Walking Palm by DServ!, Burgundy by IcecreamMan80
Round 154 The Human Experience by Talore
Round 155 The Squirrel Race by Condoms, Morning Glory, Redux by BlippyTheSlug, Study by Talore
Round 156 I wish I was a dog... by IcecreamMan80
Round 157 Walkin in Olympus by Condoms
Round 158 PostCulture by Zelderex
Round 159 The Race by Zelderex
Round 160 The Last Tree by LogicX
Round 161 Gary, Indiana by Ilmarinen
Round 162 Indefinite by Zelderex
Round 163 Scenery by Gulan, and Dysphoria by Talore
Round 164 The Eight Day by LogicX, and to be [or not] by Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 165 Untitled, by Zelderex and Untitled, by BlippytheSlug
Round 166 Red, by Rubin and Sculptor, by Preve (Formerly Sam111111)
Round 167 The Governor's Warfield Parkway, by Ilvaldi.
Round 168 Route 1, by Ilvaldi and 11:59, by Zelderex
Round 169 Born from Stars by Guilan, The Lowering by Ilvaldi
Round 170 Pain, Ache by Guilan, Vitamin H by Yanni, Apologies by Ilvaldi
Round 171 Counting the Uncountable by Guilan
Round 172 "End of Summer" Symphony No. 1 in E minor. Op. 8, No. 3 by Kamotz
Round 173 On the Shores of Onanore by Ilvaldi
Round 174 Silhouettes by Kamotz
Round 175 Necrophilia by Blippytheslug, Fleeting by Talore, and Shield by Talore
Round 176 The Suburbs by Uncleistvan, and eerT evilO (Olive Tree) by Kamotz
Round 177 Gray Ears by Preve
Round 178 goal by Preve, For Kimberly Rivera, and The Human Cliff Dive by Zelderex
Round 179 Untitled by Zelderex
Round 180 Chrysanthemum by Guilan, Falling by Chiligyro, and Schrodinger's Plants by Blippytheslug
Round 181 Untitled #88510 by Blippytheslug, Inevitable Changes by Chiligyro, Hell by Pancake_Puffs, andDrowning Out The End by iCwalzy
Round 182 iama by Preve
Round 183 Nailed to Time by Chiligryro, and **** I Miss Being a DJ by Blippytheslug
Round184 8:23 PM by iCwalzy
Round 185 Aurora Sits on my Face by Blippytheslug
Round 186 Merry Christmas by Blippytheslug, Beyond the Invisible Line by Guilan and Wayward (Fool's Gold Standard) by Zelderex
Round 187 Where Thoughts Pool by The Dark Passenger
Round 188 Kerplunck by Rywad
Round 189 Prayers by Ilvaldi
Round 190 Man of Steelby Ilvaldi
Round 191 Cerberus by Ilvaldi
Round 192 Modded in the Face by iCwalzy, No Fun Allowed by Talore, Alone In An Empty House At 9PM When It's Forty Below Out, and Atlas by Ilvaldi
Round 193 Postcards from Cassidy by Pancake_Puffs
Round 194 Breakfast in Bed by Blippytheslug
Round 195 Chicken Stick by Condoms, and I, Humanity by Iso
Round 196 A Machine for Pigs by Ynysdyn
Round 197 White Willow, White Widow by Iso and The Symphony of Underclass Youth by Condoms
Round 198 The Disenfranchised by IceCreamMan80
Round 199 Masks by Guilan, and Garden Variety Depression by Crusible
Round 200 Necessity by Preve
Round 201 Tribute to Tributary by Crusible, and Meditation Zero by Minion of Boredom
Round 202 MOKSHA by Ynysdyn, A Homeless Conglomerate by Lucknorris, and Untitled by 4thdimensionalbubble
Round 203 Explanation by Preve, and Red Liquid by iCwalzy
Round 204 Tea for One by Crusible
Round 205 I, Battle Hymn by IceCreamMan80
Round 206 And by Zelderex
Round 207 Poem #142 by QueenGothica13
Round 208 Rambles from an Old Man by Blippytheslug, and Time Enough at Last by Zelderex
Round 209 Obituaries and Thoughts by Lucknorris
Round 210 Object Philosophy by Crusible
