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After six long months it is finally the LAST ROUND! Congrats to all contestants, we thank you all for participating, and we hope that you all keep competing in our contests and events.

Now, everyone, it's time for a blast from the past~!

Love you all,

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If you did not participate in the Audition round, you can not participate in any other rounds.

Only one submission per contestant, per round.

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Submission can be edited and changed as many times as you like until the deadline.

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No bribing judges.

No flaming/hating/complaining the contest/judges/other entries. (Seriously, everything is set in stone so there will be no changes to deadlines, rules, themes, poetry types, etc.)

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No Rape.

Breaking any of these rules will cause you IMMEDIATE disqualification.

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Type: ANY~! (In other words you guys can choose whatever type you want.)
Theme: SEX

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Looking for People to Donate PrizesHey everyone, as you read above I'm after some
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Poetry-Book Exclusive PM Giveaway~! by =La--Volpe

RainIt’s always there to enter your heart,
To make it sodden, soaked, miserable.
It mixes with your hot tears,
And makes puddles underneath your feet.

It’s the most woeful weather for some,
Makes the world dim, depressing, gloomy.
Darkening clouds are its disappointing sign,
Once you see that, you better shelter.

But on the other hand,
It can be the most easing, ecstatic, relieving.
In boiling countries,
It equals celebrations!
h
It’s a unique legendary pleasure.
Oh, so cheerful, calming, refreshing.
Not to be wasted, but to be enjoyed.
You never miss your water until your well runs dry.Rain by ~8412q

Without you Five days passed by like a flash of light that seemed like yesterday that I last saw him. Five days of having contact with him adds more weight on my shoulder each day. It hurts so badly like a sword piercing into my heart.

Spiteful and hurtful words spitted out from my mouth were obnoxiously mocking at me in my sleep. Guilt plunged into my chest. I felt so downbeat ever since that break up. Recalling that guilt, I feel so ashamed. I feel so naked. How could be such a jerk by saying that our relationship was all for nothing. How could I be such a jerk by accusing him for toying my feelings? How could I be such a jerk to him, to the teenaWithout you by ~FairyNinja12

Are you ready for another bad poem by =Shadowsoflosthope

Featured

Scratch That

Collide.There was a
                   moment;
A beautiful,
                    blissful
                                 moment.
We weren't bodies,
                               We were souls,

Exploring our very existence.

And spirit met spirit,
And skin rushed across skin
As we searched each other's bodies for a deeper love within.
Your veins were a highway,
Your sighs soft and d i s t a n t
As we sped faster into this lustful instant
Twisted and tangled, we were breathing as oneCollide. by *AutumnForAlways

Scratch That

New Folder for General Poetry

Cowardcelebrated this unrequited crush
with a bottle and yourself
pretended to reach for me
and every body else

ran and hid yourself away
with nothing, alone and in bliss
and twisted the knife
with the shallow virtue in your kiss

stole my faith and made me bleed
chaos keeps you protected
buried in the landslide contradiction
with the emotions you injected

you never looked back to see
you never said goodbye
but I never shed a tear that night
a coward could never make me cryCoward by *prettyflour

RerunNerve endings tip toe
to an electrical sensation

The eyes shimmer and sparkle
into a empty vessel

A rerun mock up
A soul stealer of the week
has tasted retreat

Unknown to you

Your executive producer just sold the rights...Rerun by *prettyflour

What's your poison?From time to time
I fall into a spell
usually influenced by a glass of poison
for the purpose of more smiles...What's your poison? by *prettyflour

JealousyA split second of
pure rage,
exponential and tyrannical,
reigning completely over my mind.

Blocking all reason.

Nothing in so long has sparked such emotion,
it washed anew over long dried out causeways.
It was startling, strong.
It caught me off guard,
like a flashflood, there and gone again.

I can't explain it,
the choking and demanding desire
to lunge.
Go for the kill.

I'm not over it.
I wasn't ready,
not to see it confirmed,
in the smile on your face as you held her,
clearly....
right in front of me.

I hate it.
I'm sorry, truly,
that I had my moment of weakness,
of pure and unadulterated jealousy.

