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Artist's Name:Jessi O'Connor
Artist's Elftown User Name:[Karisla Sorium]
Poem Category: To Make You Think...
Poem's Title:Pretender
Poem:

I walk within a dream
Gold dust and glitter settle at my feet
Yet I feel lost
I am a pretender
An actor
But you don't know I go home and cry myself to sleep
You don't know my laughter's just a pose
Yet with all of you I do feel happy
For we walk along a path without stones to make us fall
conflict doesn't exsist
It is pretend, a made-up word
But at home it is truly real
It truly happens
And out my tears flow
Down my cheeks
Showering me
Salty tears coat the ivory keys
Playing sweet melodies
Cascading over me and beyond
Soothing me, rocking, a babe in a soft clothe
Rocking, rocking into a sweet abyss
Of soft baby dreams of teddy bears
Mummy and Daddy,
Standing over me, a protective glowing shield
But I have broken that
Charging past that golden shell
Wanting, Willing myself to grow
Now I must fend for myself
Must recognize and accept
Mumsy and Daddy are like me
Making mistakes and causing some of the conflicts that make me cry
The ones you don't know about
Because with all of you
I am a pretender
An actor
There to comfort
You
And your sorrows
I am a pretender
An actor

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Artist's Name: Greg
Artist's Elftown User Name: [sweetblasphemy]
Poem Category: Dark
Poem's Title: A portrait of Insanity
Poem:

the burning taste of stale love
hangs in the chasm of my throat
clinging to the sticky sweetness of my gullet
like snow to spring's first spark of life
the ringing in my ears
of shores lost underneath the waves
and sands of far-off lands that wept
for lack of better times wasted
and the rotten fumes of memory
the highest stars do burn tonight
in spite of me, in vain
the hottest fires of passion
are drowned in a cool sea of despair

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Artist's Name:Bia
Artist's Elftown User Name:[adnihilo]
Poem Category: Sad
Poem's Title: Source of Dolor
Poem:

The girl sat all alone
With nothing but to hone
The emptiness inside
And naught to bide
But her time until
The loneliness began to fill
And overflow too far
And soon passed the par
And infected everyone around
Her dolor unbound
She didn't mean to hurt them
But she had to condemn
The ignorance they held
And her dolor she did meld
Until they knew what it was
To be her

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Artist's Name: Talon
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Tal Anduril]
Poem Category: Realistic
Poem's Title: Darkness and Light
Poem:

Darkness enshrouding, surrounding, filling me - body and soul.
Pain blinds and drives me with the terrible need;
to cause them the agony that one unleashed upon me.
Lost in the depths of sorrow, the unknown.
I can no longer tell who is a friend and who is a foe.

Who am I? Who do you wish me to be?
The brother, the friend; ... the betrayer the fiend.

Tell them nothing; let them believe as they will.
They are names: without life, without creed,
merely shadows in the night; that is destroying me.
Through hints and half truths they have forged my life
It was they who spun the fiction of my lies.

Who am I? Who do you wish me to be?
The brother, the friend; ... the betrayer the fiend.

Words without substance; building, breaking - moving, shaping.
Breathing life into a once dead creation.

I stand amidst the light and see
that the shadow cast upon the ground
- is none other than me.
I stand amidst the light; it washes over me,
shouting for all to hear: BETRAYER and FIEND.

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Artist's Name: Orey
Artist's Elftown User Name: [Orey]
Poem Category: To make you think
Poem's Title: Falling Away
Poem:

I was on my way
When I heard a voice far off
It was so very hard for me to tell you
But my life is falling away
I am falling apart
I love to hate you
Say my mind is so hard for you to understand
Why is it so unfair for me to feel
To feel anything at all
I guess you want me to be surreal
Everytime I wakeup...
But it seems my hate is my love
I guess we all have a little freaky in us
This passion bunny that is disorderly
That seems to hold all of our hate
So Doc give us more pills
Just so we can see him more
You don't understand
He is in our skin
He's in our blood
Tonight I'll pull the trigger
Now go home
Tell your parents everything is alright
Cause the sky has opened up
And I'm falling away
Just tell the cops
The bunny made me do it
He made me go back
And let it all fall away

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