Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Periodic Poetry Contest - Theme: Touch of Truth (Page 390, due Jan. 28)
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First, I will post the overall rules, and then I will post the specifics about this week.
Original rules, as stated by Ubertuna:
It must fit the week's theme.
It must be submitted by the deadline.
It cannot have inappropriate language in it.
It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you).
Also:
The poem must be created for this contest
A user cannot win two weeks in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every week!)
Only one submission per user will be accepted
As we all know, the winner will recieve a merit, and their poem will be featured on the _Poetry_ page.
OK, on to this week's topic...Again, we are having a style instead of a theme. Also, this week we are having TWO WEEKS to do it, instead of the usual one. Why? Because this will be an EPIC poem. Or, rather, a parody of an epic poem. Generally, epic poetry is very long, and tells the serious story of a heroic figure. Well, this week, the epic figure is YOU! Write a long poem (I'll leave the definition of 'long' up to you, but give it a good go) about the heroic story of you! It can be silly, serious, whatever... just have fun with it. You have two weeks, so have a great time!
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An appearance from Gantic! 'Tis his signature marriage of interesting vocabulary and tight meter.
The sun is high and mighty in the sky,
It shines upon a golden sandy bed,
You hear the sound of peace from miles away,
From oceanic forces just ahead
Wind rushes through my shirt and through my soul,
The golden sand turns brown beneath my toes,
A crash of water just beyond now rolls
Towards the gallant shore beneath my nose
I do not turn my back for I've no fear,
The fright the ocean gave has long deceased,
I tell the ocean just so it can hear,
"Come and knock me down, you salty beast!"
I try and stay afoot as long I can,
But nature always triumphs over man.
I haven't written a sonnet in a while, so I figured it acceptable to put one here, as I've nowhere else to put it...
Thank you Gantic for changing the thread title to "Biweekly".
I just knew you were going to add the word drool, oh well, maybe next time.
Ahahah I like the title change...
Unsure if I will enter this round...
I just knew you were going to add the word drool, oh well, maybe next time.
But that's like rhyming 'school' 'cool' 'fool' and 'rule'.
Non-entry:
Contumation!
A nuisance in orchestral schools,
A raucous flight, four kestrel fools,
With brass they flaunt semestral rules
By spitting out ancestral drools?
Deluge beyond the meager mules
And wash across beleaguered fools
Swirl in eddies, crush eager pools
A time, it is, your meter rules.
But like a spark, a fire sans fuels,
The vigor thins like dead man's gruels.
Sopped in sand like milk for mewls,
Waves wait in breath for their renewals.
"The vigor thins like dead man's drool,
Sopped in sand like milk for mewls."
Tankas are not extinct until I say so!
Aquatic dangers
Rushing in from distant shores
Licking the dry sand
And turning it to soft mud
Where the tranquil children play
Hope I don't miss the deadline, I'm on vacation in my little hometown for some days...I *could* post what I have already written but that'd be boring no?
Calming rhythm,
Steady waves.
Continuous drumming,
For all days.
Crashing softly,
Against the land.
So I lay down,
On the damp sand.
Feel the water,
Brushing against my feet.
Returning again,
Repeating the beat.
The wave is something,
You cannot amass.
It belongs to the Earth,
It's something you cannot grasp.
Can't hold it in your hand,
Or keep it in a jar.
But you can see it,
Up close or afar.
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I liked writing this one.
Fun stuff, poetry.
On a painful wave of sadness
I plunge into the sea,
Weights bound to my ankles
And no chance of being free
On a rapid wave of anger,
My mind breaks me apart
Ripping, tugging, tearing
At my fragile cracking heart
On a rough wave of confusion,
The wave's my only foe
Maybe the time is coming
To just let the surfboard go
The wave is finally changing,
No longer misty or unclear
For once I'm actually in control,
I've got nothing more to fear
On an endless wave of happiness,
I soar above the trees
Breaking through all limits
And releasing memories
*puts serious business face on*
It's been quite a long time since I've entered this contest, so I tried to write something that I hoped had a meaning.
Waves of Love
Waves of love
were my hand
waves of love
were throughout the land
Waves of sorrow
painful at first
Waves of sorrow
I felt it worst
Waves of Anger
dampen my sole
Waves of anger
go out of control
Waves of forgiveness
wash over me with power
Waves of forgiveness
taken with a flower
Waves of relief
play with my heart
Waves of relief
why were we apart
Waves of love
come over me once more
Waves of love
again open the door
xverb
Waves
Reminisced about the dreamy past,
Back when all was nigh perfect,
But we knew that it could not last,
A fleeting vision the ripples did reflect.
I realise itâs only me caught up by the image,
I think youâve left me in a dark corner,
Eyes flick as I click another page,
It leaves me like a funeral mourner.
Your last words caressed an ocean wave,
Beautiful words of an endless sea,
The sand which I dug my deep grave,
Nothing there but you and me.
Remember the final fantasy you sent over?
Cooling waves lapping your feet,
All you wanted was my armsâ cover,
You laughed as water crashed around our seats.
Quixotic dreams we once had together,
Perhaps you would recall if you tried,
For they survived under any weather,
Now theyâre sunken by the roaring tide.
The calm waters were but a mirage,
You vanished and the tide turned,
Raw emotion in that watery barrage,
As the waves darkened and churned.
Nearly drowned in that tsunami of fury,
Slowly the waters did subside and slow,
Tears flowing speech all slurry,
And I thought I survived Poseidonâs blows.
Crawling back from the sea of limbo,
Sent a single bottled message to you,
Hoping to find you on a rainbow,
For some news and wounds to undo.
But all you gave was a quick wave,
I missed you but did you miss me?
Sometimes you whispered almost nonchalantly,
My heart drifted away with the currents.
I must have lost my touch.
Wow!!Another poem contest awesome!!!Here whats I got!
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality!.
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable Sea?
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It took me like a half hour to write this in microsoft word..it better be worth my time xDDDDD >
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