What should I beJealousy by ~Deadlysin-4

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UnwantedHe whispers a sweet darkness
He breathes a gentle sigh
Ignored by all the people
The ghosts of passersby

I see him every night
Lost in the deep of thought
It seems no one remembers
His poor skeleton forgot

Although his eyes are blank
He still stands tall and free
Despite his broken spirit
Still he welcomes me

But I take for granted
That rotten peeled back skin
I take full advantage of
The shelter he’d once been

And now that he’s drifting
There’s nothing I can say
His walls reduced to sand
As his body wastes away

I let these years devour you
I left you all alone
But soon you'll be my nothing
That place I once called homeUnwanted by ~No-Face181

..+All of me+..I write a sad song.
You're the words
& the rythym.
You're my only inspiration.
You're my only fan on their feet.
You're all i need
& all i can't have.
I've been holding it in & now,
i feel like i'm exploding.
You're my best friend.
Maybe not the best mother.
But you're my mother.
& i love you.
& I miss you.
The words i endlessly scribble
they fall onto every page.
& they cry out, they scream out
as a killer inside of me.
No amount of writing or hunger
or waiting could take this emptiness away.
I'll just make it through another day
& another day & another day.
With pieces left behind.
But i'll survive, i'll get throu..+All of me+.. by ~kori-fuzy

Nobody DreamsEverything will be okay; I am in the pursuit of happier things. Sometimes it seems black, and endless, and the darkness swallows up everything. But everything is shining; an illusion. None of this is real, but that's okay. Is this a dream? Maybe I am sleepwalking. Maybe I am wakewalking. Real? Try unimportant. Questioning my own existance is only a game; just another paradox to marvel at. Time? the clock says midnight on the dot. I say five in the morning. But by then, its been a week. You are not dying; you are a wave. You build up like a mighty tsunami, gaining strength with experience. It is not time spent; it is life lived. I close my eyeNobody Dreams by ~Zed-of-Venice

The Miles.The miles twitch between us.
No distance can be crossed with broken legs.
Much less with broken hearts.The Miles. by ~Doritos1996

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General Poetry

You are the Sunlight

For Her

It started off like this
When I gave you that first kiss

It took you by surprise
And made me close my eyes

I won’t lie, I was scared
As you stopped and stared

I couldn’t even breathe
But then you kissed me

It shattered all our fear
And made our love clear

My feelings only grew
But inside I always knew

The time you fell from the swing
From the first time I heard you sing

The first time you held my hand
I was so nervous I couldn’t stand

Even though I can’t cook
You still give me that look

My hearts melts every time
Reminding me how you’re mine

You’re the ending to my story
And the happinesYou are the Sunlight by *Sasurealian

DetrimentalLike scars on your wrists
Your eyes told it all
And everyone who saw them
Was irrevocably enthralled

Like the drugs on this table
Your smile was addictive
Euphoria alone
Was all that it afflicted

Like a schizophrenia patient
Your voice rang in our heads
Making it impossible to forget
A single word that you said

Like the worst alcoholic
You had me constantly inebriated
With you, my worst feelings
Were immediately alleviated

Some might say I should stay away
Because you're so dastardly
But that's what makes it fun
Because I like what's bad for me.Detrimental by ~mephetical

Tracks Of TearsTracks of tears

The Piccadilly lines of tears have ran their route many a time
But never did I know a love so sublime.
This train stopped for no one she was the only passenger,
It was thirty love and she returned every serve like my name was Slazenger.

We were rallying for ages her love seemed to know no bounds.
Every ball she threw no matter the distance I fetched like a hound.
Whenever I dithered she kept me on track,
Spontaneity lustre and passion there was no lack.

The track continued only it now regularly terminating at cock fosters.
She had a free ride the journey never cost her
A penny. She would sit on my seat make it warm
Tracks Of Tears by *KelaLewis-Morin

ExistingExisting

The location no map can pin-point,
The blind region of the universe.
Living turns in to existing,
Existing mutates in to subsisting.
Emotions have no place here.

The body is in a cadaverous state,
The heart thinks but the mind aches.
The mouth has been moulded to deceive.
The eyes are impervious to lies.
This is the place where true honesty lies

Know one can surmise how you feel,
Those who once cared have dematerialized.
You can only re-lie on yourself,
False deceptions allow us to proceed.
Realise the real lies we tell ourselves

Allow us to proceed…

Kela lewis-morinExisting by *KelaLewis-Morin

General Poetry

Visual Poetry

Fleur De Lis by *Cygam-7

Beauty and the Beast by *Cygam-7

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My eyes have found the bottle,
Half full with a proclaimed solution. Consumption is my body's only need...withdrawal, it's demons kept at bay only by repetitive submission...

The bottle stares back with lifeless, nonexistent eyes...a thousand yard stare only to find me in my own mind, staring at a broken mirror at choices of mere potential...a clap of thunder snaps me from hypnosis.

A sweat grows from the soil of my pours, as my ears pick up the screaming demons drawing closer by the second...insanity is the flare that they so love to follow to my place of solitary self torture.

