Subject Poetry Contest.

Thank you cacian and Pendragon!

Ok next subject is Photograph

Tentative Deadline is March 15th

Frozen image, forever chained
A moment in time where time has no meaning
People long gone, events long past
Captured for posterity by light and film
The windows of the soul, sealed in a golden frame
Watch over me daily from grandma's wedding day
Dad looking so young, my mom at sixteen--
He has passed death's barrier, and she's gone grey
That little boy with the ball and bat
Now has kids of his own, and even grandkids
I stare at our photograph, and wish from my heart
That time really could stand still for us...

Pendragon
(C) 2012

Memory Required

I wish I brought my camera but
I left it in the car.
The leaves were changing by that fall,
The river flowed, the sun pushed all
Our futures from us far.

A picture would be better but
My mind will have to do
Recalling on this winter's day
Those times now gone, the very way
I felt while there with you.

an image came into the light
and caught on time a camera lense
it flashed a ray of colour pearls
and turned into picture frame
a perfect shape
a perfect place
the view it paused was scarlet fame

There is no time
Only a memory

Our smiles are frozen
Captured and printed
Colors enhanced
Flaws corrected

Immaculate
Eyes glittering in the
Artificial sunshine
Toes in gritty sand
Bleached white

Arms around each other
A ruse of affection
A white lie
To make life sweeter
With a bitter aftertaste

Manufactured beauty
False perfection

The camera flashes
Whirs

We pull away

Thank you all, this was tough as there were some really good entries.

YesNo: I liked the way in which you created the idea of a mental picture, and I thought there was a touch humor in the idea of having forgotten your camera. The end I found to be quite touching. I really enjoyed you capturing the changing of the seasons, but I have to say I did find some of the line breaks a bit awkward in reading.

cacian: I thought this was a beautiful poem. There was something quite original about it and I loved some of the descriptive language you used. I particularly enjoyed the line "it flashed a ray of color pearls" I liked how you captured that moment of the picture being taken. Rather than just describing the picture itself I liked the way this seemed to be from the point of the view of the one behind the camera snapping the photograph.

moonbird: I loved this poem you used some great and powerful language to convey your thought. And I very much appreciated the fact that your poem reflected my own cynical view that I often take towards photographs. I very much enjoyed your point of view on the subject. I really liked these lines "A white lie To make life sweeter With a bitter aftertaste" I also really enjoyed the ending, it leaves the reader something to ponder about, it left me with questions about the people in the photograph and what there story was. I like the things which one could read into the poem.

But the winner is...........


Pendragon: I thought you did an excellent job in creating the essence of a photograph. The first lines really leapt out at me and caught my attention enticing me to want to read more and I thought the last lines were a fitting end which rounded off the poem. You had such vivid language which captured the feelings of melancholy which a photo can often create and using words were able to create a mental picture in the mind.

Congratulations Pendragon ! and everyone else; what wonderful poems.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Thank you DarkMuse for the feedback!
congratulations Pendragon!:smile5:

Thank you, DarkMuse, and one and all.

I want the next contest to focus on REMEMBERING, for good times, or for struggles. Good luck, God bless, and Best wishes.

I'll tell you something,
And make it good,
A day in the life,
Of a memory's bad mood.

It starts with knowing,
You've got it all figured out
Check off the list,
Leaving no doubt.

As the day wears on,
There's one thing amiss
Then another and another,
Who says ignorance is bliss?

Suddenly it seems that
You're losing your mind,
And you thought that your memory
Was one of a kind

Well,
Turns out you were right. :D

Finally Getting Over It

Remembering what Joey did
With his sweet Suzy lingers on
Except he's now no longer mad
But glad that crazy Suzy's gone.

in the beginning there was nothing
in the middle there was something
and in the end it was little but known
that remembering synergies of love
is everything that meant,went and
faded against a sentinelle of laughter
the make up of faster safer and better
if only the end was lighter
it would make a figure say louder
the words that lay hidden in jouster
if only the middle was later
the beginning would have waited
longer
remembering each moment that
spheres around us
for us
and reaches up to us
in motions of slow
in time for a new
end

Good and bad the laden spirit carries through its time,
and through its time the laden spirit carries right and wrong.

It reads those rights, it rights those wrongs,
it tries, it falls, it makes up songs.

The laden spirit carries these.

Of swings or things,
she wore an abundance of sunflower rings,

her love was that of a dove,
when she hugged me,
we were as snug as a slug in a miniature golfers glove,

But once upon a stormy afternoon,
I sat till dusk and let my hopes flutter high like a balloon,
my devotion was met with no one but a silence which was that of doom,
and so she left me and my heart would begin to stutter,

so now i sit and recollect,
of days gone and when emotions did collide,
and how my love is now a sunken wreck,
which is why i am alone,

becuase no matter how far anyone will trek,
no one may ever resurrect a defected heart like mine,

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whoever made this post is awesome...

Hello, so I'm very uncreative so please forgive my amateurish attempt:


Thinking of that summertime
How I wish I could forget
You made me a daisy-chain
That night I ran and left
Now, when my memories fade
And my wish is coming true
I take out your wild gift
To remember me and you.



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