@Hawkstar, so will we be having a new contest, if you were the one who posted the comment earlier? (just making sure since the tone of writing seems a bit different)

If not, I don’t mind judging instead and just not judging my poem, since it has been a while. Also if I do, it would be easier if people resubmitted their poems here from the old thread.

@everyone! Please let’s bring back the poetry contest!

I just finished my entry (couldn’t think of the right rhymes back in June so I gave up, wrote a second/third draft with new metaphors for 1.5-2 hours, and voila!), but I don’t want to be the only CBer submitting to the contest. Is anyone else going to write something?

I am still doing this, judging on the 8th now? Please enter @Lyric!

I really, really miss this guys! PLEASE revive 🥺

Here’s my entry! It’s a bit shorter than my usual, though.

I thought that the world
Was a kindly place
That it was safe for all
That the future was bright
That childhood would last forever
When did these thoughts fr ac tu re?
Ki nd? S af e? Br ig ht? Fo re ver?
When was my inn oc ence lost?
And now that it has been fr ac tu re d
Can it ever be re pair ed?

Could Break

A murder of crows
alight by the stream
to play skipping stones
and peck the ground clean
and dance upon glass
that glisten with cracks
just like the wicked
fractures of past

I just wrote three different poems based on the prompt… ah, well. Here’s one~ (And @Moon Wolf, I love how you split up the words to convey the idea of fracturing!)

christmas lights that

don’t turn on anymore, and

the way you look at me but

refuse to meet my eyes, and

the way i swept up the sharp shards of my heart

and threw them in the dustbin

(there’s no way to mend something really, really broken

are unable to change back.)

you’d think the worst thing was that i lost you,

but it was worse to realize that i hadn’t, because

i’d never had you; not even when the christmas lights

glowed brighter than my heart and

you always looked at me and

your fingers wrapped around mine; not even when

i wasn’t fractured, but only

about to be.

wait when’s the due date????

Could’ve sworn I posted the results already… Huh

Third Place: Lyric

This poem is short, and it’s crazy how well you described a lot in a small amount. It seems so haunting, and I’m loving the crows in this <3 I especially like the part about them playing skipping stones, it’s cool how it aligns with it well

Second Place: Moon Wolf

Like Amethyst mentioned, it’s a really cool affect how you broke up the words, really creating fractures in your poem. It’s really relatable as well. When did your childhood safety start to drift away? It’s so different for everyone, and can be hard to pinpoint… I think it was so gradual for me I don’t even know.

First Place: Amethyst!

So beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time! I can totally relate to the feeling of breaking but still clinging on… I especially like that first line about Christmas lights that don’t turn on anymore, a happy thing that broke.
Congratulations, you’re the best judge!