ForumsArt, Music, and WritingPeriodic Poetry Contest - Theme: Touch of Truth (Page 390, due Jan. 28)

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DragonMistress
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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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Maverick4
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If it's subtle it's even better. I hate when things scream in my face. Go as far as you want, so long as you're able to justify it.


Cool. I just wanted to ask, before I wrote something and then it wouldn't be counted.
EnterOrion
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Overflow, the words in my soul,
Falling pieces, fill my hole,
Darkness, cut out my heart,
Fill the void with my art.

Listen to the sounds,
They call me bittersweet,
Looking over bounds,
Lamentation makes me weep.

I called my words back,
But they just left,
They ran away, a finely worded sigh,
To leave me gone.

I conjured a demon,
It filled the void,
It spoke the words
That summoned reason.

Maverick4
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Politics As Usual

Our Politicians control us;
The Scientist, they guide us through;
The Ignorant just lead us on,
The Ignorant just lead us on.

Sheep; we're lead down to the slaughter,
Invisible Hands help us through.
How Ignorant! We lead ourselves.
How Ignorant! We lead ourselves.

Can't you see as we bleed here,
The Stars that shine within our eyes?
Juxtaposed; Hallowed policy,
Juxtaposed; Hallowed policy.

You cast up dust to hide behind,
Atleast we'll know one certain fact:
That we know Death will take us home,
Look! Death has come to take us home.

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I'm back, kinda ****ed up school in the last semester but anyway: there is life, there is poetry, what would a soul need more?

One could spend his entire life searching for the perfect poem, and it would not be a wasted life. - Qatsumoto (edited)

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If it's subtle it's even better. I hate when things scream in my face.


So do I, especially when it's my mom yelling.
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Existentialism

Step by step, closer I come,
touching the rocks, rugged.
I feel the moist, the ages,
reminding my brief existence.

There I seek my refuge,
it is somewhat grey, dark.
Not foul, with smell, but cleansing,
as if it all was artificial, a fraud.

I find a rock to sit, to think,
clean water drips down from above,
it fills a pond, erodes the stone,
steels his precious metals. Thief!

Yelling at water. Then silence:
Darkness looks at me, the intruder.
Almost cursing me, for breaking the spell:
almost blaming me, for my pure existence.

His point made clear, I give in,
one solution remains, the eternal one.
I seek for a means to end this,
this lingering, between death and life.

Does it matter? That I was here?
Did it make a difference? And you?
What is your purpose of being?
Existing for the sake of existing?

That will not suffice.
Quirinus1
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How I hate misspellings. I sincerely excuse for that. But do not feel messing up the thread by correcting the hell out of it.

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Missing

Blanketed in darkness,
Hidden by these walls,
Stolen, from my rightful place
Locked away from all.

Shall I never be found?
Just lie here and waste,
Become not more than a skeleton,
In this prison of a place.

A prisoner, even in my own mind.
Trapped, no matter what side I look on.
No where to escape,
Shall I simply not go on?

Is this someone's twisted idea of a game?
I fear I shall never find out.
I know I'll pass before I'm found,
I know what I am; a thing unfound.

Hypermnestra
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Carpe Diem

Carpe diem! Or so we're told
It means to seize the day
They say "risks pay a hundredfold,
Don't throw your life away"

A thing unfound might just as well
Be gone, it's not enough
To live, for the world you must tell
You've diamonds* in the rough

A treasure, if it's left unfound
Will crumble into dust
And riches, though they may abound
Eventually** will rust.

A thing unfound is not the worst:
The thing that truly appalls
Is when, in blindness, you're immersed
And you do not look at all

I'm betting I'll place somewhere around...last.
Heh.

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I'm betting I'll place somewhere around...last.


No, at least second last. I'll be last
Bumbling

Our minds leads us (or do our feet?)
As we bumble along
The neverending street
Some things go well
Some wrong
Whatever may happen
We continue to bumble along

Yes, you can just see the quality of this work.
ug5151
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Todays the day of the results. When will results begin?

wolf1991
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Todays the day of the results. When will results begin?


The submissions will close 11:59pm as always. Judging is posted a few days later.
wolf1991
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Submissions are now closed I should have judging by Tuesday.

ug5151
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It says cormyn commented on this thread 9 hours ago. No cormyn post O_O

cam25
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whens the next contest

wolf1991
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whens the next contest


>.> When I finish judging when else?
TackyCrazyTNT
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>.> When I finish judging when else?


No need to get pouty, Wofleh. :b

It's such a shame that I missed the competition. :/
Stupid packing and stupid banned-from-writing.
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