Creative Writing Poetry Contest

Challenge write a poem in 30 minutes. Any style and it can be about anything this is all welcome for this challenge. I felt like doing a rhyme scheme just because it is hardier and makes me work more.

It really isn't a contest there will be no prize awarded. It is just for fun. Plus it will help any up and coming M2A writers to set deadlines. I hate deadlines but if you want to really write then a deadline is needed. With this poem I am actually going to start writing again. I have stopped for months.

To me it was actually fun writing a poem in thirty minutes. It is a little cheesey but I still like it.

Here is my poem.

For my Son

I will never doubt you
For all the things you do
I will always be there
Because I care for you

I will never get angry or yell
I will never tell you to go to hell
This is all because I do care
I love you and you can always tell

I will never scream
I will never destroy your dreams
With all these things I have a dare
That we hopefully always be a team

 

Ach! I'll go one up and just right a poem as fast as I can!


I Must Go On
For years I ran
In denial of the past
But since it began
I knew I could not last
Giving in, I caved
Kind of sold out
Could not be saved
Lost what I was about
What is the reason
To what I do
Like mental treason
'Cause I betrayed myself too
I don't know why
I'm falling down
Spirits not high
Instead they drown
Although my mind ails
I know inside
I must not fail
For too much rides
On what I do today
Failure's not an option
Can't make this go away
For the end has begun
Now as my mind aches
And all ambition's gone
Too high are the stakes
And so, I must go on

Kind of self-depressing, but written in the space of 10 minutes or so. Take that.

 

Figures try to add a little fun then someone goes and makes it a competition. Sure I will take that and do it in less.

Forgiveness

Should I forgive you?
For all the pain you caused
Shall I forgive you?
For all the tears you brought
Could I forgive you?
For all the mistakes you made
Must I forgive you?
For all the wrongs you've done
Will I forgive you?
For the time I wasted on you
Did I forgive you?
For the hurt you did to me
Can I forgive you?
For the trouble you found
I will forgive you when I do
It may be childish to you
But at least I still talk to you

Done in three minutes.

We should all just have fun with it now. Even though I liked how I did that one.

Just have fun with it. 30 minutes or less.

 

Okay here we go!


Destiny

I have lived for thousands of years
older than gods, older than mountains, older than suns
I am blind yet I see all
Nothing can escape me
I am tallest to mortal eyes

I have always been here
But many times gone unnoticed
My home is a laberinth
always changing and never ending
Just like me

I have seen the chains of Heaven
And the roses of Hell
I have been here since the begining
and will be here at the end
For I will never die

I am Endless


That was inspired by Destiny of the Endless from the Sandman chronicles. Hope you liked it. I did it in less than 10 minutes.

 

Hooray for Haiku!

Gaea

She sits in forests,
Seeing the Eternity Cycles,
weeping tears of joy.

 

Okay, I can't beat three minutes. But I can TRY!

Futility
Mist clouds my view
All around, I look
But I see nothing
I step forward
But I stumble
Falling down
Something hard
Jabs my side
Hits my face
I try to arise
But lack the strength
There is nothing left
I feel it now
Reaching down
A hand outstretched
Pulls me again to my feet
So I can fall again

Elapsed time: 4 min, 38 sec. I didn't think I could do a 3-minuter. You win this round!
More of my self-depressed stuff ... I guess to write that quickly I have to tap into real emotion, and I'm just not in a happy place this week.

 

Uhhh... you had 30 minutes. Three. Zero.

 

I was trying to beat Basher19's record. Read other people's posts before attacking mine, por favor.

 

You could always write haiku, or two haiku! Or more!

 

Yeah, but haiku are kind of cheap because they're so short. I mean, I might as well write a rhyming couplet, or even a limerick. I'd rather write something I put thought into, even if it's something I scramble up in a couple minutes. I mean, I could probably average 2 haiku/minute if I really tried. Not to say I'm going to.

 

There once was a guy from San Fran
Whose wife used to look like a man
She met her new hubbie
Who's real short and stubby
Now she shaves as much as she can.

I tried. It's decent. Maybe two-thirty time-wise. Not bad.

 

Huzzah for limericks!

 

I actually have to write some poems for class, so I'm glad I found this now. It will have more to it if I choose to use it for class since it needs to be longer for my assignment (it's hard to keep it interesting for 100 lines).


The Line

Don't forget, she said
Don't forget about the thin little line
That separates flesh from ash
Don't forget where you came from
Or it will be too easy to destroy it

He destroyed it
When he looked into her eyes
The shimmer of blue foil
Wrapped his hands around her neck
Not the usual caress

And squeezed the life away

Now he sits and stares at the sky
Blue like her eyes
Empty like her flesh
From which the soul has flown

He erased the line for her

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

 

Seraquiel

Lets raise our cup, most treasured friend,
to love that'll never be,
Let's hide our tears in ale steins,
and love eternally.

