Absolute challenge -ROUND 1- (titled)

I'd like to take "Curse Painted With Prosperity", please. ^^

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

Can I have 'A temple of lies' as my second reserve?

Hurricane Of Chaos

We used to always be so close, us two
Until one day you couldn't handle my joy
Turned on me so fast, never saw it coming
That was the day that I became your toy

Malicious spiteful rumors were spread
Never would have guessed that it was you
Silently laughing when I mentioned my woe
How could you have turned out to be so untrue?

Casually turned my whole life upside down
Deceitfulness was something I just couldn't see
Acting like you cared for me so damn much
When you were actually my worst enemy

Shed so many tears that I lost count
days were passing by hazy and blurred
When did you become so envious?
When did you decide you no longer cared?

Your spiteful actions made me doubt
Every single thing about myself
Never have I been so confused
Couldn't deal with pain that you dealt

My life was once so special and precious
Until you swept by ripping out my heart
Everything I'd carefully built up for myself
You casually, happily, ripped right apart

Everything that was once so perfect
Now left scattered, in disrepair
You left me with a tattered soul
Why is it you no longer care?

Dang.. could you add a title for me? i was looking forward to this.

Breathe the World

On a worn down rock, she sits to think;
As she holds her cluttered thoughts up high,
And the color began to dissolve and sink,
As she caught a golden star in her eye.

Standing, she walks out into the unknown;
Until she comes across two faded roads,
One was walked upon, worn to the bone;
The other was newly paved -- ready to erode.

She held her breath as she closed her eyes,
Holding herself weightless to the skyline:
A warm hue to the dampness of the sunrise --
She lined the horizon with a curved design.

The clouds exploded her thoughts to rain,
As she took off her walking shoes and ran,
Choosing the road etched down with pain,
She came across an old bearded man.

Black rivers streamed gently down her face,
As she stopped and looked him in the eye,
Her teen heart picked up speed, began to race;
When he shuttered awake to sing a lullaby:

"One road held promise, one road held strife;
One road was long and winding, one was straight;
My dear child, you have chosen the one of life;
You are walking the path that defines your fate."

He stopped dead in his tracks, looked ahead;
As she stumbled toward a silver plaque,
"Breathe the world," she muttered in her head;
As she ran forward, there was no going back.

-Jenna Elphick
September 25, 2007

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The old rock is metaphorical for the world. She was trying to find herself and she chose the path of life that looked strenuous instead of easy so that she could find herself. The bearded man was her guardian angel.

Illusive gates
by NyellMoonlight

Worn- out dreams give us bloodstained wings
to replace discarded memories and glass heart,
fragile aura of illusions breaks barriers and walls
waving the bridges of tight rope and vine.

Laced fantasies let us fly, merged with
thin membranes that separate worlds,
somewhere above the moon, on silver waterfalls
we slide to the viaducts built with light.

Corridors made of flames and butterfly's pearls
behind closed door in liquid darkness sleep;
with crossed javelins we demolish dungeons
painted with blurred, opaque grayness.

Master of Dreams

Thoughts collide in memory
Where dreams become reality
Ticking slow the pendulum
Eternal is it's beating rhythm

Re-runs of how it used to be
Forced to watch incessantly
Perpetual shows, voices victim,
Injects my mind with it's venom

Creep forth from recesses deep
No hour have I to find relief
Graffiti littered inner sanctum
Marked for me with it's emblem

Day or night, find no peace
Taunting with no signs to cease
Amnesia, what a thing to welcome
To rid myself this hosting phantom

Melinda Kay Smith

Orb of Hope

A crystal light;
This smothers fright.

A striking beam;
Cast away dream.

Orbiting lies;
Form many different ties.

Powerful and just;
Comfort that's thrust.

The all seeing eye;
Holds everything in spry.

I hold up my orb
For it gives me hope...

Simple Sensation
26 September 2007

(Hopefully ill have 'Visions in Flames' submitted tomorow).

So sorry..Darkspirit can you please unreserve me. The reason will be PMed to you this minute.

Muses Haunt

Magical creatures bound to earth
Unable to separate from magic like a peel from a banana
Searching desperately to help others not just Beaulieu
Eagerly to prove their name is more than just a noun
Scarcely found even when they become the one you hunt

© Sherry Lynn Hull Richardson

Look carefully and you will find that this is actually a double acrostic... the beginning and end of each sentence spells a word.

