Subject Poetry Contest.

[Cassie Hughes]

Lulled by gentle, pulsing beat,
Away from gaudy, noisome life,
You float contented, warm, replete,
Unthinking of the constant strife
that will prevail once you are free,
When pain has ripped you out of me.

Cocooned in peaceful, sheltered dome
where innocence is yours to keep,
I long to keep you for my own,
Wrapped up in love and fast asleep,
A prisoner to hearts best lies.
For when you’re born liberty dies.

Alas for mother natures wiles
In this she will not be denied
Into the world with all its trials
You will be born, my perfect child,
So make the most of wombs fair peace
Once you are free, shackles increase.

[stephofthenight]

We’ll eventually get
Some new day some may see
Although maybe not me.

I loved this in your piece! Wonderful work and thank you for sharing!

A prisoner to hearts best lies.
For when you’re born liberty dies.
....
So make the most of wombs fair peace
Once you are free, shackles increase.

Cassie that made one of my all time favorites on Litnet! I absolutely loved it, and the spin you took with it. Congratulations and can't wait to see what topic you pick!

[YesNo]

Congratulations, Cassie! That was a lovely poem!

[tailor STATELY]

Congratulations Cassie Hughes !

[Magnocrat]

Yes perhaps being born is as dangerous a business as dying. Thank you for a new perspective.

[Cassie Hughes]

Many thanks to you all. Sorry for the delay but have been away for a few weeks.
I would like the next topic to be your shadow. Deadline will be 27th of this Month.
Good luck.

[YesNo]

As a shadow moves it leaves little behind except a slightly cooler temperature that lasts briefly, but it will be back.

I enter Chipilly Woods looking for trees and finding their sharp shadows crossing the trail. I see the muddied path ahead from recent spring rains and so I turn back. I don’t mind the wetness but by returning now I would leave no more than a faint footprint behind.

footprints on the path
water filters through spring soil
shadows turn with day

[tailor STATELY]

My Shadow

my shadow is my
constant companion
when my countenance
is bright... always
my reminder to
stay within the light

5/13/2017

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[stephofthenight]

Her shadow haunts her waking dreams
Broken fragments of her soul scream

Illuminated darkness hides the past
From choices of a lot she didn’t cast

Bitter and broken, consistently abandoned
Lost, to be found and again left stranded

Walking a road of self-destruction
Building walls for her own protection

The fear of herself has only grown
For she cannot escape, the shadow is her own

[North Star]

Throughout the day, sunlight traces
The shapes in this room, and faces
Run through my mind – they all answer to your name:
Smiling, crying, silly faces, all of them the same,
And all of them changing, as the room in sunlight:
soft smiles of dawn change to laughter, shining bright
in the afternoon, lingering, softening before the night,
And disappearing in the dark. But your shadow is light.

[cacian]

in the heat
the shade is sunny
it cools and it is funny
and the shadow feels
it can steal the show
from its fellow glow

[Cassie Hughes]

This is going to be so difficult to judge! Any one else care to enter the fray? You have until midnight tonight.

[Cassie Hughes]

A wonderful array of entries. Thanks to everyone, it has not been an easy choice.
My favourite lines are -

As a shadow moves it leaves little behind except a slightly cooler temperature that lasts briefly, but it will be back.- YesNo

always
my reminder to
stay within the light- tailor STATELEY

The fear of herself has only grown
For she cannot escape, the shadow is her own- stephofthenight

Throughout the day, sunlight traces
The shapes in this room, and faces
Run through my mind – they all answer to your name-North Star

the shadow feels
it can steal the show
from its fellow glow - cacian

As ever I am going to go with the on that resonates most with me and that is....North Star.

[tailor STATELY]

Congratulations North Star !!... and thank you Cassie Hughes !

[YesNo]

Congratulations, North Star! Thank you, Cassie Hughes!