City of IF

[Novelest_Ninjagirl]

Since I'm new here, I may be in the wrong forum, if so please direct me to the correct one, but I wish to make a thread where people can post poems Instead of stories, or SG's. It's also for people to discuss thier poems with others. Again I'll say it, i'm new aorund here, and if I'm in the wrong thread for this, please direct me to the correct area. THanks! Here's a poem I wrote for a dad when he was in Iraq

A wish for here
A wish for there
A wish for someone anywhere
A wish for one
A wish for two
A wish for three
A wish for me
Oh mighty stars
Hear my plea
Please do what I ask of thee
And bring my father home safely


Any one else have a poem they wrote?

[Guest]

Ah, my fav type of writing. Let me find my poems and I will post them!

[Novelest_Ninjagirl]

Yay! a fellow Poet! My family says that if you give me a topic I know about, I can write yua short poem within five minutes.

I have so many notebooks, that I can't keep track of them all.

This is the first sad poem I've written

Starvation
I look to the sky
I wish to cry
But I do not dare
For water and food
I can not spare
Lack of food
Lack off sleep
That is why
I cannot weep
I miss my mom and dad
They made sure I was well fed
A storm approuches
Oh no
More roaches
I see the trees
Cold and bare
There isn't even any leaves in my hair
No food comes from there
How will I fill this hunger
Tangles in my hair
My feet bare
I know one thing
Death is something starvation will bring
I am crying
That is bad
I need as much water as is there
For without water
There is no me
And without me
What will happen to my unborn baby

[bookwizard]

Hi :D, i left for i while, am just stoping by though, as much as i wish i could come back, i cant. well i saw this and thought it was great, i love poems as much as i love writting, though i still have a problem with spelling, but no matter i suppose ;) i want to say sorry to everone in the ARENA contest, i had to do something, and thats what started the beginging of me having to stop, i really hope that i dident case much pandamonium :duel: . well here are some of my poems......






Feel the earth move around you,
Feel the great reaches of space fall silently upon you,
Feel the power of creation itself,
Embrace the life of earth and of all that you have felt,
Come now to the world of infinity,
Your time has come to leave all that is this great vicinity,
Now all is nonexistent,
And you are but another of creations many assistants



See that great light,
Feel the ultimate power,
Sense the greatness that is yet to come,
Follow these things so as you don’t become senseless,
Cling to life or prepare for nonexistence,
The choice is come to by many,
Made by few,
Now you must chose, and only you,
All shall die all shall live,
It shall never be,
There is but one thing to do,
And it may be simply as insignificant a bee,
All will fall together,
But there may never be peace,
Simply remember the choice by you must be








The world has gone mad,
Nothing will survive and nothing will fall within the right hands,
But wait,
There is light,
There is a way out of this terrible blight,
And that is pure love and might,
All good shall prevail,
All evil shall fail,
Everything will heal,
All once again will feel,
The world will rise once more



There is no way out,
Loved ones cry,
As I die,
There will never be a way out,
As I fall,
As I doubt,
I know there is no way out,
But something has changed,
As I reach the ground,
As I think and rejoice,
There comes an eternal and glorious sound,
That of singing and merriment,
I now know that happiness has been found,
And even here,
Dark underground,
Even here happiness can be found



Hoped you like them:) well by for now, i may come back in the future when i have more time on my hands.

[Crunchyfrog]

Oooh, a poetry thread!

This is being moved to the Linear Forum.

Threads in the Open Forum are transient and tend to disappear if they've not been posted to after a time.

Happy poem writing, as Smee might say!

:)

[The White Blacksmith]

I think we had a huge discussion as to whether we needed a poetry forum a while back. The general consensus was that we didn't, but it's always nice to see the threads.

I don't really write poetry that much, as while I'm great at putting words in patterns and pictures in normal speech, I can't seem to string it together on one topic. That said, my English teacher insists on analysing poems regularly, so I will be following this thread.

One thing that irks me though - Poems don't have to rhyme. If they do, try not to make them rhyme for the sake of it. When a poem wants to rhyme, and keeps coming out as a rhyming poem, then try to make it rhyme. However, simple rhymes always annoy me, no matter the context. If one line ends in 'few' and the next in 'you' then I will stop reading. Sorry.

[D-Lotus]

I wrote this last year for my english class. On hindsight, I could make it a better poem, but I think I'll keep it this way in order to commemorate my past self. This is the only serious poem I have ever written:

Metaphors

Metaphors are
non-precise
and evasive
but transcending.
A winged chameleon
trespasses the fog
propelled through the clouds
gushed from fecund mind bog
where cardboard flower grows
sweetened, nurtured with hoes
which linger in restless sand,
that gleam when held
by a sturdy pen-hand.


Also, here's a simpler one, but with a message, and it isn't so bad either; at least it sounds good when read out loud with rythm.

American Idol or Poetic Revival?

The TV is blaring
and I just can't stop staring,
must be the gorgeous girls
smiling with perfect pearls
featuring their golden curls

or maybe the brute brawl
has got me enthralled.
Is violence and sex
the true essence of all?

Poets vividly and searchingly disagree
and claim dignified superiority
over flashing chains and pimped rides
and the new i-pod, and trophy wives.

That's why we have poetry,
it's always commercial free!

[aviva claribel]

smart thinking ninja! i was actually wondering if there was a poetry post around here.whats your poetry based on? mine is based on my love of nature. heres two of my poems ,tell me what u think.

What is life?
who meant it to be?
the hub-bub of people w
who meant it to be?

is life just a dream
a whisper in the air?
a cloud that will
eventually go away?






Through mountains of fire
and wilderness of ice
he traveled no tire
on a brown spotted horse
yes sire,no bus
then there rose a dragon
'twas something to brag on
eyes of gold
and a face so bold
scales of sapphire
scales of sapphire
a silvern attire
and yes they did tarry
no swords did he carry
yet the sun rose
him with no bruise
the dragon exhausted
oh he deserted
with shame on his face
delayed was his pace