Since we`re only allowed 2 titles, can I switch mine to Depression Entwined with Smiles, please :]

Library of existance

We're lost in tumult of mixed beliefs by,
fairytales and urban legendes unfold.
Despite every denial and every lie,
we will meet them at the end of the world.

Gypsy witches withered in the cursed flame,
surrendering into mortal accusal.
Werewolves watch the full moon with perfect aim,
hiding in the mists as a deviant mammal.

Vampires dwell the twilight with fanged teeth,
feeding the bane of their immortal plague.
Mermaids watching the world ocean-eyed with,
a beautiful curse rested in their ache.

Dark elves danced on the pale pixie dust,
in the forest of sweetened greenery.
Zombies of tortured souls resurrected,
assembled in cremated sorcery.

Separating our vestal sanctuary,
from an underworld of denied presence.
Potrayed as an infernal augury,
in a vast library of existance.

A temple of lies

While I descend in quiet miseries,
the night confined me in solitary guilt.
Deception escaping my rotting lips,
hurting and confusing the ones I need.

I silently dwell on the other side,
quoting prayers of a perpetual liar.
Suffocating from unspoken verity,
slowly drowning in a sea of fire.

Desolation in my hypocrisy,
enlightening shame upon a careless face.
Going against my mental oddity,
I'm not taking the blame for my mistakes.

I worship the deity of perjurer,
tempted by grievous truth and somber eyes.
From a nomadic to a believer,
I am trammeled in a temple of lies.

House without a home

A house that has no life
lives in great strife
empty all day and night
only has company of fright.

Barren all around
No home to be found
deserted and left alone
all it can do is moan.

With no one to keep it warm
nothing to protect it from storms
just wanting any amount of care
sadly it will be found no where.

Not one happy moment
no security equals torment
memories are so vague
this house is just a plague.

Slowly it dies
but it cant even cry
for it never had a home
it was always just made of stone.

Heartbeat

Waning moonlight crowns a primordial nexus
Native land of Seminole sons' and daughters
Beneath archways of mossy oak and cypress
Twists ribbons of dark tannin filled waters

Feral beasts hunt, tracking by scent of spoor
Carnivorous plants attract with blossoms
Bright colors, sweet nectar, tend to allure
Innocent prey fall to beauty as victims

Low throaty bellows emit an eerie sound
As alligators bask in the warmth of heat
Pod hatchlings stir in nests on ground
Audible pulses of a distant heart beat

Still is the night in this chain of command
Anhingas dine on newly hatched young
Part of a diet that surely was planned
As mothers return to see what has come

Listen to the cries that each of them sing
Okefenokee, "Land of the trembling earth"
Existence of necessity in each living thing
Natures beauty in death just as in birth

Melinda Kay Smith

*** Okefenokee Swamp is located in the south eastern part of Georgia. It's name means "land of the trembling earth" because of hammocks that tremble when stepped upon.

Sorry, I've had this done for awhile, I just didn't feel like posting it and then forgot. =/.
Enjoy. ^^
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Curse Painted With Prosperity

In today's round it's a curse painted with prosperity
There's a chance of sarcasm with windy showers of hate,
And you're looking just as ugly as always, I see,
With a star taped to your wit.

And there's something about that golden merry-go-round
And the look on that slide's smile that makes me shiver.
Trouble's always waiting around the corner, I've found -
Looking around from the swing-set.

In today's round it's a curse painted with prosperity
There's a chance of sarcasm with windy showers of hate,
And you're looking just as ugly as always, I see,
With a star taped to your wit.

"Ring around the rosy, pocket full of <shit>",
And they said speaking my mind was a bad thing
When you're full of cookies and that oh so tasty wit;
(Ashes, ashes, we all fall...)

In today's round it's a curse painted with prosperity
There's a chance of sarcasm with windy showers of hate,
And you're looking just as ugly as always, I see,
With a star taped to your wit.

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

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* A key to my soul*

Dripped in silent admiration, caught in astral exile,
-Don't break this silent orb of natural possessions-
Dripped in frail adoration, caught in highlighted servility
-Please, just avoid all Deity's hovercrafts-

...and he once had a key to my soul, occasionally...
...and he once had clefs for all my tunes, randomly...

Drowned in blackened flood of human's blood,
the dark angel stall; No hope, no chance for survival.
Drowned in blanched tides of human's lust,
the dark angel fall; No chance, no hope for survival.

