WINTERCONTEST - AWESOME PRIZES - FINNISHES MONDAY

I would like you to write a poem expressing sadness and coldness and being left out, like what winter brings, you may also choose to write a poem about winter if you like

due date is monday 17th september

6 spaces

1st prize - 20 r/r/c

RESERVATIONS NESSACARY

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2nd prize - 10 r/r/c
3rd prize - 5 r/r/c

Let me know if this is ok

Xx Snow - Palindrome xX

Snow
Gently falling drops
Light with glittering jewels
Floating softly, beautifully waltzing
Gracefully and elegantly
Lightly flickering sparkles
Beautiful yet cold
Flakes

-Mirror Image-

Flakes
Cold yet beautiful
Sparkles flickering lightly
Elegantly and gracefully
Waltzing beautifully, softly floating
Jewels glittering with light
Drops falling gently
Snow

*Gem*
Copyright©GemmaStott2007

Palindrome - Also Known as Mirrored Poetry. A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward. The carefully placed words form the same sentence, whether it is read forward or backward. For example, 'Mirrored images reflect images mirrored' which includes a word in the centre as a reversal point for the sentence or even the poem.

Time Stands Still {Glosa-Verse}

This is a poem based off the song "Seeman," by Rammstein. The quatrain is from that song. It's part of the style.
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So merciless is only the night
In the end I'm left alone
The time stands still
And I am cold
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The autumn wind wipes tears off your face;
Elder women rush to beckon you home.
You are lost amongst the darkness;
Who will be there to hold you
When wind whisks you away?
Shiver in this comfort of fright;
Something finally holds you close!
Hold on to what your memory last saw;
You no longer need them for their light;
"So merciless is the only night."

"Come a little closer," the wind beckons you,
As you grasp onto what thoughts remains.
You're so frightened or quick to forget
They're waiting for you just down the river.
"Come a little closer, my little one," it still beckons,
It reaches your soul; you quiver at bone,
Invisible hands reach around your soul,
Caressing it with hopes of being remembered;
The winds stop; suddenly your wishes are known;
"In the end I'm left alone."

The autumn wind wipes tears off your face
As the elderly women beckon you for home.
There's no where left on these cold streets
Or anywhere else you can call your family.
The moon arises with the stars flanking;
It's God's army you see lighting darkness, and you stand still.
Scamper upon the railing, climbing high;
No one's going to bother coming by,
Wrap your coat closer to you and remember that chill;
"The time stands still..."

You wait for hope and hold your breath,
At the forgotten memories you left behind.
The chill sets in as you release your eyes from the Heavens;
Not even He could save you now.
The autumn wind wipes your tears from your face,
As the lantern light swings on your face as you were told;
"There's death in this place."
The women beckon you inside, but no one saves you;
As you rock off the ledge you sing loud and bold,
"...And I am cold."

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Glosa-Verse
A Spanish form invented by court poets in the 14th and 15th centuries. An opening quatrain, called a 'cabeza' is chosen from another poet, or song. The glosa elaborates or 'glosses' on the quatrain with four ten line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain and their sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth. Example is as follows....

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

Winter Crossing
By: Twisted Heart

A touch of frost has hit my soul
Has chilled my bones
Has left me cold
Inside my heart a winter's flow
Ice pitch darkness
Awaits the snow

A vacant stare from teardrop eyes
Comes quick to shed
Forced alibis
As shadows creep and squat inside
My thoughts are left
No place to hide.

The heart now rises up to breathe
To reach for dreams
and sanity
A summer faith is there, you see
But without hope
It just can't be.

The Winter Crossing seems so slow
Beneath the blankets of the snow.

Forgot to reserve. Please do so now.

Thanks

Jeannie

Reserve please. Thank you =)

Reserve please

I would like to reserve. Thank you.

Midwintertears
By My Decadent

It was a cold winter, so cold even snowflakes shivered...
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Laying frozen on the cold ground,
Killed by the sorrow so profound
I never knew that I could bring -
I knew her tears and did nothing.

Feeble and frail, feeling so lost,
Used to laugh, now choking with frost;
But her heart shall nevermore sing -
I knew her tears and did nothing.

Ignorant of her existence,
I've let her fall in decadence,
But now her eyes will never sting -
I knew her tears and did nothing.

First time I've committed a sin;
I've carelessly pushed her within
The embrace of Death's single wing -
I knew her tears and did nothing.
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It was cold, so cold my heart had froze along with hers...

Can i reserve?

Pearls

Sparkles of a melody in my mind
a chilling song of grief
it tempts me with its unearthly waves
softly falling onto leaf

A memory of hope once found
thrust into the snow
you can only hope that where it fell
another life can grow

Blind in the cold curse of white
a beggar slowly stumbling
the gorgeous sunlight piercing eyes
alone in dust she's mumbling

The rain falling like crystal shards
iridescent with their rainbows
so beautiful the frosty air
blood covered by the snows

Sleeping in frozen grave
no longer breath, just ice
staring at the shining pearls
a mocking end to life

Can I Reserve? (Dunno what that means :S)

Anywoo, if I am reserved...

December Dreams

In this lonely winter
The leaves have long been dropped,
Swept away by the winds,
Forgotten by your heart.
Forgotten how the leaves lit you,

Forgotten how the leaves would shield
The winds that whip you.
The life in the green, no longer seen.
The love that was, now is
Only a December Dream.

by, Richard Machado

RESERVE PLEASE!!!

Cold Snap

The sun melted my skin,
My heart fluttered everyday,
Upon sight you are contagious,
And love had found its way,

But something was so cold,
And winter touched my heart,
Like the fingers upon water,
Like it was about to fall apart,

The rain didn't warm me,
As it fell hard and cold,
Hiding all I am today,
As life now unfolds,

Icicles shatter from my eyes,
And I gasp in despair,
A sudden realisation,
I wish I didn't care,

The pain I had found,
I fear when it turns,
The home I had warmed,
Suddenly it burns,

Forgotten I am scared,
Erased from your minds,
It's too late to undo,
What sadness always finds,

Rain shall fall,
Upon me alone,
Goodbye to you all,
Reborn to stone.

Smile Empty Soul

Footsteps trace the winding path left behind,
As he searches for something he`ll never find,
With his cheeks wind burnt and red, he treks on;
To find a broken heart now forever gone.

His eyes are stripped bare of their bright colors,
And with each step his breath is getting duller --
A soul is etched into the bark of an old willow,
All the words that he screams into his pillow:

"Forever and ever, Baby; down to the last breath --
You`ll either take me in life, or leave me in death;"
Her ways got a hold of him, grasped him by the heart --
Tore him down to insanity and cracked him apart.

An old park bench full of long lost lovers tales,
Sits by a frozen pond as the powdery snow veils,
The sandy bank from three long years ago:
She said she loved him, that he needed to know.

With a bottle of peach wine, they lost track of time;
He slurred out pretty lines to heighten his sublime,
She saw the world when she looked into his eyes,
But her tongue was coated down with pitiful lies.

They rode the empty "I love you`s" for a month or two,
Contaminating the phone lines, seeing each other through;
And he always knew that her naivety would take her there,
But he never paid close enough attention to truly care.

A drunken message on an answering machine,
That`s the last of that girl he ever seen,
But sometimes, when the night is dark and cold;
He`ll walk along this path, remembering what he was told:

"Sometimes, promises are broken by those you trust;
And often, love isn`t really love at all, it`s merely lust;
You`ll find out the hard way that sometimes good-bye`s --
They really are forever, nothing but fantasy coated in lies."

-Jenna Elphick
September 17, 2007

^^ Dunno if that`s what you were looking for or not, but I tried lol