# The great poetry showdown has a winner! **URL:** \ **Category:** Fun & Games\ **Tags:** gravedig\ **Created:** [October 13, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277 "2009-10-13T14:42:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bob](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@bob](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bob)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/41 "2009-10-14T14:28:50Z")
All the rest of it. It’s all fishy. Like the bit about the deep fried DNA. They should serve that up with wasabi. ---
**Author:** ![Fox](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Fox](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Fox)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/42 "2009-10-14T16:28:20Z")
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**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/43 "2009-10-14T17:34:40Z")
> [@Fox](#): > > … That’s an enigma. Stigma. Manifestation of untoward unholiness. I’m Proud, That the old silverback still has his back. ---
**Author:** ![jimipresley](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/jimipresley/32/102867_2.png) [@jimipresley](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/jimipresley)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/44 "2009-10-14T17:39:11Z")
> [@sandman](#): > > [quote=“Fox”]… That’s an enigma. Stigma. Manifestation of untoward unholiness. I’m Proud, That the old silverback still has his back.[/quote] You were given a haiku. Stop already with the competitive profundity. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/45 "2009-10-14T17:40:38Z")
[quote=“sandman”]Kiss your pockmarked, centuries-old face, Your smacked-out junkie lips In the bone-chilling cold of the subterranean cast concrete, Bastardized by the profane ineptitude of the disadvantaged With still the hard cold skag-cash that could not have been Better spent. Still I get a hardon and my mind swoons. Your goose-pimpled thighs run rough under my chapped hands, But I care not. I’m getting my hole. I can feel it. I can taste it. Smell. The last night’s hair gel and mascara run down my cheeks And I taste it like a bitter miasma of things I should have done (Had I heeded my parents’ advice) And I revel in the utter revulsion, The utter awareness that I’m in the Moment. And you’re not.[/quote] “And you’re not” was edited out by snadman lite, who thinks it makes the writer sound even more daft than he is. Don’t dredge. Some things are Better left Unsaid. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/46 "2009-10-14T17:44:22Z")
> [@jimipresley](#): > > [quote=“sandman”][quote=“Fox”]… That’s an enigma. Stigma. Manifestation of untoward unholiness. I’m Proud, That the old silverback still has his back.[/quote] You were given a haiku. Stop already with the competitive profundity.[/quote] Catch a wave and you Too, could be Sitting on top of The World. ---
**Author:** ![elektronisk](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@elektronisk](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/elektronisk)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/47 "2009-10-14T18:25:55Z")
Can’t we vote for more than one? My favorites so far are (I edited the first one) 😛 : [quote=“the chief”]Midnight city Broken tales Of wonder, faith, and heart Of legends whispered For love lost Without a chance to start The Lonely Man Stands, hunched and braced He stares into the [strike]void[/strike]gin Salvation close Just within reach Wondering If [strike]they’d[/strike] only he had been born [strike]Play some Floyd[/strike]Leonard Cohen[/quote] And this one which is Flobtastic: [quote=“Dragonbones”]Her eyes like glittering spider webs, laced with early morning dew capture fast my fluttering spirit, lost in their enchanting view.[/quote] But I give mine to the Bukowski/Ginsberg twist on this one. Did you really write that? I’ll give you all upper case for that one. WOW. [quote=“sandman”]Kiss your pockmarked, centuries-old face, Your smacked-out junkie lips In the bone-chilling cold of the subterranean cast concrete, Bastardized by the profane ineptitude of the disadvantaged With still the hard cold skag-cash that could not have been Better spent. Still I get a hardon and my mind swoons. Your goose-pimpled thighs run rough under my chapped hands, But I care not. I’m getting my hole. I can feel it. I can taste it. Smell. The last night’s hair gel and mascara run down my cheeks And I taste it like a bitter miasma of things I should have done (Had I heeded my parents’ advice) And I revel in the utter revulsion, The utter awareness that I’m in the Moment And you’re not.[/quote] ---
**Author:** ![almas\_john](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@almas\_john](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/almas_john)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/48 "2009-10-20T14:26:17Z")
Ode de Adult Engrishy Classes My blood simmers. I find myself chewing on anything that comes along. The dirt of Taipei has infected my dreams The sooty surfaces of the chick’s boots only make me randier with their filth. I dream of sleek ladies barking in the night Their chins scraping against the blackboard, as I do them from behind. My dreams have recycled everything of the human past Everything is awash in urine and lust, the urine a kind of propaganda Adult demonstrations, juicy tacos, 550NT per hour, and cheap libations. Has the Maple Syrup arrived? ---
**Author:** ![TomHill](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@TomHill](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/TomHill)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/49 "2009-10-20T14:37:05Z")
I voted for thechief before I even saw what we are supposed to look at. When I get around to looking at what I am supposed to be voting over I will still vote for thechief. So he needs another vote tallied, banana man. ---