Round 211 Pocahontus Moderni by Blippytheslug
Round 212 An Ode to Collective Perfection (Iambic) by ArbitraryArmor (for the record: this poem is about burritos
Round 213 No Words by Crusible
Round 214 Luxury by Stifle, Walking Together by Ilvaldi, and Nashville by Zelderex
Round 215 Shadow Dance by Blippytheslug
Round 216 Abide by Preve, Potato Chips by Blippytheslug, and A Palette of Snow by Stifle
Round 217 "Untitled" by Blippytheslug , The Gospel of Galileo, by IcecreamMan80, Ame Dreams, by Ilvadly
Round 218 American Surrender, by Zelderex
Round 219 no food in frigid air by Crusible
Round 220 Waning Moon by Guilan, Story Time by Zelderex
Round 221 Dear Friends by Guilan, Honey Boo Boo, Your Mom Is An Idiot by BlippyTheSlug
Round 222 Your scabs are peeling by Talore
Round 223 Beef Jerky by Ophidian Eye
Round 224 We Sacrifice Virgins by IcecreamMan80
Round 225 Inevitable by Crusible, Word Dances of Seduction for ****** by BlippyTheSlug
Round 226 worthless by Preve
Round 227 Sapient Pearwood by Ophidian Eye
Round 228 Say Nothing by Crusible
Round 229 obstinance by Preve, Am I Alive? by BlippyTheSlug
Round 230 Epidural by Preve
Round 231 Plug Me Into Something by BlippyTheSlug
Round 232 Untitled by Zelderex
Round 233 Parasite by Chiligyro
Round 234 Worldwide Wackiness by BlippyTheSlug
Round 235 Kâ-têpwêt? by BlippyTheSlug
Round 236 Well Lost Zelderex
Round 237 The Ephemeral by Ophidian Eye, Chant of the Hedgehog by BlippyTheSlug
Round 238 house by Preve, I roamed a dream of trees by Zelderex
Round 239 I Wish I Were A Dog by BlippyTheSlug, Decrepit Shed by LuckNorris, comprehension by Preve
Round 240 peanut envy by Crusible
Round 241 Glamerworld by SelesnyaNewLife, Slinging Words by BlippyTheSlug
Round 242 Death Won’t Come Quickly by msipes, you destroyed a forest by Talore
Round 243 Bugs by SelesnyaNewLife
Round 219 submissions start here -Talore
like pen pencil computer
sometimes prolific
sometimes a neuter
Dumb lies/terrible cries/soul dies/daddy why?/say goodbye.
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"A fantastic approach!"
said the little cockroach
"We will pit them against one another!
Black against white, brother against brother!"
"They'll never suspect the little guys
when they've loosed all their bombs
and the last human dies!"
I wonder
How can cocoa taste so bitter
When its seeds can be so sweet in contrast
Its offspring: the chocolate
Has a delicate appeal as a ravenous chimera
It can feed the gods
For a whole era.
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Pourquoi?
that grin is a fantastic rupture
a roulette to my Russia
adrenaline; you are a rush of
butterflies and cold tea
numbs me to a stiff reality
since we could never be
time, she plays a cruel mistress
and knows too well of distress
for my pain is her eustress
and she loves to hear "please"
yet no matter how much i'd plead
her ears fall deaf to these pleas
so practice good karma in lieu of good hopes
and shed expectations before they grow
for knowledge is pain - it hurts to know
that a caricature of my past wanting
is delivered to this present setting
and there's no future treading
the fine lines of a possibility called us
The fridge door closes
casting darkness on
the empty shelves
where food should be.
Broken glass
fills the freezer
from a forgotten bottle
a friend filled with water
before leaving.