Golden crown of brightened thoughts of life was broken
under murky clouds that brought toxic rain's showers;
Golden crown of luminous moral of reality was destroyed
by twisted reflections in shattered, unreflective mirrors.

...and he once had a key to my soul.

Visions In Flames
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Engulfed visualisations,
Leading to burning desires;
As visions of the future
Become scarcely seen.

Blurred.

Trapped in deep frozen fire,
Burning towards the unseen;
The unknown enters thoughts
It's all scarcely seen.

Blurred.

Visions have been uprooted,
Away from the soft ground;
The flames continuously burn
It seems scarcely seen.

Blurred.

My visions are in flames,
Burning throughout the night;
They twist - they turn
Seemingly out of sight.

They are scarcely seen. Blurred.

Simple Sensation
28 September 2007

They Called Her "Darkness"
By My Decadent

A black heart will only find beauty in endless dark
Where the shadows of death may tear you apart...

*

Sun setting into a dusk without shadows;
The light dispersed through broken meadows;
Silent steps breaking solitude around -
You can hear everything yet nothing makes a sound.

Second by second - slowly times goes,
The sun has disappeared yet darkness never shows;
No shadow, only light - how can this be true?
You're no where to be found - what are we to do?

They all despise you for veiling the sun,
Yet without you their lives are undone;
They despise how you seem to fill the air with death,
Yet without your presence they can't catch their breath.

**

Once upon atrocity, you swore you'll leave forever
As everyone thought that without you they'd be better;
But how can you have light without dark?
How can you separate night from its darkened heart?

You vanished into thin air... left us all alone;
I still think your shadows were our only true home...
And I still wait for you each day and so-called night,
Waiting for you to come back and veil this dreadful light.

My love, come back, and return into my arms,
Come back once more and surrender to my charms;
I need you to survive, without you I am but ash
As the sun rays could kill me in a flash...

**

Weeks have passed and you're still not here,
It seems as if you magically disappeared...
I can feel the blood inside my veins slowly dry;
Come back, my love, come back or I will slowly die...

I cannot dwell inside this cave anymore;
I need to feed - my hunger is making me sore,
But I cannot dare to face the light outside
Though I'd love to kill all those who made you hide -

Just sink my teeth in their flesh and make them regret
For calling you names and making you upset,
For forcing me to stay in this God forsaken place,
Hiding like a coward, sheltered by sunlight's embrace.

*

They called her "Darkness", I called her my love -
My only protection from the sun above...

Depression Entwined with Smiles

She was the one who laughed the loudest,
Amongst everyone else in our group of friends,
She was the one who made her parents the proudest,
With her striving courage that had no ends.

A smile strong enough to take your breath away,
She stood strong for those who needed her the most,
And she went on in disguise, day after day;
For the good of others, she hid all of her ghosts.

A closet full of skeletons looked me in the eye and lied,
The day she told me that she was finally happy,
So I ignored the feeling that I tried so hard to hide,
And gave her the best wishes, sincerely from me.

I never looked past the silly tears forming in her eyes,
Or the times I seen the bruises under her foundation,
She hid her pain so well under her beautiful disguise,
But the pain she cut into herself was no exaggeration.

You can only get by on fake smiles for so long,
Eventually you`re going to have to face that light,
Depression entwined with smiles led her wrong --
The night that she finally decided to end her fight.

-Jenna Elphick
September 29, 2007

RIP, <3

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Sorry it`s not my best, a very emotional write for me.

The next round will be opened soon, 15 people from this one will proceed to the next.
Big thanks for all who participated.

In the next round go (random order):
1. Rex Hunter
2. NIClean
3. Brittney Schmelter
4. Blank Illusion
5. Andrea Sunny
6. SlaveToTheMusic
7. Beautiful Chaos
8. Painted persona
9. NyellMoonlight
10. Gabriella
11. Poetic Genius
12. Deadboy
13. My Decadent
14. Decay in the dark
15. xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

^Congrats your poems are really amazing, I enjoyed reading them.

Congrats everyone!

Awesome, thank you. ^^ I'm glad you liked it enough to let me go on. ^^

And congradulations/good job to everyone else. =]

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex

Thank you!!!!
the other poems were all so good!!!!

Wow, Thanks alot. =]
I'm glad you liked that poem. I loved your titles so I look forward to the next round. Congrats to everyone else.

I will p.m. all who pasted in the next round when I open the second round! ( I read poems of all of you again and you are so good) I must congrats to all! :]

Second round started! :]