Place Your Poetry Here!

[Zgirl]

My poetry sucks, I wrote a poem in school today about how evil Neopets is and how it takes over little siblings' minds. My teacher loved it but it was so stupid!

[Melissa]

Ah well I am gonna stop posting My poetry 'cause everyones eles is better then Mine. OMG!!! It is soooo much better

[Duncan]

Thank you for that insight agent m.............however i have3 already posted an anouncement for poetry.com at the beegining of this. YOUR message will probably get other people's attention more than my post wil......thank you!

P.S. still send in that poetry, it is wonderful!

[Agent M]

Ok this isn't a poem but I suck at that anyways but here's a contest that got sent to my email:
The International Library of Poetry has just announced that over 1175
prizes, totaling $58,000.00, will be awarded in the International Open
Amateur Poetry Contest. The contest is open to everyone, and entry is
free.

Most of the prizes will go to new, unpublished poets who have never
before entered- or expected to win- any type of writing competition. Poets
who enter will also get additional opportunities:

Click here to enter
http://www.flowgo.com/track.cfm?a=2393&d=05-28-04
<A HREF=http://www.flowgo.com/track.cfm?a=2393&d=05-28-04>AOL Link</A>

* Your poem will be featured on our website- www.poetry.com

* Your artistry may be chosen for publication in one of our deluxe
hardbound
anthologies.

* You could be invited to read your poetry at our annual convention.

* You can learn how to get your poetry published on internationally
distributed greeting cards, calendars, and a host of other products.

* Your poem may be put to music and heard on a professionally recorded
album.

Just in case anyone felt like entering....

[Lilly]

Going so Old School for this, but it's one of my favorites.


Sarah's Contemplation
by Elizabeth


A life spent in misery?
A life spent in a gilded cage?
I can not chose.

Tormented in spirit
and troubled in my heart
my restless soul's at war in my breast-
there is no peace for me.
Those golden days of my childhood
have abandoned me
to the harsh realities of the adult world,
its play of cruel conflicts.
Life doesn't have to be this way;
I remember feeling at peace with you.
Take me
once again into your arms.
Within the charmed ring,
the circle of your arms enfolding
me drawling me into you
forever, I will be at peace.

Jumping at shadows
living my life in doubt
uncertain of what lies ahead-
I'm anxious all the time.
When I was younger I went headfirst,
reckless, into danger.
Now that I've grown in my experiences
I have learned to dread.
Life doesn't have to be this way ;
I remember feeling safe with you.
Hold me close,
keep me sheltered from the world
With me held by your side,
the power of your will protecting
me, holding off sorrow
forever, I will fear nothing.

I live without my dreams
in a practical existence
of plain black and white
with no shades in between.
As a child my imagination
could take me anywhere.
Now it's gone, stranded me
in the physical world.
Life doesn't have to be this way;
I remember living out my dreams with you.
Resurrect my dreams
offer them anew.
Within your eternity,
the magic of your world consuming
me and keeping me child-like
forever, I will dream again.

Writhing in shame
embarrassed by what I've said
or things done so carelessly
I wish I could be free of their memory.
In the days of my daring youth
I never pondered consequences.
Now all grown up I have to consider
just what could happen next.
Life doesn't half to be this way;
I remember nothing with you.
Make me forget
take the memories from me.
With you always in my mind,
the oblivion of your thoughts engulfing
me sucking me under
forever, I will forget.

A life spent in misery?
A life spent in a gilded cage?
I can not chose.

All that's left for me is Death...

[Duncan]

Yes aroura i think you have a very interesting style...mine tells a story yours tell feelings. I wish i could write like you but i reslly can't nomatter how hard i try......ooh well. SED MORE POETRY

[Aurora]

hmm... your styles are all very different than mine. ^^

...makes you wonder
what's real
what's not.
you stare at her
at him
at them
you've known them forever
(or so it seems)
and yet
what's real?
doesn't seem like I know anything
about him
her
you
do I?
are you the person I think you are
or just another masquerade?
am I the person you think I am?
or am I too, another masquerade?
who are we
really?

Hmm... And here's one just written on the spot... inspired mostly by something Alastair told me once...

Look down
What do you see?
Space
the ground looks so far away...
So far away...
what would it feel like
to jump?
and know
you don't have to worry anymore
care anymore
cry anymore
in that last half-inch.
you can close your eyes
sigh
and say goodbye.

...we were talking about the grand canyon at the time...

Hmm, Alastair-kun writes awesome stuff. I've read a couple of his love poems... they're complete opposites, but they're beautiful... part of the appeal is that he wrote them in french.

And so you know- Poetry.com is like a huge scam. they do everything they say they do, but it means nothing.

[Zgirl]

Duncan. Love is where you stop saying I and start saying We. Anyways, I think people really enjoy love poems and stories and movies because they imagine themselves that way. Seriously don't you really think about it after you read a novel?

[Duncan]

[Melissa]

Those are my fave. ones you sent me. There were a few others I liked to but if you want happy poems you will have to wait until I save them on my disk sorry I don't want to type them all

[Duncan]

[Melissa]

I have some more happy ones at school if you want them I can post them but that's only if you want them. Otherwise I won't waste my time saving them on to a disk Hee Hee Here's another one ^__^


Always and Never
By: Melissa Paquin

I never liked you in the first place
I never to your see the stars with you
I always have loved the stars

I never have flown on a star
I always have loved your hair
I never liked you in the first place

I always have loved you
I never have seen your face before
I always have loved the stars

I never got to say I love you
I always got to see you
I never liked you in the first place

I always loved your lips
I never liked the sun
I always have loved the stars

I always have loved you
I always have loved to read
I never liked you in the first place
I always have loved the stars

[Zgirl]

Okay those were all really good Lissa. But they were all kind of on sad topics. Anyways most poems and songs are on sad topics, uplifting topics, or topics most people really shouldn't talk about.
I think you' ve inspired me to write a poem. I'm going to try to write a good one.

[Melissa]

[vegan_chick]

She turned away
scared and numb
there was no reason to stay
so she started to run

She felt no sadness
only fear, lonliness, and despair,
emptiness and helplessness
but she didn't really care

about tommorow or yesterday
she just wanted to get away

to run away forever
to hide from the world
rather than suffer this endeavor
she'd leave the life she knew for good

and as she was running
she couldn't help but think
so she stopped to ponder
and take a drink

and as she took out her bottle
out came instead
a picture of her parents
gone, deceased, dead

This didn't have to happen, she thought
If only the people that hit them had been taught
that DUI
costs a life or two
theyd've been more careful
if only they knew

So she spent her life
spreading the word
and she remembered her parents
and that inspired her

And she thinks of the lives
that could be saved
and she thinks of the difference
that she has made
and now she is glad
that she didn't run away