ABSTRACT POETRY**DEADLINE**OCT>23rd

Hello Everyone! This poetry contest is going to need some thinking. This is an Absract poetry contest. You must think of something, use it as your title, and use comparisons or relations with something totally different from it. If you still dont understand, check out my love poem "Starfish". to see what I mean. Good luck to all.

Deadline: Oct. 23rd
Requirements:
~Atleast 2 stanzas long
~must be yours
~doesnt have to be new
~must be posted by 10 am on the 23rd of october.

Prize:
~Top 5 will recieve 10 comments and 10 votes

*NOTE* After the contest is over and top 5 are decided, everyone participating in this contest will choose who they think top 2 are out of everyone and those 2 ppl voted for by the end of the day on the 24th will recieve up to 20 votes(If you dont have 20 poems for me to vote on then I will just vote on all of the ones you do have.Simple as that). Good Luck.. :D

Hmm, I will read your poem now to try and better understand the concept lol.

-Jenna.

well it's not really about the title

Reflection

Here I lay and I still am awake
Trying to cover my latest mistake
That I loved her but her love was never encountered
Now I lie in my dreams and she's still haunting me
Everywhere that I look she is all that I see
No matter how far I have wandered.

For I met her that day, and it all seemed so right
We were together the whole day and the whole night.
And the fire just seemed to keep burning.
She said she loved me and I said it too.
She said that this strange feeling was new.
And I never thought that I'd be crying.

I lay here in the dark just recalling it all.
Wondering what I did just to make it all fall.
And my sleep just seems so far away.
Walked all around looking at a happy photo
Now my life is just filled up with sorrow and woe.
And it seems things just never go my way.

I look in the mirror but don't see myself
What did she do to me; I'm like the only sad elf.
And it hurts that she just wanted to move on.
The mirror tricks my mind, it makes me go insane.
My reflection is so dark as if I'm caught in rain
And I now feel like what I have done is real wrong.

My reflection shows me as I'm seen by the world
But it cannot show me that I feel like I've hurled
And I feel like I might drop and die.
Since she left me I'm dying.
Before her I was lying.
And now I am just asking why.

So it's all over now, enough time has gone by
Now I'll try to sleep on it, I'll say my good bye
And now I will forget all that I've done.
So I now get her body and take it outside.
I dig up the hole it's the end of the ride.
And now that she's gone, I have won.

good poems people keep it coming remember the deadline is the 23rd so you have plenty of time to think about your topic and get it together. Best of luck to all! :D ~Ashley Paul

BTW just so I am 100% sure, what does the penguin stand for. Is it like, the white is for good and the black is for evil, kind of like your conscience..you know the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other and both telling you what you should do? I am guessing thats what it is...post back

ok im not positve so could you chekc out my poem- My Shadow? im not sure if it fits.. hmmm...

anf if it doesnt maybe Tornado?
i need a lil more explaining.. lol. i wanna enter this.. but id really get it.. sodo those of my poems work(i want towrite a new one i just want an exapmplke of what does and desnt work)

x.x:Lauren

Delete.

Happiness
Jeannie

Invisible Spider Web

Why must I be tortured in this cell
It must feel good to be in hell
These padded walls and skulls must be very thick
My screams of sanity are thought to be sick

(Chorus)
So I'm falling
Into this padded room
The callings
Will engulf you
I'm just caught in an invisible spider web

Force this medication down my throat
Hope it will not work, hope it won't
Why do they put this jacket on me
Just because I'm not the same
I'm labeled that of insane
Maybe I'm just a little extreme

(Chorus)
So I'm falling
Into this padded room
The callings
Will engulf you
I'm just caught in an invisible spider web
It's haunting
Yes I know
The feeling
Of forever alone
I'm just caught in an invisible spider web

I am invisible
Where I'm vulnerable
Spider webs invisible
Caught and extinguishable

(Chorus)
So I'm falling
Into this padded room
The callings
Will engulf you
I'm just caught in an invisible spider web
It's haunting
Yes I know
The feeling
Of forever alone
I'm just caught in an invisible spider web

No.Need.For.A.Name.

Growing ends where the mind Began

A rhythmic beat on the ground;
Two little red knobs,
Turning, spinning over again.
While a smile; such a sweet smile,
Painted upon plump, young cheeks.

Throughout time this rope swung,
Like a pendulum of a clock.
Ignorant of the passing time;
Trying to linger just a bit more,
Till finally the threads became limp.

A child no longer; dreams to be free.
Suddenly empowered by shadows of laws
Feeling for the first, rising cheeks of shame,
Knowing just right now, everything was a play ,

Ok people..

Make sure you have read my example STARFISH.
Here it is for all you ppl who are too lazy to go look at it:

Starfish
by Ashley Paul

You mess with my heart
And tear it to peices
with hurtful lies
and deceitful teases
You say I will be fine
when you dont know me at all
The littlest things make me cry
The simplest things make me fall
My heart is not a starfish
once broken, it stays the same
You think that I am joking,
You think this is a game
My heart does not get bigger,
only smaller by the day
If you want to get closer
hurting me is not the way
My heart is not a starfish
that can be cloned and duplicated
my heart is a tender, precious treasure
that should be loved and appreciated.

Copyright © Ashley Paul

Make sure that before you submit your poem you have answered yes to these questions-
~ Am I relating TWO totally different things in a unique way?
~Does it make sense to readers?
~Is the title, one of the things you are relating?

Example ppl:
~Yes, I am relating a starfish and my heart in a unique way.
~Yes it makes sense to readers.
~Yes I named it STARFISH since that is one of the things I am relating.

Now I dont have time to be checking over everyones poems so sorry... Just follow the instructions and do your best. Dont make this any harder than it is. It really is quite simple. The hardest part is thinking of a unique way to relate or compare two things. You have until the 23rd so do not rush things..Good luck!
~Ashley Paul

Also, if your poem is posted and you think that your poem does not answer yes to all three questions..delete it! Thank you.

Winners:
1st- Bob Shank
2nd- No need for a name
3rd- Oscar
4th- Oracle

Not so good of a turn out...only 4 poems. Sorry I am late but we have been testing the past two days and I couldnt get to a computer. Congratualtions everyone. Prizes will be given today or tomorrow so dont worry..

Also since we didnt even have 5 ppl i am giving 1st place the reward and everyone else will have one comment and one vote. sry