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Artist's Name: Liz
Artist's Elftown User Name: [flaed]
Poem Category: Humor
Poem's Title: The Drunken Wanderer
Poem:
There was, within a tavern grand,
What seemed to be a different land,
Contained inside a flask of sand.

Yet slowly, sharply spoke a voice,
“I give to thee a single choice,
Hand me the keys to your Rolls Royce,
Or sober up most speedily.”

“One more!” cried he, most needily,
While staring rather greedily
At one gigantic, gleaming glass.

A barmaid to him then did pass
A shot that surely would surpass
All his drinking limitations,
(Which then brought great frustrations,
And various complications
To the schedules of his friends,
Who left him then to his own ends).

Careless then to make amends
With genie or with all mankind,
So back within his world did find,
A sottish, simple state of mind.

Then suddenly a savage storm
Within his mind began to form,
And there the daylight did transform
To blackness bleak and darkness deep.
He, shortly after, fell asleep,
Upon the table, in a heap.

His drunken snoring will be heard
Until he wakes with vision blurred.

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Artist's Name: Jeff Webster
Artist's Elftown User Name: [wildCARD]
Poem Category: Realistic (Not the fantastic, no-way-that-could-happen realistic, actually realistic)
Poem's Title: Self-Destruct
Poem:

I looked out my window into the crowds and thought
It's been so long since I've seen a free mind
In fact, the action around here has been so still
I'm starting to think they're an endangered kind.

We're on our way to oblivion, the ship our planet Earth
We set our sights and our course is set straight
In true human spirit, let one fend for oneself
Fold up our maps, let the machines navigate.

Simply none but the best are under cardiac arrest
Heads are being bowed and knees are being bent
50 light years down, infinite number more to go,
Pride is being broken and money's being spent

It's time to self-destruct, humanity is out of luck
We've sowed for all our lives, now it's time to reap the crop
It had to happen sometime, goodbye family and friends
Four. Three. Two. One.
Stop.

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Artist's Name: Kirstin
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Starling87]
Poem Category: Fantasy
Poem's Title: Darkned World
Poem:

Fearies are hiding under the bridge
For the evil rain
A unicorn cries because it feels hollow inside
As the dusk puts an end to the day
Some dragons quickly return to their caves
Restless, unable to sleep
The trolls watch the stars, carefully, ready to raise alarm
Now the void is silencing everyone who can speak
Griffins are soaring throughout the black sky
Not recognizing the moon's soft light
All the mermaids have come out from under the water, and pray for a wonder
To safely return the sun's pride
But as their heartbeats are tangled together in fear
The cold darkness consuming their sight
They do not know danger isn't lurking near
Against this nothingness they don't have to fight
And as the stars sparkle like rubies
Their understanding for this clouding shadow does not dim
The harsh wind makes them shiver, as they hold their breaths and listen
Not knowing it's the Night's first visit they find themselves in…

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Artist's Name: Robin Race
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Raerlas]
Poem Category: Nature
Poem's Title: Newly Born
Poem:

As I sit her under the cerulean skies, I can see the many marvelous lives
Everything is a beauteous creature, No matter plant or mammal.

I can see the willow tree, with long sweeping branches
Touching the emerald pond, and sapphire sky.

The eagle soaring, golden body and white head
Amber eyes searching boldly, for prey below.

Every day is a miracle, new life born
The baby akwardlly beautiful, wobbly standing.

I can see him, trying to nurse from his black mother
Who is proudly standing, with her ebony foal.

This is what I call Nature, with all living creatures
It is harmony I say, to see new life born this day.

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Artist's Name:Jess
Artist's Elftown User Name:[Nere]
Poem Category: To Make You Think...
Poem's Title:Trends
Poem:

In the darkness we never tell a lie
The truth revealed you cannot deny
For in the shadows where you cry
All happiness will surely die.


Where your hollowed heart is fed
With what your hollow mind has read
By tainted minds you have been led
Believing every word we've said


But be assured the dawn will break
And the night you shall forsake
In the light we shall remake
A brand new path for you to take


For your life is but a dream
We make of it whatever we deem
It is we who reign supreme
And are held in high esteem

It is we who tell you what to buy
And tell you when to show more thigh
Convince you it's good to be getting high
It is we that led you so badly awry


It is we who make the rules today
And give you fab new words to say
It is we you hollow minds obey
And upon you fools that we prey


Yes, the dark you must forsake
Lest our lies you do unmake
And our careful plans you break
And finally see your greatest mistake

This life you lead is just a fake.

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