Subject Poetry Contest.

Oh wow! I had no idea I won.

Thank You!

This came as a complete surprise to me

Ok, the next subject is Alter Ego and poem should include the phrase "hidden truth"

Deadline December 3rd

Nice going, Muse!

Masks and Dreams

Searching the mirror where hidden truths lie,
The Alter Ego that prays to escape—
Which one with I become when the Night presses on,
For all are just fragments of me...
Faces float in the depths of my mind
A kaleidoscope of personalities, each just a part of the whole—
Masks to be put on or taken off as the mood takes me...
They call it “mental illness” but what it really is
Is the Alter Egos just struggling for air time
On the TV station that I call life,
The babbling voices that beckon and entice,
Blank visages awaiting the paint to give them uniqueness:
Jonathan Blade, Raven Darkendale, David Pendragon and more—
Who will I be in the end—
What name do I inscribe on my stone—
When my life has been one of charades?

Pendragon
© 11/9/2009

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Nice going, Muse!

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Thank you, and great poem, it has kind of an eerie quality to it.

Shards of bevelled mirror
Shades of crooked canvas
Shreds of iced fabric
Diced to innovative imperfection
Enticed to leading inhibitions
An extemporaneous
Colloquial collage
Merging twill with teetering type
Trite with smoldering smut
Wrecked with onerous billowing
Tacit with blessedly believable
And what do you have?
Nostalgia
That is, someone's hidden truth
Or, better yet,
Just a trick of isolation
Put together for aesthetic sake
With Alice's sense
In a brief world
All too certain.

Oh wow! That was fantastic

It is near the middle of the month and only 2 entires so far, before you know it the deadline will be upon you.

Since the deadline is almost upon us and only two entries so far, to try and make more of a contast of this, I am going to extend the deadline as I know for many this is a busy time of year.

So the new deadline is January 15

*bump*

I want to be the girl
who loves her life best,
like my friend who has
a hundred friends
like a parcel of random gems
she is never without one

there was the guy she first slept with
after breaking up with a boyfriend
and who, after hanging out and
having sex with each other
for three months, bought her
a purple teddy bear with hearts
on its paws, but that wasn't who
she was
so she apologized and moved on

and the one she spent three years with
who she thought might be the one,
but two years later he wasn't

or the one she lived with for five years
she thought for awhile that she might like to
live in Paris
she never said whether he would join her
or not

in the end they can hang
around
if they want to
that's ok with her

but i am not a nomad
in matters of the heart
i live
i love my family
i write, i paint, i think
some days i save the world

but the hidden truth is that
i'm lillian gish
floating downstream on an ice floe

and all i really want is for
someone to care enough
to stay with me til i die

Qimissung

Thank you to those who have entered, though it makes it even harder to judge, with so few to choose from, as all three entires were quite good, but alas there can be only one winner.

Pendragon: I loved your use of the masks, I have a fasncation with masks myself and so I quite enjoyed that asepct of your poem. A great concept, with some wonderful lines and paints a rather vivid scene with your imagery.

oqimissung: I really enjoyed your poem, I just loved the apporach you took. I thought the concept behind the poem was really great, and I loved the fact that it did have such a personal feeling to it.

But the winner goes to

alakunfu: Your poem was so richly and wonderfully original and the langauge you used was fabulous, it was a very expertly and brillinatly crafted poem and I most particuarly enjoyed your use of the resquted phrase "hidden truth"

Congratulations, alakungfu. The language you use is always rich.

Congratulations, alakungfu. Very nice poem there!

Yours, too, Pendragon. :)