SOP Challenges LUS

Can the same title be used by different poets, or do the have to be reserved?

Alright. Thanks.

The week is up. You may start to enter your poems into here now. (: Good luck everyone.

-Jenna.

Love Letters and Cigarette Ashes.
[Soul Of A Poet]

Grey smoke filled the hazy room cluttered in lies,
As ink was splattered amongst torn pages today,
And between the lines, there was talk of your betray -
Hidden by the scarlet tears in her sky blue eyes.
Torn photographs chant out long forgotten good-byes,
To this tragic affair that she mourns to display;
And the stars in her eyes continue to decay,
As the burning angels sing her a lullaby.

Faded lipstick stains burned cigarette ashes,
And she signs her letter with an ex and an oh;
As she looks to her disguise of fake eye lashes -
And a past that she hides behind her face of snow.
She whispers: “Our love was like silly car crashes,
What really happened to us, nobody knows.”

© Jenna Elphick
December 4, 2006

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Italian Sonnets have 10-11 syllables per line and is composed of an octave (rhyming abbaabba), and a sestet (rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd) or in some variant form, with no closing couplet.

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Memories Unspoken (Terzanelle)
[Lying Under The Stars]

In the Mist of the night
As I sit alone
Looking upon the stars

And calling you my own
Longing for you
As I sit alone

I enjoy the view
And write a note
Longing for you

But this I will promote
As I sit and enjoy the ocean's breeze
And write a note

With such ease
I see your face
As I sit and enjoy the ocean's breeze

My heart will beat that much faster
In the Mist of the night
Looking upon the stars
Just knowing this was all a big disaster

© Copyright December 2, 2006 By: Italian Stallion

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A Terzanelle is a 19 line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is a repetent reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the next-to-last stanza which appears in the quatrain. Rhyme scheme - ABC BDB DED EFE FGF HACH.
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Love Letters And Cigarette Ashes (Italian Sonnet)
[ Lying Under The Stars ]

Letters of love, on the nightstand by her bed
Lover from the past who was hers at one time
Secrets being hidden between every line
Reading so many lies and truths never said
Unwillingly she takes them; rips them to shreds
Memories of him begin flooding her mind
Feelings so strong, she cannot leave them behind
These love letters in her hands remain unread.

Cigarette ashes falling slowly in air,
Those lips she once kissed now hold his cigarette.
A remorseful tear, on his pillow splashes
Remembering their passionate love affair.
Grey clouds over him, he sees her silhouette
Blowing away, with his cigarette ashes.

© Poetess

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Italian Sonnet: Composed of an octave (rhyming ABBAABBA) and a sestet (rhyming CDECDE or CDCDCD) or, in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet. Usually, there are 10 syllables per line, however, Italian Sonnets can also have 11 syllables per line

Memories unspoken (villonet)
By: Mr_blueknight
Club: The Soul of A Poet

Memories unspoken (villonet)

My pillow became grave of thousand tears,
as it drifts down to my eyes through my face.
You can trace memories kept on my chest-
Things from our past still kept in many years.

How can I tell this, please lend me your ears,
as the capsule of time slowly fades,
And when you said, you want to forget them-
My pillow became grave of thousand tears.

Heart broken; I was prickled by countless spears,
Gazing to the photographs when you left;
from the times of grief, and or happiness-
Things from our past still kept in many years.

My pillow became grave of thousand tears,
Sealed with each drops a gold reminiscences-
Things from our past still kept in many years.

BEAUTIFUL MESS (Acrostic)
Bryan
Soul Of A Poet

Being with you has kept me from going insane,
Every look you give me takes away the pain.
All this time one thing was always true,
Unconditional love is what I feel for you.
True love like this is hard to come by,
I've found that this love I can never deny.
For my love for you will always show,
Undying commitment I can never let go,
Little momments like these let me know.

More than anything we will always be together,
Even death wont stop me from loving you forever.
So deep in love, this much my heart cannot strees,
Stuck in love, this is such a BEAUTIFUL MESS.

Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each
line spells a word, usually using the same
words as in the title.

Her Heart Wasn't Unbreakable (parquette)
By Cathy

Her heart wasn’t unbreakable if only he would have knew
He caused her so much pain
When his heart became untrue

Standing there devastated feeling nothing but shame
She now felt more like crying
he caused her so much pain

She asked him why all the lying
He just turned away
She now felt more like crying

He knew there was only three words he had to say
To heal her broken heart
He just turned away

She never dreamed that one day they would ever part
All he had to do was love her
To heal her broken heart

Now her life feels over shes left alone to cry
Her heart wasn't unbreakable if only he would have knew
When his heart became untrue
He made her want to die

you mean show THIS L.U.S. dude* and dudette*. Joe and I are the only ones who posted here. =/

Not cool. lol

EDITED

The Stars Had Names (Terzanelle)
L.U.S.

We meet to sky gaze each night at midnight,
tangibly alone but joint in the heart,
basking disjoined in the winter moonlight.

Cursing the time we spend apart,
we seemingly see the same scene,
tangibly alone but joint in the heart

The air is so cold, crisp, clear, clean.
Come, enkindle me with your embrace.
We seemingly see the same scene

With you everything just falls into place.
Look straight up what star do you see?
Come, enkindle me with your embrace.

Do you see the same thing as me?
Rename the stars to describe the constellation,
look straight up what star do you see?

No escape from my cynical egregious desolation .
We meet to sky gaze each night at midnight,
rename the stars to describe the constellation,
basking disjoined in the winter moonlight.

Is this going to be judged?

L.U.S. doesn't exist anymore...do our poems still count? lol

i dont think this will be finished liz, i guess we will have to redo the contest since the club is gone. but if joe and doug agree, we can use the poems given here, and the new club can add some to it. if its ok with doug and joe.