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Thanks, Moonbird. I'm humbled by the poetic quality of other entries specially Dark Muse's and Pendragon's. I propose the following:
Subject: Imagined City
Deadline: May 10
It can be a city of the past, present, or future or of all three dimensions defying the linearity of time. It can be nostalgic, realist, futurist or whatever you want as long as it is imaginative and about a city peopled by humans.
Thanks again.
Nay, mate, ye won that contest fair and square! Congratulations!
congratulations miyako73!!
great choice of topic by the way, 'Imagined City' is a great title, will think up few words and see what I can come up with!!
Invisible Cities
We watched the invisible cities
falling from the sky
and knew our world was starting
to crumble into ruins,
standing upon the edge,
the street becomes a tidal wave,
rising up, towering above,
before it starts to come crashing down.
Something was lost along the way
now it was collapsing in upon itself,
as we ran through labyrinths
of corridors seeking an escape,
but at every turn there was another dead end.
We have become trapped within the dreams
of our creation that have now moved beyond
our control, and showers of glass fall
each one reflect another shattered perception.
They speak of castles in the air
but we wanted so much more, and gone too far,
beneath our streets civilizations dwelled
and above our heads a floating metropolis.
Architects without limitations, but it was
only a matter of time before it began to crack,
and now cannot get past the layers,
every way out is another way in,
every exit is an entrance in disguise.
Finding One's Way to the Mountain
The morons that he lives with in this city
Are more than what's required to make one mad.
They do deserve his scornful, restless pity:
What's stupid is too dumb to know it's bad.
But life can make a mountain move within one.
Today he sees the springtime every where.
The city's still the same but he'll begin one
Special journey through the wonders there.
A Magickal Place! This Ancient Realm!
Old Atlantis' Sister, Mountain Paradise
Where none shall visit nor none leave
The Watery One it survives in Legend
Which Mystickal Towne bene unknown
For Today Tomorrow and of Yesterday
Enshrouded in cloaks of crystal mists
Striated plateaux in mirrored octaves
Towers of Volcanic Obsidian embedded
Brick-size Jewels and Gems construct
Rivulet roadways snake them around
And in Sapphire Palace a Wizard Dark
Cast spells to promise it eternal hid
There's space enough, no clutter here,
no shuffle, no ugly crowds
with their rudeness and disdain;
no arrogance that casts its spiteful
weak shadow upon strangers.
Ah, but this is still a city,
and these are still people,
fanciful and falling, each and every one.
a place somewhere
a room of great
a city where
nature has born under
a ray of skies and birds
a house with flairs
that looks a rare
but has a glare
history fares
a road ahead
in stones and bray
it takes you there to
river and planes
sanctums of lanes
wholesome and sane
they lead you to
stairways
of sun and river airs
The language used and the images conveyed are creative and imaginative, and they work. I can paint this poem on a canvas. What a unique landscape of a city imagined!Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Thank you all for your entries. Congratulations, Mystyr.
Thankyou Miyako
Congratulations to everyone!
Up next: Pluto
It used to be a planet, but
It ain't no more. And you say, "W-H-A-T!
Those rocket scientists don't know!"
No doubt they don't, but even so
Does Pluto care? And either way
Why worry what the critics say?
pluto is always a miss
when it comes down
to writing down myths
one time it's plato
and the next it's
a pluto
greeko is rico
let's call out
a cludo for a scene
down in tricot
Lord of the Underworld
He dwelt
among the shadows
within his halls
decked in gloom,
hallow-eyed souls
bemoan man's shared fate,
enthroned upon the
bones of the dead.
I was told
that pluto was cold
but I thought how odd
when pluto's a dog!
Pluto: Hey you guys, I feel left out.
Neptune: Well, no doubt.
(Uranus: Nah, too easy.)
Saturn: Ha, should have got a fancy ring.
Jupiter: Bigness is my thing.
Mars: Sorry, dude, you got the boot.
Earth: We have life and tons of loot.
Venus: Look at me, I'm so hot.
Mercury: I'm burning here in a sunny spot.
Sun: Shut up, you stupid planets, I rule.
Universe: No you don't, you silly fool.