Doleon's Color Poetry Contest - Winners Posted!

[Ex Infernum Astris]

Awesome! Thanks for entering!

[Panthino the Moth]

I know I always say I will enter your contests, and then life gets in the way, and I don't; but this time I really will. Hopefully, as it is the holidays, life will stay out of my poetry-writing and allow me to actually get some poems done.

*Knocks on wood*

[Ex Infernum Astris]

Bump

[inowa123]

Doleon

kuroi_meimu_sasayaki

can you like reserve spot for me?! please! i promise i will pay the entry fee. i will keep my word! but for now i will be earning that entry fee and thinking of yet another crappy failure poem. please and thank you

Aww, don't be so hard on yourself! Yes, A spot will be reserved.

oh thank you so much! but erm i'm sorry the poem will be delivered a bit late since i'm going on a ski trip and erm it shall be my inspiration since the ride shall be quite long. i think i can post it on the 28th or 29th i'm so sorry xp

[Ex Infernum Astris]

kuroi_meimu_sasayaki

Doleon

kuroi_meimu_sasayaki

can you like reserve spot for me?! please! i promise i will pay the entry fee. i will keep my word! but for now i will be earning that entry fee and thinking of yet another crappy failure poem. please and thank you

Aww, don't be so hard on yourself! Yes, A spot will be reserved.

oh thank you so much! but erm i'm sorry the poem will be delivered a bit late since i'm going on a ski trip and erm it shall be my inspiration since the ride shall be quite long. i think i can post it on the 28th or 29th i'm so sorry xp

lol it's fine.

Skiing!?!?! I'm so jealous! Fun fun!

[inowa123]

Doleon

kuroi_meimu_sasayaki

Doleon

kuroi_meimu_sasayaki

can you like reserve spot for me?! please! i promise i will pay the entry fee. i will keep my word! but for now i will be earning that entry fee and thinking of yet another crappy failure poem. please and thank you

Aww, don't be so hard on yourself! Yes, A spot will be reserved.

oh thank you so much! but erm i'm sorry the poem will be delivered a bit late since i'm going on a ski trip and erm it shall be my inspiration since the ride shall be quite long. i think i can post it on the 28th or 29th i'm so sorry xp

lol it's fine.

Skiing!?!?! I'm so jealous! Fun fun!

actually i will be paying you today and posting my poem today. i'm to lazy and bored so i guess this is the only thing i can do except sleep. and skiing isn't as fun as you think it is. to me, it's just another way to be wounded easily. oh and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[inowa123]

The Endless Blue Field

I stumbled around in the corn field
Talking to myself of what kind of wonders might reveal
“Wouldn’t it be strange if this abundance of corn was blue?”

Muttering words unintelligible
I knew this aqua fantasy
Was just too absurd to be true
Indeed it is not legible

Though, I still ponder about
So I strolled along taking a pointless route
Fell down I did, gazing at the azure sky
“Oh a remarkable sight,” I stuttered

How I notice the cobalt and white
Seem to somehow link and unite
Just like the corn field, the sky
Was everlasting with all sorts of plants

From here on this flat ground I viewed
The splendid clouds was the corn
And the endless navy sky was the field

Oh there I saw the sky as a never-ending field
Sparkled and dazzled with all kinds of assortments
I knew someday I would be stumbling through that continual turquoise field
Taking a meaningless route and pondering about
Looking back down there
Moreover, very thankful that I am up here

But while I am still lying on the earth
I wish I could take flight
To see that spacious, delft sight
The porcelain atmosphere will always remain
Never to be forgotten
It will always and forever sustain

With memories of patchy blue
I bid this corn field ado
And scampered away
With pleasant relations
Of aquamarine sensations
Of an endless blue field
With its varieties of assortments

[inowa123]

that was the lamest poem in the history of poetry

[Sima Zhongda]

The Han Dynasty, whose ruling element was fire, was supplanted by Wei, under the element of earth (hence its first reign title, Yellow Dawn, which is also a reference to a contemporary poem containing the couplet, "the pale sky is on the wane/ next, a yellow one shall reign" wink ; Wei is represented in some well-known sources by a crane and the color blue. The "drown the flames" lines are also a subtle reference to the victories my namesake (who was connected with the element of water) won against Shu (the remnants of the Han).
This piece is something of a stylistic experiment, so bear with me.


Drop the Dippers Into the Sea


A yellow dawn reigns;
drown the flames.

The horizon chokes on black powder.
There's not a half-league of pale sky
to be seen - crane feathers the only blue
under our banner.

Blast out the riverlands' green;
drown the flames.
At century-spanning war's end,
only earth remains.

Beat the drums and raise the flags:
only blood can seal the wounds
of this thrice-torn land.

So unfix the pole star;
drop the dippers into the sea -
Time and tide and precession lay waste
even thousand-year dynasties.
When heaven reels, man and steel
will prop it up.

The pale sky is on the wane -
next, a blue-starred one shall reign.
Deceit and integrity bear but one name;
and for him, all would proclaim,
"Bury the rivers and drown the flames."

[Ex Infernum Astris]

Don't be hard on yourself! Thanks for entering!

[Sima Zhongda]

Hey, Doleon, your mule will be 100g richer if you log on with it right now. whee

[Ostrich Sex and Tequila]

Sima Zhongda

Hey, Doleon, your mule will be 100g richer if you log on with it right now. whee

Or it would have been, if the event hadn't had an aneurysm and rendered every account that was participating in it "unavailable."

[Ex Infernum Astris]

bump

[Kiria Delusional Kitty]

I have a poem in progress. Hope I'm not too late. Sending the trade now.

[Erin the Goddess of Hope]

Here my entry..

" Me and Blue. "

When the days were long,
and the hours sweet,
when it was you and me..
I knew we'd make it through.
We knew each other
right and left
I liked green and you blue.
Elephants to Bears..
And Rose to Tulips.
But somehow
it all just screwed up.

You left for school,
and I knew it too.
and slowly I
became obessed with you.
I made everything I did was around blue
Your name was sacred
and it seemed okay.
but all along I was dead.
You left me empty
the only memory we had
was around me in blue
and all I knew
was I needed you.

As long as I wore blue
it seemed you were holding me
in your arms like you use to.
It was just me and you.
but now its just me and a color.
Me and Blue.
Its all I have left
to remember you.