Closing my eyes only grants those demons the images they wer313 by ~GrubbsWriting

Ensnared by ~Hayleyishayley

Visual Poetry

Songs

Soultune by *Citrus-Orange

Collage of the PresentAn ordinary life,
An ordinary day
I never knew it
Any other way

The time fades away
Like the night into the day
Another hour lost
Another bill to pay

The morning washes over me
circling towards the drain
I try to keep going
Ignoring the pain

Looking down at myself,
Staring fear in the face
In the rippling water
I'm being taken from this

Inner disaster
Growing faster
In my mind

I am drifting
Thoughts and memories drift away...

Weigh your future
Bury your past
The time will come
When the first are last

------

This present moment
Reality so unreal
Functionality fading
Don't understand what I feel

Where is this goinCollage of the Present by =tubbums32

CloudlessI've seen a blind woman
Growing cold outside,
An older image of
Our younger selves.
She wears a shard of mirror
And a broken sword
Screaming "Look at yourself!"
She is the scales; she is the statue,
She is what we should have always been,
But she has long since been replaced by greed.
This eternal rain of dust has fallen
Down upon the scales,
And they're broken,
Rusted, and brown...
Falling down
What gives you the right to
Take life away?
In the dawning of our darkest hour,
Who says what's right?
What gives us the right to
Take life away?
While these images are cutting through
A cloudless September sky.Cloudless by =tubbums32

Styrofoam BreathA new sun rises,
A day has dawned.
The tables have turned
And the curtains are drawn.
Static faces in blank disguises,
Two suns can't set before another rises.

Gazing to the unknown horizon,
My whole world is torn.
Flowing from her eyes and into mine,
Prospects are reborn.

The vision forever lingers:
Hair clasped in rigorous fingers.

The sky was murky,
Two drops of color lost in a glass.
Stirred once and left...
Left to sort things out with the amorphous deep.

Frail foundations
Without fair warning,
And angels at night
Have never dreamt of morning.

Expressionless smiles,
Wrinkled, cracked plastic...
Hollow words
neither believes.Styrofoam Breath by =tubbums32

Songs

Free Verse

The end of regretI've made many mistakes
Times past
Future's rent and fractured

There's always a sense of sorrow
Something nagging,
something straining

I've always been sorry
for the broken hearts
and faulty logic
For the bloodied knives
and lusting ages

Like a conscience torture
It burns
and burns
and burns

Not now though.
Not with this.
Why?The end of regret by ~Deaths-Lament

PowerPower

She lies beneath humanity's mortal understanding
Bending mortals into those who crave their every whim and desire.
Her whispers entail destruction by unconscious action to
Those who abuse her blessings. She considers them unworthy.

But there are those who seek her, not for personal pleasure but
For solidifying a philosophy they consider moral and true.
But will their words be put into action? She challenges all,
Whose actions firmly testify their beliefs.

A cruel temptress yet a benevolent giver, she tests all..
Centuries pass, yet those who were granted her blessings
Succumb to an even worse fate, only time will dictate
On who willPower by ~Shadow-Fox168

The Dove In The NightA dove sits in the night's black.
All the lights are out but she remains.
She sits in a pine tree waiting.
She is not quite sure what for.
She sits and sits without making a move.
Then she sees a boy with a tear in his eye.
He sits below her tree and begins to weep.
Suddenly he shouts, "Why me?"
The dove knows that it is time to stop waiting.
She hops down one branch at a time.
He starts to pull out a knife.
He begins to say, "Goodbye my life."
Before he can finish he sees something.
There goes the white dove with the black knife.
Once she is out of sight there was light.
The boy stopped shedding tears.
He went on with no despair or fear. The Dove In The Night by ~moonsand9999

and i'm shivering cold on a well lit stage.there's been silence for a while now

but not in my head
no
at night those words rage
against my eyelids
they flourish and grow into
a carnivorous plant
eat me up
swallow me whole

when your body unites against you
it should be crystal clear that
you either have to change
your venomous, excruciating, catastrophic
ways
or
just go to hell right away

i am still deciding

i probably will be for ever
today i'm indifferent
yesterday i was sure of my victory
over myself, over you
over the world
the day before i had sold my soul
to that good looking iced man
that freezes you with his gaze
till you burn in a cage
that will noand i'm shivering cold on a well lit stage. by ~cyanidebrighteyes

Free Verse

Ballad

Missing LovePiece of me is missing,
I can't find it,
It seems that is gone,
Gone far away,
And I don't know, If it is ever coming back.

I feel lost,
I was here before but not at this cost,
Slowly drifting in unknown and hoping for better times.

With past memories of love still by side,
I keep myself together,
Soft touch,
Happy smile,
Beautiful eyes,

What did happen...

Love have you given up on me?Missing Love by ~Nba76

The Ballad of Big BillBorn in 1869 was one William Haywood
By helping workers anyway he could
He determined to spend his life
Not on friends, sport or Wife
By lending us his calloused hand
He vowed we’d build a promised land.

