Dark Poetry

Contest is Over

• Contest was judged on April 26
• Rewards: Gold: 200, Silver: 100, Bronze: 50
• Final notes:
  Thank you for all of your entries. I'm sorry that all of you couldn't have won, but I had to choose. I loved all of them. Hope you had fun. ^_^

Contest Winners

1. Trigger.

   I stare into the darkness.1 / I look down at the handgun in my hand.2 / Should i?3 / I was really dead inside anyway.4

   by XxGenesisVampirexX 100 words, 4 comments, on Apr 25 9:04 PM. In , Dark, Depression
   Gold trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. [remove]
2. Virgin Feast

   1 2 / I watch her as she sleeps in bed / Soon all her dreams will turn to dread / She softly breathes her mind at rest / Her soul and body

   by Andy Stephenson 200 words, 25 comments, on Aug 31 11:03 AM 2007. In Dark, First person, Horror
   Silver trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
3. Dark Sins

   Whispered words of death 1 / uttered in the sinful night2 / Red crimson rivers3 / trickle down a marble pillar4

   by dark-fantasies 100 words, 3 comments, on Apr 15 11:14 PM. In , Dark, Poetry
   Bronze trophy winner

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
4. Swallowed

   I'm swallowed whole1 / By blessed darkness2 / Plunging me into a 3 / Divine oblivion4 / You don't care

   by Friesian 100 words, 2 comments, on Apr 1 5:29 AM. In Dark, Depression, Poem

   • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

Entries [18]

• Aloness in my world

  I escape the world by running,running through the forest to reach my world.To reach my freedom to reach my thoughts to get away from all th

  by KissMeInTheWater 300 words, 24 comments, on Mar 19 4:56 PM. In

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Breaking Point (Poem)

  So all you can do is promise yourself:
  'Tomorrow will be better'
  And try desperately to believe it

  by Paragonz Shadow 400 words, 9 comments, on Apr 25 10:16 PM. In Dark, Depression, Poetry, Sad, Second person

  • Commented on by judge.
• An Abusive Father's Love

  by CrimsonxxxTearsxxx 100 words, 3 comments, on Apr 25 10:17 PM. In , Dark, Depression, Fiction, First person, Life, Pain, Poem, Poetry

  • Commented on by judge.
• The Blood

  I came in to the house and you were laying there in a pool of your blood with a gun shot to your head. I scream and pick you up took my jacket off and heal it over the hole in your head your blood bleed through it all over m

  by V l 200 words, 3 comments, on Apr 25 10:38 PM. In Poem dark real pain

  • Commented on by judge.
• Depression

  The darkness inside grows 1 / I am unsure of why its really there 2 / I have this huge lonelyness inside 3 / To prove the dark

  by GrimDeath 100 words, 5 comments, on Jan 26 9:00 AM. In Dark, Depression

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Versus Self

  spiking coils inward / furious frustration tumbling around / breaking apart a fragile rice-paper screen / previously established / tonight on faux news / fuck this! / frighten the everlasting into showing its teet

  by intoothandclaw 200 words, 2 comments, on Apr 23 2:32 AM. In Dark, Depression, Freeform, Freewrite, Poetry

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Life's Burden

  You come to me bearing weights1 / Of chains and bleeding skin,2 / Showing me the burdened marks3 / Of scars to never mend

  by Out-Of-Eden 200 words, 2 comments, on Apr 25 11:12 PM. In , Angst, Dark, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Sad

  • Commented on by judge.
• Lite.

  I woke up and the room was hollow. / Hard to swallow. Lacking value. / Thinning substance spread on shallow. / Nothing left for me to long

  by Delfishie 100 words, 4 comments, on Jul 21 2:54 AM 2007. In , Angst, Poem, Poetry

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Beast Within

  There is a stranger inside me, a monster.1 / We share the same eyes2 / But he refuses to see the truth3 / We wear the same face

  by Kat222 400 words, 28 comments, on Feb 8 1:26 PM

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Jar of Poison

  My heart beats loud / Now that the music has stopped / Silence blares in my ear drums / I feel that they will burst / My sleep deprived lids cry out for rest / But rest does not come / I feel like I am drowning in

  by JuliaAlexandrovna 100 words, 2 comments, on Apr 26 12:37 AM

  • Commented on by judge.
• The Darkness Within

  He destroyed the one who loved him the most...

  by xMomo 300 words, 10 comments, on Jan 12 3:35 AM. In , Pain, Poem

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• Beating me down

  Hate, i'm feeling tired1 / my time has gone today,2 / I'm feelin suicide, 3 / sometimes thats okay4 / I'm

  by Jd 3-16 100 words, 2 comments, on Feb 28 6:29 AM. In Dark, Depression, Pain, Poem

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The night is quiet

  The night is quiet / except for: / The sound of noise, being drowned in silence / The sound of inner darkness overwhelming electric lights / The sound of life, pumping, beating, heaving, spilling / She screams, a si

  by elfflower1989 100 words, 4 comments, on Feb 5 7:17 AM. In Dark, Depression

  • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
• The Weight of Pain

  There is a pain that's deep within, that one cannot let go. / The pain is chained ino my heart and the weight hangs heavy there. / You cannot run from place to place to leave t

  by skye01 100 words, 3 comments, on Apr 26 4:15 AM. In Depression

  • Commented on by judge.

Comments

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  Midnightmare
  April 26
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  So, they HAVE to be depressing? what if you have a dark poem that isn't depressing but is still kind of... sad or something.
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    descending-angel
    April 26
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    dark or depressing is fine. ^^
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  Andy Stephenson
  April 26
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  Thanks Ruth

  Thanks so very much for the silver trophy and all the points. I appreciate them. I'm very pleased that you like my poem. Thanks for hosting this contest.
  
  Andy