5 poems have been nominated for this month's poetry contest. Please place your votes on the poems you like best, and good luck to the nomanees :D

1.The Squirrel & The Holy Nut

The Saber-Toothed squirrel
Was charmed by the beauty
Of a little acorn nut
He chased it with quarrel
From high cliffs to frozen sea
And yet have saved it not
Splendor it was in his eyes
With marvel he used to see
A dream of heavenly hunt
In heaps of pinky clouds
Where nuts do grow like roses
The vision of golden gate
The house of The Holy Nut
He touched the holy door
And saw the Mighty Nut
The beauty was more than charm
It was stretch of arm
As soon his soul will leave
But sadly not all you want
With will you can achieve
He deadly came to life
And badly went to flame
That dump who saved his life
From numb he set him free
It is true he pulled him back
But not to what he need
You try to have in life
In heaven you get indeed!

-by Haroundb


2.Dreams

As I Get Swallowed By The Vortex Of Dreams.
I Shred Into Invincible Pieces Of Fears.
Unaided Is What Always I Was, I Cry Blood Not Tears.
Seldom Do I Recall Being Alive, Am Walking By Gears.
Heterogeneousness Thoughts, Miserable Memories.
Its Tearing Me Apart, Illusions Of Happy Harmonies.
Night Falls And It’s The Same, Making Me Hate Breathing Again.
Could I Escape? Could I Not? When Am I Going To Terminate This Pain?
Nothing Is What I Want, Apprentice Walks And Get Slain.
The Vision Is Endless, And I See No Light At The End, Nothing To Gain.
Sparrow Flying To Twilight, And I Lost The Will To Break These Chains.
Dreams Are Wolfs Whispering For Hunger.
Stuck Helplessly, With No Way Out, Down On My Knees.
Dreams Of Her, Her Smile Breaks The Dark, Be Mine I Beg You Please.
But Beasts Are Cursed, My Ambition Can’t Go Further, Can’t Breath.
I Pray To Die, So I Can Rest In Peace, Ease This Throne.
Unpleasant Furious Spirit, I Lost My Way Back Home.
My Fate Is The Criminal To Kill, My Heart Became Stone.
The Question That Has No Answers, When Comes Dawn.

-by Conjugater


3.The Artist of my soul

A painter slowly airbrushing my divine universe,
A musician stringing along the strings of my harmony,
A dancer swaying along the beat of my passion,

The Artist of my soul lives within me,
Transforming my world,
Into a sparkly blue jewel with fuzzy clouds,

Where the soft snuggle wind embraces me,
Slowly tugging at my hair,
Where the world envelops my depression in fresh greenery,
And the oceans washes away my pain,

Hand in hand with the artist of my soul,
I arise,
Newly born and carefree,
In the novel of my dreams.

-by Monkiette


4.Missing Home

Was tossed along that jungle trail

There was nothing there, just thorns and nails

Had no skin, no fur to wear

But I straggled through the storm

In a search to find my home

Now I climbed the mountain, and I pleaded with the sky

There was no one around, just some dark clouds in reply

But I offered some berries and a tear in my eye

Cause I was on my own

So far away from home.... home

There's a fire burning inside me

Makes the lame walk and the blind to see

Here I am wandering on what I should be

The old earth, the moon, the sun

Some wings to rise the dawn

Now time's tickin' like a melancholy friend

Ticks the beginning and the middle and the end

But if I close my eyes and just pretend

There's shelter in this song

Like a river flowin' home... home

-by Charm


5.Silent Night

A silent Night through my whispers
I can see some dust over my windows
Viewing through it trying to stare now
at the stars fallen like my heart did now
Hidden answers of questions am searching for
Behind the screens of the Night dark like some souls are
Am still searching for answers for my hidden wonders
In the middle of the Night its all under!
Bursted Whispers is all what I hear Now
Trying to tell me its secrets its about me now
Hugging my soul high telling me to forget
And tomorrow shall come with its light bright
When tomorrow came birds started to sing
and Butterflies stared hugging the flowers
Imagine now with me the screen
Put it all on ur bigger screen!
When the shine of tomorrow come 2 me
Showing the way for the lost love towards me
Tomorrow will carry a smile to me
Since my smile all lost in the past
Now my smile is turning into a frown
Now my memories are running behind me
Hunted trying to get me down
Lost trying to make me lose
I stand high trying to love all
I stand wise trying not to waste ma time all
I know that today or tomorrow I shall become me again
Today or tomorrow I will find my heart again
All the dust on my windows will get cleaned soon!
with the water of my soul mixed with the flowers of my love!
Tomorrow will come as well now is today
BUt yesterday is behind and like that shall it remain!

