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Artist's Name: Travis
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Moorn]
Poem Category: Nature
Poem's Title: Supernova
Poem:
Flares rising high from the bowels of the blaze
Highlight the path through the star-forged maze
Arise from the shadow of the quicksilver moon
Arise astral pyre, come astral doom

Eruptions of light split your fiery skin
Minute searing tastes of the hellfire within
A thousand worlds to fill your thirst
One day to prove that Fire conquers Earth


Stretch outward and burst, oh my prodigal sun
Spend the lives of mankind so he pays for all he's done
To ruin his homeworld these thousands of years
And the creatures he's killed with his murderous spear


Now is the time to vanquish his lust
For now ashes his works and his wonders as dust
In a wave of white fire cold justice is paid
For the world and the marvels mankind has betrayed

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Artist's Name:Allen Yokom
Artist's Elftown User Name:[Martini_Kiss]
Poem Category: Dark
Poem's Title: The Bleeding Dove
Poem:
Ever after, lives as Death.
Alone in darkness, following its’ path.
Forbidden loves drove me to want.
Your endless hate, you stay just to taunt.
I used to dream of love, I dreamed for love.
Now, my world is haunted by a bleeding dove.

Singing for someone to help me.
To fly away. Past mistakes and falters.
Sewing up my broken wing, I fall.
Only if you heard my plea,
Could I have fixed our ever-cracking structure.
We’ve fallen so far apart. I’d repair this wall.

The Bleeding Dove cries to love, cries for love.
I sing with him to break the silence.
We’ve lost our love-To them you know!
Constantly we fought, consistent, painful violence.

The red painted mess insists,
That I look for someone new.
Picking up the broken love of tainted bliss.
I keep my dove hidden surely.
While he heals, wounded by your arrow’s flurry.

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Artist's Name: Iszy
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Pillowthief]
Poem Category: Sad
Poem's Title: Suffering
Poem:

Sleeping softly, the winds blow true.
You sleep so peacefully, under a sky so blue.
Laying so still, so quiet you be.
Sunshine lights your face, so beautiful I see.
Time is exiled, Fate stands still,
Chance stands in silence, Destiny has it's fill.
The battle subsides, both sides kneel and cry,
The overwhelming sorrow, as you give your last sigh.
Blood drips from my knife, so dark.
Too late! I feel your spirit embark.
The horror as I realize, what have I done?
Crying out in pain, I reach for the sun.
Hoping to burn, to escape the memory,
Why? I ask, I blame insainity.


Suffering for eternity, must be my fate.
For Ourselves, we all have reasons to hate.

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Artist's Name: Emily Holland
Artist's Elftown User Name: [emmerlicious]
Poem Category: Fantasy
Poem's Title: Raven's Watcher
Poem:
As the sun settles down in the red western sky,
The party sleeps, and the protectors sigh.
The day was long and the battle was fierce,
And so many bodies the slayers did pierce.
As Slayer drifts off, Raven awakes.
She goes to see the forests, the mountains, the lakes.
She feels the breeze and takes a long breath.
She puts on her guise to hide from mourning death.
Her friends are gone, but their memory remains,
She feels her hands, her gloves, and blood stains.
While in her hurt, a watcher nearby
Hides in the shadows and tries not to cry.
He’s loved her so long and she doesn’t know,
But he can’t stop trying, there’s no where to go.
Under the crescent moon, the slayer falls to his knees
Saying, “Help me to help her, please, someone please!”
Alone for so long and knowing he’s lost,
He continues to try, not caring the cost.
In the near future, because of his fault,
The final battle will come to a halt.
He cared for her, so he gave up his life.
This stupid game is so hard, too much strife.
As the celebration continues, Raven looks on,
Looking for someone who cared, now long gone.

