Worth a Thousand Words

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Hey guys,
I've been away from the site for awhile and I'm thinking the best way to get back to it is by doing a contest!
Anyways, I'm very inspired by pictures. Some of my poems were only written because of the emotions that I felt after seeing a certain picture and I want to read your poems that were inspired by visual art.
So here's how it's gonna work. I'm gonna post 5 links to different inspirational pix I've found and two poets can reserve a spot for each pic.

RULES:
1. One poem per poet
2. Doesn't have to be a new poem but if you've written it before this contest make sure it fits the picture you've reserved.
3. MUST reserve!
4. Poems must be longer than 2 verses no longer than 15 (four lines to a verse)
5. BE ORIGINAL AND HAVE FUN!

CONTEST ENDS JULY 6TH!

PRIZES:
1st place: 15 r/r/c
2nd place: 10 r/r/c
3rd place: 5 r/r/c

Dream-catcher
http://weheartit.com/entry/10545908
~ Lady Nik {DONE}
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Mask
http://weheartit.com/entry/5414059
~Lebanese Phoenix {DONE}
~Peace In The Womb {DONE}

Shame
http://weheartit.com/entry/10519186
~ Beautiful Chaos {DONE}
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Mourning
http://weheartit.com/entry/9855374
~ Hurtingsoul {DONE}
~ Kilpatrick {DONE}

Carousel Horse
http://weheartit.com/entry/10542905
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Side note: Explicit poems are allowed but if it's explicit please just send me a link to the poem and don't post it in this public forum. Thanks! And good luck!

Applying for: MASK category
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MASQUERADE

Go ahead. Relax. Let your mask fall.
There's no one here to see you at all.
Outside - the right place to put it on.
Here, the eyes you're afraid of are gone.
Liar. Your time came to retire.
It's a job - truth you can't attire.
Unreality , just falsity -
extraterritoriality?
I'm afraid no. Outside, I can flee.
Here, you're a total stranger with me.
"You're the world to me, my son", you say
only in front of them; that's the way!
Inside, you're the devil in disguise.
The real you unties: lies. No surprise!
*Phony you*'s underplayed, I'm afraid,
Drop it. It's over - your masquerade.

By: Abed
This is the link to this poem on my profile:
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=1166459

Come on guys! I wanna see what you all can come up with! :)

I choose Mourning, however, my poem is not about mourning.
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Three Hidden Faces

They were just three
Each one masking,
A different feeling
A different story-

The first one hid
Something wet
Barely unshed,
Tears

God
Only knows
The pain and regret
On her face wishing to be seen.

The second one concealed
A chilling little smirk
What about?
Pleasure,

Desire,
To murder.
What!? How could she?
Your fear is why she's masked

The third one obscured
Hundreds of scars
Recent and-
Old

Eyes
Colored blue
Are the only ones
That know the beatings she suffered.

All three bow their heads
Because if the world knew
The faces behind the veils
All hope would be lost.

I am going to reserve Shame

Mask
http://weheartit.com/entry/5414059

Uncover the Exposition

There's beauty
Then there's treachery,
A snare taunted with lies.
I hide my emotions
By camouflaging
Any truth in my eyes.

You've tumbled
On the cloak of my heart,
Won't you unstitch it?
Scatter the glimmer
And kill the lights,
For they only reflect
The blackness I shine.

Break
This
Flawless
Defense.

Do you always
See me as a rusted
Masterpiece?
I grasp your shoulders
In the candlelight,
You respond with
Chains,
No escape for me.

Wordlessly I fall.

My own lips have thorns
The size of your wrists,
Welts upon welts
Yet you let me live on.

Fight the sleep tonight.
Wrestle these pins that
Pierce
My mind.
Find me here.
Help me defy.
Get me to die.

The Awakening

Burning embers of desire
She swore would remain dead
Reborn in those supple lips
Seared inside her head

She hid her face, a mask of shame
For all she thought she was
Could it be that life can change
When she feels it never does?

Is this feeling deep inside
The beating of a heart?
Temptation waking all she thought
Sweet love had torn apart

She couldn't bear the world to see
Her naked, fearful soul
Though heaven was before her now
She must fain some control

Dream-catcher please

"Luna"

Luna--
daughter to the moon
shivering away her sadness
with rain dropped clouds
cloaking her weary hands,
from the many scars
brought on by lightening.

[Fire] a scarlet escape from
the water surrounding her
thoughts. Breathing from
time to time to blend in
with the rest of humanity.

They wonder, oh how they
wonder, why she never sleeps...

She wears a dream-catcher
on her thigh so she'll never
miss out on the dawning
of an evening sky. She wears
a crescent on her heart so
she'll never forget where she
came from.

Luna--
fallen from the heavens with her
halo in her pocket waiting for the
day she's called back home.

There is a Lebanese 26 episodes series called "Luna" about a beautiful girl that was sold by her evil-poor parents to a wealthy Spanish family. When they die, she decides to come back to the village with all the money she has seeking revenge!
You reminded me of it.. GREAT one! :D

Thanks :]

One week left people! Still time to join! :)

I would like to reserve Mourning:http://weheartit.com/entry/9855374

Mankind

Standing together trapped in their memorial.
Dressed in flowers with longing looks to the floor.
Here heavy cloaks meet cemented emotions.
Pierced with grief and stripped from movement.

Where things are better left unsaid, unnoticed, ignored, pushed aside, pushed down, and drowned. A place where pain comes in multiples of three.
Where no tears are to be seen. Sitting still in silent sorrow.

Frozen in time, forever motionless and cursed in a moment of sadness to outlive us all.
When all is gone the world will continue mourn as they mourn. The sun and the moon will take turns to look down as they look down.
In the end all complications are simplified and what you see are the reflections of flesh presenting bowed heads for mankind.

Ok guys here are the results!!

1st place: Kilpatrick

2nd place: Hurting Soul

3rd place: Beautiful Chaos

Everyone did a great job! Thanks for all the entries! Congrats to the winners! I'll be giving the winners their comments as soon as possible!

Thank You for the contest!

Thank you for the amazing poem! :) I should be getting all your comments in today! :)

Thank you very much :) and congrats to all

Congrats'