Now William was no College Professor
Nor a staunch Moral Confessor.
He grew up big and strong
And rejected the beard long.
In fact Most working folk
On account of him being solid as an Oak
Dubbed our Will “Big Bill”

Big Bill began his rise to fame
Helping a Silver mine stake its claim.
Whilst picking at rock he listened to Ed Boyce
Ed’s speech would give Workers cause to rejoice.
Big Bill with the Western FederatioThe Ballad of Big Bill by ~Skargill

Perhaps Life

as I ponder the days gone by
and contemplate my future
I wonder 'bout the reasons why
I've often had to suffer

and yet good times were also mine
to share and to be shared with
family, friends, good food, fine wine
happiness... not just a myth

world war I...men on the moon
adolph hitler...Jesus Christ
modern medicine...aids and cancer
the Bible...mein kampf
hunger...bumper crop
long life...crib death

perhaps life is a mystery
a conundrum to be resolved
evil's part of our history
and yet we are all involved

perhaps life is a gift from God
a thing to cherish and love
some may find it rather odd

that the credit should go... Perhaps Life by ~tommyboywood

Shadow's SlumberSend the souls of saints to find
Secrets locked within my mind.
Sand to stone and sight to sleep,
Sirens sing of loss and grief.
Sorcerers from highest peaks
Cast your spells into the deep.
Servant of the shadow's kiss,
Cast me now to the abyss.Shadow's Slumber by ~Zed-of-Venice

Ballad

Haiku

Waiting for youHis crimson parsol
Cradle in my arms
He shall be backWaiting for you by ~FairyNinja12

Sunset's lovely redI see that red hue
Floating towards the twilight sky
On a cold sunsetSunset's lovely red by ~FairyNinja12

Ribcagea flowered ribcage
so beautiful and deceased
dead but still lovelyRibcage by ~illumin4te

How Does It Feel?So how does it feel
to look at me from afar
million miles away

Any memories
of how much you wanted me
of how things once was

We had come so far
for you to just screw things up
us ending so bad.

We can never go
back before we burned the bridge
too much pain remains.

So how do I feel
to look at you from afar
million miles away

Just sad...How Does It Feel? by ~danisuh

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*AutumnForAlways May 9, 2013

Will you also critique prose?

=La--Volpe May 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

It will depend on the size, prose tends to take longer to critique because they are usually longer, if we have time, sure, but if not, it may take some time.

*AutumnForAlways May 9, 2013

Alright, thanks. I have some short prose ( 300-400 words, some shorter), but if it takes you a while to get to, I understand; thanks.

~bohemian-empress Apr 17, 2013

Thank you so much for having my piece in your fantastic groups.

~iChrno Apr 19, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Wow. You're welcome!

=TheAwesomeness0330 Mar 26, 2013 Student Digital Artist

Sometimes I forget to donate the prizes!! If you want to claim a prize from me.... PLEASE NOTE ME IF YOU DIDN'T GET THE PRIZE!

~lacesnflowers Mar 5, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

What are the rules?

=La--Volpe Mar 5, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

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~AyeAye12 Feb 28, 2013 Student Writer

This is getting ridiculous, where is Roudn 5?! :0 Call me impatient, but...

~iChrno Feb 28, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

The ridiculousness wasn't unwarranted. Read the newest journal entry for your answer.

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Scratch That FINALS~!!!!

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Breaking any of these rules will cause you IMMEDIATE disqualification.

Theme and Poetry Type:

Deadline

Scratch That Round 9 RESULTS

We got more help. 8B

THAT'S RIGHT, WE ENLISTED THE HELP OF FORMER ROUND WINNERS.

JUDGES

Rules for Prizes

Prizes

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR TOP THREE!

WINNER

THE ELIMINATED

Full judging can be viewed here:

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#poetry-book

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Another PM Giveaway for ~iChrno's birthday~! [link]

Behind the Scenes

Scratch That FINALS~!!!!

Rules:

Important Rule:

Breaking any of these rules will cause you IMMEDIATE disqualification.

Theme and Poetry Type:

Deadline

Scratch That Round 9 RESULTS

We got more help. 8BTHAT'S RIGHT, WE ENLISTED THE HELP OF FORMER ROUND WINNERS.

JUDGES

Rules for Prizes

Prizes

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR TOP THREE!

WINNER

THE ELIMINATED

Full judging can be viewed here:

Gallery Folders

Affiliates

Comments

Add Media

Style

We got more help. 8B

THAT'S RIGHT, WE ENLISTED THE HELP OF FORMER ROUND WINNERS.