My cabinets also echo
the same refrain:
"no food to find here,
we are empty like you"
like pen pencil computer
sometimes prolific
sometimes a neuter
feeling, the one that never really leaves no matter where you are unless you are isolated alone in a room with just yourself and your thoughts, that forever thing waiting and stalking behind every bend and every corner, that incompetence that matches your insecurities and your fat to pain and torture, that resolves every happy thing into a massed blunt blur of nothingness,
that is right now
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
an ugly misshapen yam
it is a hardy thing, growing
in the shadow of the mountain
I pluck the yam with my fingers
ugly, shriveled, soot-stained fingers
dawn or dusk, forever darkened
by the shadow of the mountain
under moon and star, we betrayed
how many of us remember?
do they remember golden light?
or who the anticipations were?
it's our nature to be knocked out
to thirst for dominion over
our destinies, but what of our dreams?
the dreamer is awakening
On the altar of your existence
We'd nap and cuddle on a saturday-
Id try to make you food
But mostly i'd make you laugh
And let you pick the movies
we'd watch "The Notebook"
Eleven times in a row (except i
Would only watch the rhythm of
Your breathing and soak in
The vividness of your being)
We'd plan a nice sunday
And we'd have a ball and see a
Movie and you'd have vietnamese
For the first time and i'd just relax
For the first time and we'd make
Out in the towel sections of
Department stores and you
Would swear at me in spanish
And i'd stare at you in english
And i'd mangle my entire mindstate
Just to keep you till monday
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Encircling its waist were clouds
painted red by the western sun.
Against its figure was the light
sinking into the ocean.
With its shadow alone, we felt a pall
cast on the greatest horizons,
to the highest mountains.
Rotted wood piled up in pyres
The embers dance across
Pitch black sky
Standard:
Also we got some frost and snow, which is uncommon, but is nice anyways.
Round 219 is closed. Round 220 is open until July 29th
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Pourquoi?
collar bone, collar bone
where do your curves flow?
down to the ground
where billows your ball gown?
or up the nape to frame
your frown, its disdain?
collar bone, collar bone
I know where your curves flow
they flow in my gaze
a pervert's highest praise
I watch her silently. Her smile,
Fading away in the absurd.
She gives me Cancer
But I prefer Scorpio
She watches me back
But I'm already distant,
Over the mountains
She reluctantly expires
In Sagittarius
Behold
Her eyes, her thrill
The sky, the earth
The sound of the windmill
The water in which she mirrors
In Pisces.
Waltzing through the Zodiac
Her faint light
Is behind Gemini
She knows it is about time
But she made it through
Taurus enough.
If I look north I may see Virgo
You should find bleak
This gloomy prospect
Under her watchful glare
A sudden stare
Aries.
In ancient times she cast a spell
She made men bleed
Like an evil queen
She made you sick
Libra knows where it hurts
Between you and me.
The horizon
The end of the road
She is there, everywhere
And so I am
Moved by the tides
Aquarius.
Behold
A closing eye
An end of a tale
A glance of her silver
Is gold in the fable.
Capricorn.
The moon wanes
And with her spell,
Leo.
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Pourquoi?
Tell me a story about humpty dumpty
Tell me a story about a princess and
the dragon that held her in it's
wicked castle and tell me a story
about the knight that saved her
Tell me a story about a dozen horses
and a dozen men and a dozen surgeons
who for all their training and all their
raging couldn't put humpty dumpty
together again and for all their preparing
the rookie still remembers the way
his skull splintered and his eye bled
and tell me a story about how he
drinks to put his pieces together in bed
Tell me a story about a dispassionate noble
Tell me a story about an ancient, mysterious
dragon and tell me a story about how they
Entwined their paths and how, for all the dragon's
wealth and for all the dragon's horde it could
not buy a friend, nor could it keep the one
that it stole, and for all the beast's might
it could not ward off that noble knight.
Tell me a story about the glorified vet.
Tell me a story about the war front and death
and the battles he fled from and the rivers that
run with the blood of his brothers and the
blood of his country and how his nobleman's
ideals spill drunkenly over the conquered maiden
Tell me a story about coming to america
Tell me a story about running for office
Tell me a story about being a cop in
Inner city Albuquerque in the early 2000's
Tell me a story about how "Indian School Road"
Got it's name and tell me a story about
The nobility of Custer and tell me a story
About a future of robocops in every phone
and laptop and TV and tell me a story
about the lawyer who trademarked a gene and
Tell me a goddamn story
About someone who succeeded
Tell me a story
About someone who made it out,
About someone who conquered evil
with their virtues and their sanity intact,
Tell me a story about a hero and his guilt
Ma, tell me a mother****ing story for chrissakes-
I gotta grow up some day.