Lets hide our fears 'mongst the cannon flame,
our breath cut short by them,
Our last gasping breaths dedicated,
to that final requiem.

There's a light in your eyes,
what is the cause, my love?
Have you found peace at last?
That shining spiritual dove?

I can't go with you, no I can't,
I've things I've yet to do,
I wish I could, however,
and in this my word be true.

Our hearts are filled with bittersweet thoughts,
bleeding like spiritual ticks,
and our souls are pained yet joyful things,
a blazing, screaming phoenix.

You slip away now...
this plane of life you've left,
and yet despite my sadness,
of love I'm not bereft.

 

In mythic past we live beneath
From the depths they rise,
above, to liquid skies.

The Black the First did leave behind,
For vast and beautiful Blue
But that, in time, be ended too

For upon the hardened shell above,
Baked and bare, there shall appear another
Arm and leg, in likeness a brother

But different in telling ways
In youth they coat their crust
They use and burn with murder's lust

When all is gone they will progress,
They shall seek to fill the hollow sky,
Full and starved then turn to blue with hungered eyes.

In the light of vengence and weapons old,
An alliance made, of born a lie,
To drown the the liquid and parch the dry

 

This one has no title...

My hand breaks through the crusted ground,
my mind knowing that a better world is bound,
my eyes are to see the whole world
my legs to walk through land and sea,
Fate and destiny wont tell me but here is where i should be.
Somewhere else........

I think its pretty (blah) in my opinion

 

Mindraped

por que es el cielo rojo
es porque te odio
cuando estoy contigo
la muerte es mi deseo

Los palabras me dices
No significan nada


BLOODY ****ING HELL!

I actually wrote this on Thursday. I was trying to write something in Spanish, and just ended up with a really bad headache. Took me about twenty minutes. Writing in a second language is hard ...

 

"Nothig Else Will Change"
By: Harbinger Of Nothing (Thats Me...)

Well, I saw what seemed like the end....
But, t'was the begining of a new chapter
Its different now that im polinating
Ive yet to see this face again...
The mirror's become too tainted with what seems like blood...
No, too dark to mimic our radiant life blood

I fade away
As my eyes stay fused, to the eternal cracks
A screaming portrayed of self-distaint and.....nothing
All at once....

It paved the way for my return to this land...
Plagued with frozen dreams and distilled visions

Father, tell me....
Where does one hide...
When all that he feels inside....
Plagues him from behind?

And breathe into me....
These sins of my beloved no one....

So, as I sit, trying to conjure poetry...
Sad like Christmas cloaked in rain....
Nothing changes....


.....Dedicated to every man,women,or goldfish who's never been there for me...

 

I Accept This Challenge!

Title: Soupe À La Crème De Choufleur
Author: Jessica Rose Marcotte (a.k.a MT)


Every day I rise again.
My honour, very life to defend.
Should one blow go awry,
If one slash goes unchecked,
There goes the balance thrown.

If there is need for battle,
Let there be need for peace.
Should one want peace,
One must prepare for battle.
Two sides of the coin, flipped.

How many are the gains,
that so many should be lost?
If a sacrifice must be made,
Shouldn't the leader pay the cost?
Let the leader pay the cost!

How many are the stinging blows,
Scarring, bruising, causing pain?
Twelve or twenty, forty- thirty?
Guess only the Trinity knows.
The evidence is washed away by rain.

Drops fall, hanging from a ledge,
Irregularly are they timed.
What do such drops signify?
They can be torture, pain.
They can be the sound of peace.

And what is peace, but a fleeting dream?
Peace and war, both are just illusions.
And what is war, but wanton destruction?
An outlet for our shattered dreams.
War is just an outlet for our shattered peace.

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That little piece took 14 minutes and 40 seconds to complete. This is kind of fun!

Edit: Title changed

 

THOUGHTS
by:
endless_pain

thoughts of you makes me wonder
thoughts of you makes me sigh
thoughts of you makes me cry
just remembring our past life

I wonder if i ever existed or am i a dream of faith
I wonder if you see me, i wonder if you're there
I said i love you but you didnt care
I said i miss you but you just walked away

My hearts full of painful tears
tears that were never washed away;tears that are full of love that is now fading fast
I said i like you and you just laughed your heart out
i said i cared for you but still you didnt care

And now im standing here alone thinking of our painful times together
my heart aching my head screaming
i dunno what to do anymore
help me i'm confused...
Am i gonna leave you standing..or do i continue on loving you?


i made this poem myself! and i'm proud of it!