-by Thug4life

Voting round's until the 28th.
Good Luck :cute:

I voted for the artist of my soul... although the rest were brilliant... that one caught my attention

And Why The Hell Your Poem Isn't Participated ?
Mine Goes To Mon's, Though I Was Confused Between It And Thug's.
Goodluck Everyone :).

Thought the rest are fine, still I got the image of the "Missing Home" by Charm. I can see:

Was tossed along that jungle trail

There was nothing there, just thorns and nails

Had no skin, no fur to wear
Yes crouching bare naked under the sharp thorn, each cutting a line of pain in the memory....nice I like this part a lot.

But I straggled through the storm

In a search to find my home

Now I climbed the mountain, and I pleaded with the sky

There was no one around, just some dark clouds in reply

But I offered some berries and a tear in my eye

Great amalgamation with nature. See how he pleaded with the sky begged for mercy, but sometimes the mighty will and of nature is going with its force just opposite to our will and can grew more stubborn squeezing our spirits more and more. The image goes much more tense by when he bleeds with eyes of tears ... It is getting tighter and tighter, giving the last drops of tears as the last hope!

Cause I was on my own

So far away from home.... home

There's a fire burning inside me

Makes the lame walk and the blind to see
describing the home sickness and the burning passion for the warmth of home is a great theme, but making the "lame walk and the blind see" doesn't really sound in place for me.

Here I am wandering on what I should be

The old earth, the moon, the sun

Some wings to rise the dawn

Now time's tickin' like a melancholy friend
Again time ticking like a melancholy friend is not really fitting in here. I think having the word friend here is little odd somehow to the simulation??

Ticks the beginning and the middle and the end

But if I close my eyes and just pretend

There's shelter in this song

Like a river flowin' home... home
nice but unfinished still early on the idea as the idea didn't develop yet. Very hasty to close it up and sure the line "like a river flowin' home" is not really in tone and there a sense as if it is just "put" into the text.

Alla in all good work and refine your structure and have more obvious sequence and you will get a more balanced structure by keeping a coherence in your ideas.

Good work everyone, really nice input but I just commented on what I voted for. Good luck everyone!

It seems like no poems were submitted this month but taken from the the poems section.
I wanted to partcipate this month.
But whatever.

since the poetry competition started receiving a low number of submissions we decided to nominate poems in the arts sabla...
that way those who always post poems may be rewarded and is always a pleasant surprise...
a number of 5 were nominated... next month others inshalla.
No worries FE... you may be lucky in the coming months ;)

even though i dont know that poem "the squirrel an dthe holy nut"...i will vote for that one coz i loooove squirrels!

My vote goes to Conjugater " Dreams "

Very well expressed and great choice of words .

As I Get Swallowed By The Vortex Of Dreams.
I Shred Into Invincible Pieces Of Fears.
Fantastic imagination of anyone who is about to sleep and feels that his is swallowed within him/herself . And you have described the most horror and unexplained visions in the dream that are so scary and yet not explainable, A Horror dream makes your body and soul ache. I loved these lines :)..

Another great lines :-

The Vision Is Endless, And I See No Light At The End, Nothing To Gain.
Sparrow Flying To Twilight, And I Lost The Will To Break These Chains.

Most of our fears are translated in our dreams ... amazing !


Unpleasant Furious Spirit, I Lost My Way Back Home.
My Fate Is The Criminal To Kill, My Heart Became Stone.
The Question That Has No Answers, When Comes Dawn
Perfectly said and ended :)


As for the rest of poems all are very good but I tend to like the one above more :)

Nice poems. Voted for "The Artist Of My Soul" =)

"The Artist of My Soul" by Monkiette. Love her poetry.

Read them all
Good imagination! :cute: and wonderfully expressed
was hard to choose..

voted for 'Dreams'

last day for votinggg...

Just for the record... I'll post the threads we nominated the poems from:

The Artist Of My Soul (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?p=808939#post808939) -by monkiette

Dreams (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?p=805660#post805660)-by Conjugater

The Squirrel and The Holy Nut (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38968&page=2) -by Haroundb

Missing Home (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42434) -by Charm

Silent Night (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showpost.php?p=755472&postcount=286) -by Thug4life

good job to all... I'll give a few hours for voting before announcing the winner. May the best win.

umm, i kept thinking about this the past few days..but i made up my mind..Dreams :cute:

Oo...a tie :hmm:... ... curious...lol