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Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:24 pm
Virgil says...



@Wriskypump That's perfectly okay! We have no rules about that--write however you want. ;)

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Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:32 pm
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At least there are some people who understand this :smt003
  





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Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:48 pm
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Lumi says...



My entry, which may swap between written and image form depending on formatting and visibility issues.

being held in a safer place than this
Image
I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much
as I will drown everything you have inside.
-Shinji Moon


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Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:13 pm
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TheSilverFox says...



*drops poem in cup*

Spoiler! :
I can't imagine seeing the shingles
on the roof without remembering the day
that you nailed them into place and watched them fall,
your mouth agape when I tried to run for cover
under the trees, darting among their long shadows
(but I laughed then and I wish I could laugh now, sipping this coffee
and wishing my spirits were here enough to reach for the cream);
yet that's exactly what the doctor, in his tinny voice,
is telling me as he paces around my dining room
and tries not to shout as I spill the cup slowly,
aiming for his feet.

***

The heavens now will not answer me; the mountains
turn their pine-laden backs, the clouds shout by their din,
"And do you think I can give you any mercy, frail man?"
while even the lakes swallow the stones I skip
across as their smooth surface, leaving no ripples.
I told you that I would drive myself into the ground eventually,
but I guess I hadn't expected my body to do the deed.

***

My mind still wants to compensate -
it kills me to think the staff will soon tell me
I should have been more cautious, that I should have restrained
years of passion and frailty among the woods,
where we camped and looked for the rarest mushrooms
and the faintest stars, as though I didn't want to burn out
rather than fade away.

***

It kills me to think that you, weeping in the driver's seat,
as you speed off towards the hospital, my letter in hand,
will try to give me the same dreary warnings, as though
I hadn't already driven off the cliff and foundered in the river years ago.
Because, yes, it changes nothing, and never would have.

***

I do not want to go, but if avoiding this demise meant
not seeing your warm face poking from the covers
as you caress my check with a soft hand, then I will gladly walk
into the shadow of the valley of death,
and wait for his grip to carry me upwards.
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
a persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo
non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero,
senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

Inferno, Canto 27, l 61-66.
  





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Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:50 am
Poopsie says...



ok...well... there go my chances


nooot even mad :^)
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Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:05 am
SnowGhost says...



haha
You have as much a chance as anybody
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:41 pm
IvoryRose says...



Are we allowed to enter today or do stop getting poems today?
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:04 pm
SnowGhost says...



Submissions are closed
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Poopsie says...



who won fam?
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Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:59 pm
SnowGhost says...



Kays and I are trying decide but we don't seem to be on here the same time so it's taking a bit
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:45 pm
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SnowGhost says...



Congratulations to the winners
@TheSilverFox, @Poopsie and @alliyah.
We had a hard time deciding, all of your guys poems are amazing.

And all poems entered can still be published, we don't own them or anything.

I would like to give a HUGE thanks to @Kays for her enormous help and for donating the prizes. Seriously Kays I can thank you enough.

Thank you all for participating, you all are awesome poets and people. Adios
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:53 pm
alliyah says...



Thanks for hosting the contest snowmonkey & Kays! :)
you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now
but i have promised to return
  








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