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message 1: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (last edited Feb 23, 2017 04:52PM) (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
So we're going to start off with something simple, a short poem. The only rules are it has to be around 50 words, and still be just as deep. This can totally be hard to get your meaning across with so few words, but it'll make for a fun challenge. (Bonus points if it's below 25 xP)

Time Period:
2-23-17 through 3-2-17



message 2: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
Masi wrote: "
He was there
Pretending to be my friend
Laughing along

But he despised me
Jealousy
If I only knew

But I saw him talking
About me
Horrible things
Terrible

But it's okay to let certain people g..."


I really love the meaning behind it, and you did a great job of showing it with such a small word limit!


message 3: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
So I'm super bored so Ima make a cute little poem

sun+moon

I think the sun and moon
are siblings,
begrudgingly
giving the other turns
playing with the earth



message 4: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (last edited Feb 23, 2017 05:04PM) (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
Another sweet little poem

goodbye

there aren't enough words invented
for me to show how much my love is true
but I am poison to you,
so there's only one for how I need to say it -
"goodbye"



message 5: by Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~, Challenges + Games Mod (and super amazing poet) (new)

Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~ | 526 comments Mod
Instability seems to
Wash away
Inside so many.
Lunacy and
Limitless power feigned as
Supremacy is felt but
Underneath the
Reasons take root.
Vivid moments
Initiate flashes of
Vitality but we are not
Everlasting.


message 6: by Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~, Challenges + Games Mod (and super amazing poet) (new)

Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~ | 526 comments Mod
Ever emptying thoughts abound in the reckless night
And faceless we circle this
Gaunt earth
Walking its wide shallow bones


message 7: by Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~, Challenges + Games Mod (and super amazing poet) (new)

Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~ | 526 comments Mod
Fake pearl

Not worth anything
Just pretending
Fake and not even trying to hide it
Totally unabashed scamming
No history of forming through struggles and hardship
Down in the depths of the earth
Gauche replication
But you have to admit
Beautiful still, aren’t I


message 8: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (last edited Feb 23, 2017 06:16PM) (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
The sun fell for the moon
But the moon already loved the stars
And every night she died
Just to see the joy in her love's face
As she danced among the cosmos
Because she loved watching her smile


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments Severus~ Jon Snow's brother~Ned Stark's son~Tyrion Lannister is bae~Emilia Clarke, I love you~Game of Thrones is Life~ wrote: "Sigh

All I could do was sigh,
Because there wasn't any sign
Of you....

My hopes had been high,
Wanted to spend all my life,
With you......

But as time passed by,
All I could do was sigh
Because ..."


It's cool that you're willing to take yourself out of your comfort zone though...an the ellipsis add a sense of something unfinished, which I like, because when you're pining after someone you love sometimes the story is never finished...I like it


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments Bookcrazy ~ And I'm still singing hallelujah, hallelujah~ wrote: "Fake pearl

Not worth anything
Just pretending
Fake and not even trying to hide it
Totally unabashed scamming
No history of forming through struggles and hardship
Down in the depths of the earth
Ga..."


Me gusta


Ardent || LoveArdent || Raya (loveardent) | 120 comments The moon grumbles, darkening the day
Up above, haunting away
The sun shines, bright and cheerful
The prey of the moon, fast and fearful

Racing across today's wide sky
Amongst the clouds, hiding, shy
The moon, faded, but still in pursuit
Chasing sun, following same route


Ardent || LoveArdent || Raya (loveardent) | 120 comments wow almost went over the limit XD


Ardent || LoveArdent || Raya (loveardent) | 120 comments Above the dangers
Birds fly high
How I wish I could be them
Inside, I sigh

Spreading my wings
Knowing I won't fall
Hearing the bird's song
And heeding its call


message 14: by Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~, Challenges + Games Mod (and super amazing poet) (new)

Bookcrazy ~ So what? I'm still a rock star~ | 526 comments Mod
~Nadia~♥When You're Happy, You Enjoy the Music; When You're Sad, You Understand The Lyrics♥~ wrote: "Bookcrazy ~ And I'm still singing hallelujah, hallelujah~ wrote: "Fake pearl

Not worth anything
Just pretending
Fake and not even trying to hide it
Totally unabashed scamming
No history of forming..."


