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NeoGAF's Poetry Corner - #62: "Winter's Eve"

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Theme: "Winter's Eve"


Optional Secondary Objective: "Meter sans Rhyme"
Pay attention to the meter and rhythm of your piece, but avoid rhymes. This does not necessarily mean blank verse; feel free to vary the rhythm if you choose.

Some simple info on meter here.

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I'm a shit poet, but I'll give it a shot:

Death came for the man
Bringing with it a bitter chill
And knives cold as ice

He asked why
as he lay in the snow
weary and wounded

Death replied softly
That they both knew
it would always end like this

The man nodded slightly
As the stars rose
And the light left his eyes
 
On Ghostly Roads

Maelstrom of white
Guardian of the Pass
Through which my future lies
Passage I must ensure

The trees of summer's death
hang caked in icy hoarfrost
reaching up the snow-laden trail
like demons from a different Hell.

I bury my head forward and down
Snakes of white wisp past my feet
Bidding me warning and urging my leave
To make haste back from whence I came

But that request I can not fulfill
Though the ice on my face burns
And the cold winds fill me with hate
I can only move forward

What a lonely road I travel
I can only hope that shelter comes soon
I dream to make it through this Pass
I hear it's not kind
 
I shan't confess I have two loves.
To you and she my faith is sect.
Weakly on knees I love you both.
My heart never will speak the truth.
I feel you fade your flesh is chill.
Your lids fall low when nights get long.
So soon she comes to nip my neck.
Why frown on me, the cold comforts.
The eve of her arc has arrived.
I say goodnight, autumn goodnight.


Edit: I wanted to put "...when days get short" lol. Oh well.
 
Burn, burn, fire! burn forever!
I still need your warmth and your light!
As long as the fire will burn,
The cold winter will never come!

Soon, soon, the fire will go out,
Your autumn will come to its end.
Spring and summer will never come,
For this world only knows winter.

Spring and summer are illusions,
Spring and summer are in your eyes;
But soon the fire will go out,
Without its light, what can you see?

But the beasts lurking in the woods,
But the beasts don't need your fire;
The dim moonlight is bright enough
To light the fire in their eyes.
 
winters coming a week too soon
blizzards blow cold tunes
met its chill hiking alone
my frost bitten bones
the weather man lied to me
i'm dead
 
Mangled in a thick oily fog
Gray is our sky
Broken pieces litter
What remains of our cold world
But the ice keeps pristine reminders of what was
Just enough to make one regret

A forgotten face hides
Inside of a frozen stream
A crack forms at its cross
And a razor sharp wind cuts trough
the remnants of my skin

Up rises she, the terrible
The one who carries out judgment
On those who served our destruction

Perhaps I'll be spared
After all, I just helped out
 
Gather in the tops'l
Rally round the mast
And if a pirate take you
Best pray he kill you fast

For when the wind howls through the sheets
And the deck is slick with snow
You'll know you're on the roiling deeps
Where serpent shadows grow

Gather in the tops'l
Rally at the bow
And if a serpent take you
Best hope he eats you now

For when the gunwales kiss the waves
And the shrouds are thick with frost
You'll feel each fathom 'neath the ship
And know we may be lost

Gather in the tops'l
Rally to the deck
And if the swells should take us
Best cling upon the wreck

For when the moon shall hide her face
And the ice looms hard and high
You'll yearn for summer's warm embrace
And landfall in your eye

Gather in the tops'l
Rally round the mast
If e'er you rest upon the shore
Be sure that it won't last
 
The field hadnÂ’t been touched since October
and it snowed early this year
and I saw that something had traipsed through the deep fluff to die
just one set of tracks leading out towards the middle of
the field, hadnÂ’t been touched in a few days.
It snowed again a couple days later and I
saw again the faint reminders of the animal tracks
just about covered, but still there
And then a few days later gone
from then to April when the snow melted enough
the track was there again
one trail, nothing else had pursued
and after many nights
the earth had dried and I walked out to see it
the preserved death
it was decaying but still there
and the next time gone
picked off by something
 
Winter's Eve

Sometimes she would smoke the air
Behind a knowing smile: Bogart chic
The Christmas tree was starker that year
Holy days sneak upon me, still
She gripped her mug like a vice
A side of mulled cider winding
Around bruised figs and egos
Horny and thorny headed
I wonÂ’t get frost bit next time
I have a chest full of itchy sweaters
 
1. Ashes1396- "winter's ashes"
2. FelixOrion - "On Ghostly Roads"
3. NotTheGuyYouKill - Untitled
HM: Lufiaddict
 
Results

1. Ashes1396: winter's ashes (11pts***)
2. FelixOrion: On Ghostly Roads (10pts*)
3. NotTheGuyYouKill: Untitled (9pts**)
4. disappeared: Unititled (7pts*)
5. ZeroRay: Tide Catches Sand (6pts*)
6. pakkit: Winter's Eve (4pts)
7. Cyan: Gather In the Tops'l (3pts*)
8. Lufiaddict: Untitled (3pts)
9. EloquentM: Untitled (1pt)
10. Tesseract: Untitled (pt)


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