**Author:** ![TomHill](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@TomHill](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/TomHill)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/50 "2009-10-20T14:40:37Z")
I woke to find the garden changed, We don’t float in air. and she said i must write this thing My life began to care. (punctuation is deliberate) ---
**Author:** ![occhimarroni](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@occhimarroni](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/occhimarroni)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/51 "2009-10-20T14:53:36Z")
This was orignally meant to be a spoken word that I preformed in college: Insight From others I question insight As I peer through the paradigm of a belated mindest Related to what I can’t forget… You But reality brings sobering concoctions Of thoughts when a man had his own options Often which could not be revealed Until you stepped out of the picture And the book was sealed For when I looked in retrospect It became clear to me that in your mind Was a cryptic septic tank And the further I sank It ranked of a repugnant excrement Left behind by your dispicable decadence What an awakening is the pain of a mishapen fate That only brings dogs to the gate Of a marriage that exists solely in a state – Of mind, the kind that sends misery down my spine That is why from others I question insight because In hindsight what they say is trite They only play on one side of this fight And you could never truly correct this Without the realization That a subjugation could bring about unwanted domination That which if eradicated would brake the static And I could say “I’ve had it” and follow my own way And save face from the games you choose to play ---
**Author:** ![jimipresley](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/jimipresley/32/102867_2.png) [@jimipresley](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/jimipresley)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/52 "2009-10-21T12:23:50Z")
Four more days for entries, chaps and chapettes. ---
**Author:** ![TainanCowboy](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tainancowboy/32/16118_2.png) [@TainanCowboy](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/TainanCowboy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/53 "2009-10-21T23:48:25Z")
[quote=“almas john”]Ode de Adult Engrishy Classes My blood simmers. I find myself chewing on anything that comes along. The dirt of Taipei has infected my dreams The sooty surfaces of the chick’s boots only make me randier with their filth. I dream of sleek ladies barking in the night Their chins scraping against the blackboard, as I do them from behind. My dreams have recycled everything of the human past Everything is awash in urine and lust, the urine a kind of propaganda Adult demonstrations, juicy tacos, 550NT per hour, and cheap libations. Has the Maple Syrup arrived?[/quote] Well said. Gritty realism. Perhaps you might work something into it about …"…a Lad from Nantucket…"… :ponder: ---
**Author:** ![zender](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/71c47a/32.png) [@zender](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/zender)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/55 "2009-10-22T07:54:36Z")
✋ I too once lead, but alas I’ve lost. My votes once cast, are now cast aside. (Fucking Cocksuckers!) (Cheating Bastards!) :fume: ---
**Author:** ![jimipresley](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/jimipresley/32/102867_2.png) [@jimipresley](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/jimipresley)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/56 "2009-10-22T08:44:49Z")
Read the rules, ladies. Voting starts on the 24th of October. Every time I add someone to the poll, it clears. No more poets will be added after the 24th. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/57 "2009-10-22T08:53:02Z")
EYE am the VOICE of a GENERATION! I shall NOT go gently into that good night. I SHALL NOT! CHARLATANS! FALSE PROPHETS! BECURSED art THOU! No more shall I rhyme. Because I have been SORELY wronged by the WING-ED serpents of vile vissicitude. HEATHENS! BENIGHTED FOOLS! I CURSE the foetid loins of your swamp-crawling forefathers. YOUR NAMES! It is YOUR NAMES! that will live in INFAMY! Dastardly dealings afoot! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Buttercup](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Buttercup)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/58 "2009-10-22T08:54:16Z")
Which ‘good night’? ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/59 "2009-10-22T09:00:58Z")
MY poem had women’s thighs in it. I’ll say no more, but the imputation is without question. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/60 "2009-10-22T09:03:37Z")
An EVIL cabal of philistinism, your ilk will reap the fucking whirlwind. The WHIRLWIND! Mark my words, and mark them WELL, you naysayers and cut-price lager-swilling AMENTS. For your time WILL come, and vengeance will be swift and sure. That terrible swift sword shall be but a toothpick compared to MY judgment. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Buttercup](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Buttercup)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277/61 "2009-10-22T09:10:36Z")
I think you should have a sit down. I would enter the email I just wrote, if confidentiality didn’t make that impossible. It was beautiful. I would like to enter this competition, but little mention has been made of the prize, jp. I doubt I can be arsed unless there will be significant financial payoff. What say you? [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277.md?page=2) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/the-great-poetry-showdown-has-a-winner/54277.md?page=4)