:)


message 15: by That Kangaroo (new)

That Kangaroo (darkflames17) | 178 comments I'm calling this poem Mistakes:

I hold a knife drenched in death
blood drips on the floor
lifeless body at my feet
I can't take back what I've done


Harley_Granger127~on semi-hiatus~ | 62 comments Breathe

Every breath,
it's hard to take.
Simply because,
my smile is fake.

Just breathe,
they tell me it helps.
Yet it hurts to do so,
All i can do is yelp


message 17: by kavi ~he-him~ (new)

kavi ~he-him~ (spideykavi) | 148 comments You guys are amazing


message 18: by That Kangaroo (new)

That Kangaroo (darkflames17) | 178 comments Victim

I turn to my lover
and get a knife in my heart
I see his face, my blood
then black takes over


(so this is like a sequel to the other short poem I submitted. the first poem is from the point of view of the murderer. and this is from the POV of the victim)


message 19: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
The moon is like a silvery reminder
That even when we're tired
We can still be strong enough
To move oceans of water,
Because we shine just like the stars


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments Severus~ Jon Snow's brother~Ned Stark's son~Tyrion Lannister is bae~Emilia Clarke, I love you~Game of Thrones is Life~ wrote: "Jeez Nadia, you should criticise me sometime. XD But thanks. I really really really appreciate it."

LOL, sorry, maybe I'm too nice, I dunno *shrugs* I am a 100 percent honest though


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments Black Beauty Bassist wrote: "Victim

I turn to my lover
and get a knife in my heart
I see his face, my blood
then black takes over


(so this is like a sequel to the other short poem I submitted. the first poem is from the poi..."


oh, that's cool, i see how you did that...see y'all, Nadia isn't about that short poem life, lol


message 22: by That Kangaroo (new)

That Kangaroo (darkflames17) | 178 comments ~Nadia~♥When You're Happy, You Enjoy the Music; When You're Sad, You Understand The Lyrics♥~ wrote: "Black Beauty Bassist wrote: "Victim

I turn to my lover
and get a knife in my heart
I see his face, my blood
then black takes over


(so this is like a sequel to the other short poem I submitted. t..."


Thx :D
You should just give it a try. I know you prefer to write longer poems, but give it a try.


message 23: by Akif (new)

Akif Kichloo (akifkichloo) | 13 comments Each day I say a little less;
get a little more fluent in
the art of silence.

We are so in love,
O so connected to each other’s soul;
Every time I swallow my pride
I can practically see you getting
full of it.
So full of it.

—The shit we call love.


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments stabbed through the heart
ice freezing in my veins
sluggishly, I move through life
and shards of what I thought was love
course through my body
tearing me from the inside out
I wonder how I ever thought
that I could be loved


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments @ Black Beauty, that is my attempt, lol


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments Severus~ Jon Snow's brother~Ned Stark's son~Tyrion Lannister is bae~Emilia Clarke, I love you~Game of Thrones is Life~ wrote: " Lovers who could Never Be

I loved you,
You loved me
But we both knew
That we could never be.

Sad lovers
Angry lovers
Looking into the eyes
Of the significant other.

But their pain was somethin..."


Dang, you're always on point, I don't know how you could say you couldn't rock this, you totes do!


~Akweley♡Mazarae♥~★☆★oblivion★☆★~I CAN'T BREATHE~ (nala13) | 322 comments beating down on me
from all sides, angles
surrounding, suffocating
forcing me to feel, to breathe
it won't let me go
so I'm here to stay
and fight
for another day


message 29: by ♥ Emily ♥ , Head Mod (new)

♥ Emily ♥   (emily_turtle) | 429 comments Mod
Btw Bookcrazy, you can start the one for the next week now if you want to run this, if you don't, just let me know :P


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