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They say white is the new black...
well look at me so unfashionable, mucking up a perfectly good trend
Ransacking the blank page i often stare at for hours.
Inspiration truly is wrapped neatly in a tragedy's bow.
And who would i be to becon such a karmic caper, to a perfectly fine, and boring party?
Drama queen?
Glutton for punishment?
Artistic Masochist?
Perhaps when bad things happen to creative people... it's simply Poetic Justice.
All is right in the world... when all is wrong in my world.
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Pourquoi?
Where is my bridegroom
my light and knowledge?
I tried to breach His understanding
and paid dearly for overreaching.
I fell to this world
full of despair and fear
My only comfort a little lamb
who created many beautiful things
through my consent,
unaware of my presence.
He will save me, I know
ushering this world with us
through the understanding
of his divine light
Once again we will
dance with the logos.
I wrote a story
and now it's gone.
It disappeared,
what have they done?
It was fantastic,
it spoke of greed
and of betrayal,
and doubtful deeds.
The man in charge
was full of contempt
and even though he
used to be a friend
he killed my story
and threw me into jail.
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Dear friends
Dear friends,
Consider it paid
Buds bloom but the stem itself never does
Semiotics seldom impress me,
Consider it gold.
Your lives are lost,
Your days will never end
Here, under my embrace, giving me some peace.
Water inside jars should quench your veins.
Cut the fingers to see the color blend
Floating wine in water to crimson end
Come see me in the gardens
I'm spilling water over the graves.
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Pourquoi?
like great yeti monsters
the whiteness surrounded us
all the trappings of privilege
an imperialist omnibus
inescaped obscurity
such privileged maturity
to be able to hide
in those little white lies
and not fathom all of life's excessive absurdity
when we open our mouth
the soundwaves are all fog
no cogent explanation
or illustrative logs
when we shook out our brain
all the little white stains
excrete bleach and pain
spit up in lines to blame
all the bleach guzzled down
'round the fog-obscured town
all the whiteness so spotless
the dreaminess thoughtless
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
when I was asleep. Hailed,
then rained. There wasn’t
a lot of it, not much
at least, to make the short grass
white, or cover the streets
and earth.
And when I woke, the sky
wasn’t gray, and, certainly,
the sun was out. I saw
a wet world, but everything looked
like it had been burned. Small
black pools reflecting the roads
seemed so much like tar. The land
was mud and the trees
were greenless,
without leaves. Over the horizon,
a lone, faded cloud
stretched across the sun.
Seeing the day burned
behind that mass, I thought
it was smoke from a furnace
far away that had been locked
and buried in a hole in the ground;
that those ashes in the air
came from a repressed anger
whose origins we may never know.
Would you ever lunge, headfirst into the pulsing of your veins?
Would you ever drown yourself in the swelling of an orchestra?
Would you ever swing, vine by vine by vine, through your tearing muscle fibers?
Would you ever scream until your throat bleeds with the song of an angel?
Would you ever scream until your rage came unhinged and no longer needed
the justification of a politician or a boss or a traffic jam and
Would you ever scream until the emotion stood alone and
Would you ever dance with your demons in the moonlight?
Would you waltz with the alcohol
and jitterbug with the weed?
Would you two step with lies
and square dance with greed?
Would you shadow-box the loneliness,
and find peace in struggle?
Would you permit yourself to become lost in that vast tableau of life;
the breadcrumbs leading you only ever on into the future,
into the basement of your dropout, unshaven soul?
Would you crack a window and breathe in the smog of your future?
Would you sniff the heady mix of crack smoke and New Jersey fumes, breathe deep,
shake your arms and stretch your legs and proclaim,
"What a nice day for a jog."
Would you ever stare into the abyss until the abyss blinks back tears and
sobs, gently into your ears that there is 'just too much'
Then glibly smile and nod and reply, with all the certainty of a gambler
betting on the chamber of a bullet-
"What a nice day for a jog."
Would you ever: give up give in surrender quit go home leave abandon hope and die
on the altar of God's last hope-
And choose to Win anyway?
And if you did-
Would you be be able to stop yourself from stopping yourself?
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