I couldn’t scrape something together for last prompt unfortunately, but I’m already getting an inkling for perspective…
@Thalorwin, it can be a little disappointing, but keep in mind it takes time! It took me a whole year of me entering every time until I won first 😳

Perspective

The perspective

Is funny

Only one side

I can see

But does it matter?

I’m not sure

It must how

It’s meant to be

You see it one way

But it means another

How can I

See the right

Perspective?

I look

But I can’t find

Where ‘s the right perspective?

Quick reminder that I’m judging in two days :}

-Perspective
“I think that we could last forever”
“I’m afraid that everything will disappear”
“Just trust me”
Right
‘Just trust me’
Look at where that led me
People say to hear you out
But you’ll only manipulate your words
And slink back into my heart
Maybe it is only a matter of perspective
But as far as I’m concerned
You said you don’t love her
But you must
Because you up and left me in the dust
All these emotions crowding in my brain
They had to go somewhere
There should be down in my heart
But you broke that
And now you’re messing with my head
Playing with my mind
My thoughts are about you all the time
You left me shattered
I should fix me instead
But your name is in every moment
You’re messing with my head
Everything really did disappear
My world has crumbled in mid-air
Your empty apologizes can’t be heard
I won’t except a single word
And yet you’re still
Messing with my head
Playing with my mind
My thoughts are about you all the time
You left me shattered
I should fix me instead
But your name is in every moment
You’re messing with my head
So did you leave me for a good reason?
Even if it broke the promise of us?
So did you run towards someone who was hurt?
Even if I was getting hurt myself?
It’s all about perspective
View
I couldn’t change mine
But maybe you did
“Alone again”
“What’s the point?”

I’ll extend the judging date one more week, since we don’t have many entries; I’ll be judging on Nov 19th. Thanks to Thalorwin and Hawkstar for entering, though!

Enough

I am not enough
And you will never hear me say
I am happy with myself
Within me
It feels like
The things to do seem endless
As even though
Others can be satisfied with themselves
I see why
Many think they will never be enough
And while
I have made many achievements
There is much more I could be—
So I will never feel that
I am enough

(Now read it again backwards)

Ummm, I think it’s past the judging date…

Just a quick reminder!!

Yikes I’m so sorry, I forgot that the judging date was Wednesday! Tyvm for reminding me, Thalorwin.

Third Place:

Thalorwin! I like how this poem generally addresses the concept of “perspective”; the theme of how perspectives can be narrow, and how it’s hard to see outside one’s own perspective, provides an interesting take on it. It’s also interesting to consider that, due to one’s perspective, one can see something differently from how it actually is. Good job!

Second Place:

Hawkstar! I really love this one, actually. The storyline, if one could call it that, is well-chosen, and it almost seems like a song, with the same cadence and swing and casual rhyming. The speech in the beginning and end is a very good touch, and the whole thing is caught up with the idea of perspectives even though you scarcely ever mention it directly; the clash of alternate perspectives is woven through all of it. I especially love the lines “I won’t except a single word / And yet you’re still / Messing with my head / Playing with my mind / My thoughts are about you all the time”. Beautiful:)

First Place:

Moon Wolf!! This is amazing. The use of reverse poetry is very powerful – it reminds me a bit of Brian Bilstone’s poems – and it’s impressive how well you pulled it off. In the true style of reverse poetry, it’s a bit puzzling at first, but when you start reading it the other way around, everything starts unraveling and starting to make sense, with an added surge of power and hope. It’s a perfect way to reflect perspective: how you can look at the same thing in such diametrically opposed ways. Congrats, you’re the next judge :DD

Thank you so much for first place! Everyone else’s poems were really great. 🙂

The next prompt is rain and I’ll judge December 11th. Look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

Blue

Drowning in white-capped obsidian waves
Lost in the deep ever always never cruelly blue
Until you’re drowning it’s the equivalent of falling
Sinking is eternal and fear is raw raw raw
It’s always blue-sad blue, crying blue, hurting blue
Blue is a refraction of mourning, a reflection of me

Until it’s passion vengeance broken fire burning red
Cold still brokens mean accepting fateful demise
But alive means red red red-red defines the hate
Crimson lips contrast to the fangs hidden underneath
Shiny vermillion polish disguises livid claws in red
They wanted me a porcelain doll with lips painted shut
Stolen smiles and perfect lies under layers of paint

You never pity Medusa until her legacy becomes yours
What danger lies in the deep never hurts scarred hearts
What was beauty?/let the blood become your blush
If I screamed, would they even care enough to hear me?
What was agony?/a butterfly pinned lifelessly to a board
My heart is sliced on the violin strings of the azure waves
What was love?/A red bleeding heart full of poison

The waves cresting higher to my cold stone cheeks lips neck
Ironically sinking like an anchor rivaling my shattered state
It’s red it’s blue blueredblueredblueredredredredredredred
It hurt and she hurt and I hurt and she made them hurt
Escape means defiance but I’m so so so tired of this big mess
Numb fingers skim the water searching for something solid
Salty tears slip down and plunge into brackish waves

Veneers of the unspoken slip off my now fragile shoulders
Forged memories of what was love unravel against the tide
The red that ebbed my vision fades into a serene blue
Dreaming blue sleeping blue falling blue forever blue
The waves are no longer the monsters that I thought
Lips red red red twitch into a tranquil sense of peace
Foamy spray diminishes as my head sinks further
All fear fades as I plummet to a great blue unknown

Why did I fear the protection of the deep dangerous blue?