Poetry Writing Contests discussion

Darkness is often seen as something to be feared and has a negative connotation. I'm challenging all my fellow poets/poetesses to write a poem about how darkness can illuminate what you didn't know what was there. So write about how a difficult situation taught you something about yourself, or how you can't really appreciate the light until you've experienced the dark....I dunno, take it anyway you want (we'll vote afterwards)

Limit: 2 poems
Start Date: March 8th
End Date: March 17th

I'm so excited to write about this one, hun!

So this is not the greatest poem but hey whatevs

Pottery

I know what it is to be weak
to have your family fall apart,
and to be used as a wall
between two parents
I know how it shatters a little kid's heart

I've been broken before
shattered and left laying on the ground
left to cry in my bedroom
at night
when no one hears a sound

But I survived
and sometimes I just need to remember
that my pain,
my sorrow and tears,
have made me stronger than ever

I'm like a broken piece
of Japanese pottery
because I survived being broken,
survived shattering on the ground
with no one but me to fix me

I've got veins of gold
oh how they look so pretty
but they mean more than just
shimmer and sparkle,
they mean that the darkness didn't defeat me

Shining in the Dark

I never knew I could feel this way
Empty
Betrayed
Empty
Played

I thought I was safe from those to come
Haters
Breakers
Haters
Fakers

I thought I could tell you what it meant
Love
Life
Love
Strife

I thought I knew the right and wrong
Good
Night
Good
Light

I thought the light could change me, break me, make me
Brave and
Strong
Brave but
Wrong

Light is right, isn't that so?
No, it
Lies
No, it
Dies

No, I became who I am because of something else
Something
More
Something
Core

It showed me how to be strong in the real way
The way of
Night
The way of
Sight

And I learned so many things
How to
See
How to
Be

I could be myself, finally, because I've faced them all
The
Worst
The
Cursed

I didn't die, but instead, I
Lived
Thrived
Lived
Revived

I don't need the light
Because I now know how to fight
Independent
Alone
Independent

My own

Dancing

I still dance on in the darkness
Even though your evil hides the light
I still sing hallelujah in the night

Even though the dusk falls deep
And haunted dark denies all sleep
I still dance on in the darkness

Though like spies the shadows search
Empty wraiths you can’t even fight
I still sing hallelujah in the night

Even though sometimes we fall
And think sunrise may never come at all
I still dance on in the darkness

Though like embers falling our lives
Flicker and die in the fading light
I still sing hallelujah in the night

Though in the night everything falls cold
And no one dares to speak of right
I still dance on in the darkness
I still sing hallelujah in the night

࿅ ❀ || qυєтzαℓqυєєη || ι'νє gσт тнє мαgι¢ ιη мє , '¢υz єνєяутнιηg ι тσυ¢н тυяηѕ ιηтσ gσℓ∂ || ❀ ࿅ wrote: "Shining in the Dark

I never knew I could feel this way
Empty
Betrayed
Empty
Played

I thought I was safe from those to come
Haters
Breakers
Haters
Fakers

I thought I could tell you what it meant
..."

Damn...that's awesome!

@Evie and Alex, thanks, LOL, I saw that quote and that made me think of the perfect idea for a contest, though I lowkey thought it wasn't all that original, lol

Haha nah it's a good contest no one cares how original it is, it's your idea in this group ;)

~Nadia~♥Love The People Who Saw You When You Were Invisible To Everyone Else♥~ wrote: "࿅ ❀ || qυєтzαℓqυєєη || ι'νє gσт тнє мαgι¢ ιη мє , '¢υz єνєяутнιηg ι тσυ¢н тυяηѕ ιηтσ gσℓ∂ || ❀ ࿅ wrote: "Shining in the Dark

I never knew I could feel this way
Empty
Betrayed
Empty
Played

I thoug..."

aw thanks //^,^// and thank you for giving me the jumping off prompt XD I literally can't write without one i just get stuck when i don 't

࿅ ❀ || qυєтzαℓqυєєη || ι'νє gσт тнє мαgι¢ ιη мє , '¢υz єνєяутнιηg ι тσυ¢н тυяηѕ ιηтσ gσℓ∂ || ❀ ࿅ wrote: "~Nadia~♥Love The People Who Saw You When You Were Invisible To Everyone Else♥~ wrote: "࿅ ❀ || qυєтzαℓqυєєη || ι'νє gσт тнє мαgι¢ ιη мє , '¢υz єνєяутнιηg ι тσυ¢н тυяηѕ ιηтσ gσℓ∂ || ❀ ࿅ wrote: "Shini..."

It's the truth love, and I totes understand that, sometimes if I don't have any internal inspiration, like, my emotions or something, I need a prompt or I'm totes lost, I ain't got nothing *holds up empty hands*

Starlight

Star light,
bright in the empty sky
pretend that everything is fine
while I live your lie.
You dance on,
decade-old sunlight though I
will be much too late
to mourn you if you die.

Still, you never even try
to ask me why,
or offer a reason for being
other than what I’m seeing.
Yet on and on I hear your
whispers in the night,
every time you dance up in the sky:
You are surrounded by dark unknown,
you are million-mile alone,
you are cold in the constant night,
you are the source of your own light.

Yet on and on I hear your
whispers in the night
every time you dance up in the sky:
You still survive in the endless cold.
You still blossom as you grow old.
You still trail the night sky, dutiful.
You still believe that life is beautiful.

Is it chill if I enter my own contest? Lol, I hope y'all don't mind


drowning,
pulled under by
seaweed,
dragged down
to the depths of the ocean,
she floats
a seashell
the color
of purest ivory
she settles
unnoticed
on the bottom of the ocean


one night
after wild rides
and crazy parties
spinning, drinking
twirling, singing
running through high tide
lost in drunken lies
she begins to cry
because this isn't living
so she wants to die


she lays there
a pearl
of beauty
hidden,
not seen
even by the keenest eyes
she wonders if the day will come
when someone doesn't walk by


Crawling into the ocean,
she floats,
letting waves draw her in
feeling salt on her skin
water slowly filling her mouth
as she begins to drown

She's lonely
they tell her
she is rare
but she'd rather be known
than treasured from afar


barely breathing,
she can't see,
except
something white,
catches her eye,
illuminating light
her heart,
slowly fading into darkness
realizes
there's always another way out

As long as you do a poll instead of picking the winner it's fine hun

Yeah, we're polling...polling... ¡en cuatros dias muchachos!

i love the different fonts nadia XD

Legit sorry for not putting up a poll and all, RL complicated things

Thanks Quetzal *besos*

Dark Moods

Life itself seems to be brooding.
Dark moods that set us all apart.
I try to set my roots down somewhere,
but rains have washed them out again.
Growing passions brought by pain
have placed me elsewhere again.
Guilt to darken more my moods.
Restless search for wants unknown.
The heavens brood—
I feel their disapproval,
and still my passions rise—
my restlessness is wide.