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Hi everyone! Here today with a poem I've written for this contest, fairly abstract from the theme and apologies if it seems to taper off towards the end (poems over 200 words are very hard to write!) I hope you enjoy, please do leave me some creative feedback or just your opinion on it in the comment section. <3
(also found here if the images fail to load! enjoy my godawful last minute rushed pixel "art" and bad graphics because I can't be bothered illustrator for the 657th time :))
(also found here if the images fail to load! enjoy my godawful last minute rushed pixel "art" and bad graphics because I can't be bothered illustrator for the 657th time :))
Explanation;
I wanted to pull a creative twist on the theme, from the details provided what really spoke to me at the moment was the perceptions we sometimes have over our lives, affected by whatever mindset we are in, when heartbreak happens, when you lose something, when things aren't going all that good in life or even just in your mind. We are always enabling ourselves to rule our own perception of ourselves and everything around us, and I think sometimes we let a negative perception wash over too readily even though everything isn't as bad as we see it to be - we lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that it's wrong, or bad, or that some things are true when they really aren't.
to me the idea of a story behind 'underwater ruins' really represents - in accordance to the above concepts, false perception, things of the past that keep us feeling like we're drowning. Like there's a lot of pressure and unsettled emotions, disturbances. I didn't want to write just about how there was something once positive built before and how it got wrecked by something and all that's left now is a pile of rubble, I wanted to write about the ruins we see when we let our head get the better of ourselves. A lot of personal references are included in the poem - some very vague, all very intentional and meaningful if you look enough. I really hope this idea is strong enough to relate to the theme directly and to not be disqualified due to it's abstractness.
Hope you're able to take something out of it and see my intentions, thank you for reading if you do!
to me the idea of a story behind 'underwater ruins' really represents - in accordance to the above concepts, false perception, things of the past that keep us feeling like we're drowning. Like there's a lot of pressure and unsettled emotions, disturbances. I didn't want to write just about how there was something once positive built before and how it got wrecked by something and all that's left now is a pile of rubble, I wanted to write about the ruins we see when we let our head get the better of ourselves. A lot of personal references are included in the poem - some very vague, all very intentional and meaningful if you look enough. I really hope this idea is strong enough to relate to the theme directly and to not be disqualified due to it's abstractness.
Hope you're able to take something out of it and see my intentions, thank you for reading if you do!
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under the masque of self-worth and integrity
into a thick mud
painted with entitlement
across a dotted line
the deeds of your fascinations
possessions to another
inclinations unbeknownst to you,
against the black skies
opposing truths of deflection
you find yourself with silkless ink
writing what you think it to be
beyond your skin
and the closer the pen drips
the tighter the bolts become
on the grips over your perception
a darker rainstorm
straining out
lifelessly. "
I'm gonna frame this somewhere I swear.