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Artist's Name:Bia
Artist's Elftown User Name: [adnihilo]
Poem Category: Realistic
Poem Status: Dueling
Poem's Title: Bad day
Poem:
I had this little problem
That I’d get really sad
And for no reason at all
The depression really bad

My eyes would cloud
And fill with tears
My face close on itself
All the pain of all the years

Every name I’d been called
Every hurt and every slight
Every time I’d reached out
And they ignored my plight

All the pain I’d ever felt
Welled beneath my heart
But the tears, they never fell
And I never came apart

Until the day you found me
Curled up on the floor
Hidden in a closet
Way behind the door

I squinted then I glared
As you stood in the light
You took away my secrecy
You took ‘way my respite

They say the one who fears naught
Has absolutely no hope
So nothing to lose and nothing to fear
No reason at all to cope

But for once I felt fear
With you standing near
Watching me there
With nary a sneer

You just stood so silently
Waiting to see what I would do
And with you just standing there
All this was, to me, so new


You blinked at me
And I sat straight
You beckoned me
I sighed at fate

I shook my head at your request
I would not leave my sanctuary
Not now, when you saw me here
If you wanted, you’d have to tarry

So you came in and shut the door
You turned on a light, knelt at my side
You looked at me and I looked back
I watched with my eyes held wide

You took my hand and spoke to me
Careful, oh so carefully
Like I would break should you yell
Like I would break should you bully

You spoke so calmly to little old me
I watched amazed as you held my hand
You told me you’d care for me now
That my hourglass wasn’t yet out of sand

You to me to hold on
To keep going for a little while
But you don’t know how hard that is
To keep putting on a smile

When all I really want to do
Is fall away from life
Put away my pain
Put away my strife

But since you told me
To keep holding on
I guess I could try
As long as you promise I’m not just some pawn

To play with and dangle
A hope and a bit
To see how far I stretch
Before I give in and quit


So don’t stay unless you mean to
Don’t go once you promise to stay
So don’t leave me hanging
Don’t make me cry today

Once this was said, you smiled at me
You told me I was silly to ever think you’d leave
But I stared and I said you wouldn’t be first
To promise and smile then hurt and deceive

A frown settled your face
When I said this to you
As if it was a shock
As if it was brand new

That someone could lie like that to me
Then leave me battered, torn but not broken
The shock on your face was what I had needed
Something to show, proof, some little token

So I squeezed your hand
And got a response
You hugged me so hard
And I feigned nonchalance

But even so I shied away from you
Because one couldn’t be sure
Of what one would do
And this time I wasn’t sure that I could endure

You noticed my wince when I got the hug
You backed right up and looked hard at me
What had they done, what was this reaction
You wanted to know, you wanted to see

But instead of an answer that you so badly wanted
I sort of smiled a sad little grin
And backed away farther into my closet
But you grabbed my chin

You forced me to look straight into your eyes
You searched long and hard to see what you might find
I felt paralyzed by your stare; I tried to shake my head
So you couldn’t see my mind


But you saw anyway, without my consent
What I had, for so long, tried to hide
So it was then your turn to fill your eyes with tears
When you saw the scars I’d tried to push aside

You asked me what had happened
You wanted every woe
So I told you all my problems
Just so you would know

I clenched my eyes and hoped upon hope
That you wouldn’t laugh or even smile
I wanted you to like me anyways
I didn’t want you to be hostile

I’d had my share of problems
And I didn’t want anymore
I was sick of being strong
I was sick and I was sore

I wanted someone else, instead
To be there for me to lean on
I didn’t want to have to hide
I was tired of being withdrawn

I needed your shoulder and I needed your strength
I needed you so bad that I sure I would break
If you pushed me away or made me hurt
You could be my last mistake.

With that finality in mind
I looked up and you were gone
I sat up and looked around
Out my window it was dawn

I was not in a closet
I was in my bed
You hadn’t ever been there
My mind filled with dread (and I wasn’t even dead)

It was all a dream and you didn’t even exist
You weren’t but a life-like figment
Of my hopeful subconscious
And my pain it seemed to cement


That only you were the dream
Not my hurt, mask or pain
I felt the intense need to scream
But someone knocked upon the pane

I called out to let them in
They opened the door
And I opened a grin
The falsehood, I was learning to ignore

When they had left I slumped in my bed
Slowly I began to hit my head
Already this was a bad day, just for waking up

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