Hewo everyone!!!
This is the second poetry comp!
Pls DM or PM me if you would like to join and I can add you to the gc!
Here’s how this works!
Each contestant has written a poem off of a prompt I gave them. This week’s was Unerasable.
All the poems here are kept annonymous to avoid ppl voting based on bias.
Pls read all the poems before you make your final decision as to whose is the best!
Before I close and make the poll, I would like to give a shoutout to last week’s winner.
Give it up for…
@brayslay4 !!!
Here is her poem that won, if anyone is interested in reading it!
Summary
Not always do I wake up with cheer
Sometimes the mornings drag too long
I trip on my shoes, knock over my mug
But tiny wins can feel so strong
Not always do my friends reply
Sometimes we argue, drift, or fight
Yet laughter brings us back, I try
And suddenly the world feels right
Not always is my courage near
Sometimes I hide, unsure, afraid
But little steps make the path clear
And show the strength my heart has made
Not always do the plans succeed
Sometimes they crumble, bend, or break
Yet music, friends, and jokes I need
Remind me life is ours to take
Not always is the day all bright
Sometimes the clouds just hide the sun
But kindness, smiles, and songs of light
Can turn the gray to endless fun
Tysm everyone and happy crafting! -Yani, Alora (my pen name)
Voting time!!!
#1
It’s unreasonable,
To still hold on.
It’s irrational,
The way I feel.
It’s unadvisable,
Ignoring the proof.
But it’s unerasable,
The love I have for you.
It unadvisable,
Loving one who can’t love back.
It’s undignified,
Loving someone from the shadows.
But it’s unforgettable,
When the smile splits your face.
Even as I watch you take their hand,
These feelings are unerasable.
You see my face, but not the tears.
You hear my voice, but not the screams.
You know my name, but not the ache
That resides inside my heart.
But that’s okay.
Because your love for them
Is unerasable.
And I would never do anything
To take that away.
I don’t ever want you
To stop smiling.
Because my love for you
Is unerasable.
#2
Trees will grow, ivy will creep
Up the walls and up the steep
Once-golden staircase out the hall
Moss will grow upon the wall
Breeze will blow
Through the old windows
Rooms with high ceilings
And wallpaper peeling
Everything that is seen is gone,
Has lost its shallow grandeur
But one thing is always to stay;
The memories that were made
Of little children running through the halls
And dogs playing in the yard
Of babies giggling
And mothers singing
Those are the things that will not fade
Those are the things that are unerasable.
#3
The mirror remembers
Everything I try to forget.
The way a comment
From years ago
Still sits on my cheek
Like a watermark.
I have tried erasers;
Makeup,
Angles,
Laughing it off.
But some words are written
In ink beneath the skin.
Unerasable
Is not my face-
It’s the way
I was taught
To look at it.
#4
My thoughts are drowning me,
I wish you would see.
But you don’t.
I try to breathe.
It’s all a pain.
It seems to never go away.
It’s unerasable.
I’m stuck,
Like mud.
Watching it all dud,
Because I’m haunted.
The ghosts are longing.
It unerasable.
Smile and cry,
While feelings die,
Because voices still echo,
You still live.
My brain and the school,
Cling to the sounds,
Cling to the memories.
Hold to the sensories,
And taunt me.
It’s unerasable.
I try to block it all out,
Before losing my mind.
The sounds are too loud,
But who cares,
It’s like that all the time.
I shrug them away.
I stuff in my earbuds,
At the end of the day.
I let the music play,
And click the button,
Hoping it’ll drown-
Out my thoughts,
And leave me empty.
Just a hollow shell filled with sound.
It works-
Maybe it is all,
Erasable.
And yet only temporarily.
What I said,
Still exists.
What I did
Still survives.
It’ll never go away,
Until the day I lie.
And yet it still lives,
Because we all know,
It’s unerasable.
#5
I heard you through the bathroom stall
Those awful things you said
I can’t believe you told them all
My eyes are now red
The tears streaming down my face
You told them about my past
Something that I can’t erase
I didn’t know that it would last
Please just leave me alone
I’m starting to see you truly
I never wanted to go home
They wouldn’t let me leave freely
I have many flaws
Like daggers in my heart
I can’t abide by the laws
When I see the fights you tried to start
I’m done with it now
I can’t mentally go on
I’ve withstood all I can allow
Let me finally be alone
I can’t escape my past
My life seems to be breakable
What bothers me, I can’t grasp
It’s all so unerasable.
#6
You lighten my unerasable scars
Those hurtful memories that linger, you make me forget
Although they may be unerasable
Because of you, I believe
That healing is possible, and
And although the hurt wasn’t worth it,
You make me feel okay within myself
And accept the things I can’t change.
And those people who say,
Unerasable are the scars and memories like ink on paper,
They are right, but the ink can be smudged and paper crumpled,
Smudged until you can’t make out the words anymore
And the paper crumpled into a miniscule, insignificant ball
Of what is unerasable, and yet it’s gone in an instant.
#7
Why were you such a bad friend
When I thought I could trust you with all my horrid secrets
I told you that I thought I wasn’t pretty enough and that I really wasn’t enough and that I had wasted my life
When I told you that I thought you were gonna help me overcome my problems
And in you head you were somehow saying something evil
I also told you other people’s problems, other people’s secrets that I just couldn’t hold anymore
Then the next day you told them all my secrets, how much I felt like a not-enough, ugly monster.
I wanted to cry
You told all of my other friends
That will never be erased
I will never forget how you treated me that day
I will never forget how I felt on that day
I wanted to
Die
Leave into a world of nothingness
It’s over
But it’s not
The other side of me peace is in and tells me to laugh it off
To forgive her
To understand
But that day will never be erased.
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- #7
Tysm once again everyone!!!
Also, ty to the contestants this week, who are listed down below!
Contestants
@brayslay4
@TangerineQueen
@CrochetCritters04
@MochiMilkshake
@purplerosey
@Kymram210
@lulovescrochet