🏆 Writing Competition LIVE! -💰 $100prize

Writing Prompt

POEM STARTER

Write a poem that only involves dialogue.

Remember dialogue has to be between two or more people; it cannot be a monologue. Try to make it clear which voice is speaking when.

Writings

Never Alone

“You can’t go!”


“I have to.”


“What about me!?”


“I’m sorry, Saph.

I don’t have a choice.”


“You promised!”


“I know and I’m sorry!”


“I don’t think I can forgive you.”


“But I’ll come back!

I promise!”


“No.

You won’t.

You’re a promise breaker.”


“No I’m not.

Things happen that we can’t control.”


“You promised you’d never leave me.

No matter what.”


“Saphire.

You don’t understand.

They n...

Yeah Just Tired

(The _Italics_ are thoughts)

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah just tired”

_“No I’m in pain, I can’t shut off my brain.The world is spinning slong with my thoughts. I don’t know who I am. But i guess I’m just tired”_



“Are you ok?”

“Yeah just tired”

_“Tired of hiding and keeping secrets. Tired of the comments and the hatred. Tired of who I have to be. But I guess I’m just tired.”_



“Are you ok?”

“Yeah just t...

Holocaust

“Inferior

You should fear the world

You are in my shadow

You amount to nothing

You have no power

Useless

Worthless

You disgust me,

Cower,

At the drop of a hat

You will face your death

For Nazis are

The world superpower”


**_Years After the Holocaust_**__

__

__

“Why am I inferior?

Why do I cower?

I am worthless, I am nothing

Their words, they disgust me

But they stay in my head

Like a blockade I c...

Love Game

Love is just a game


What do you mean


People use your love to destroy you back


But it’s beautiful


How can you say such things


Love makes you have something to live for


Love can make you hurt


It can


Love can put us into sadness


But why do you think it’s a game


It’s something people use you for

How would you know to love


You would know when you love


I don’t think you can if so how ...

Therapy?

“I told you I wasn’t okay.”


“No, you didn’t.”


“I told you.”


“I told _you_ to go to therapy.”


“I feel weak when I do that.”


“Then deal with it.”


“I want to jump off a bridge sometimes.”


“Good.”...

Suffer

“Why am I so empty?”


“I… don’t know.”


“Me neither. Why does life do that?”


“Do what?”


“Give us problems and no solutions.”


“So we suffer.”...

Dialogue, O Dialogue

Dialogue, O dialogue. A poem full of dialogue.

It would be so easy if it was just a monologue.

But since I need to talk to you, it will be much harder

I suppose that I just need to stretch myself that much farther.


You’re a silly twit

Just embrace it.

Talking to me

Oughta be easy.

After all we chat.

Can you imagine that?

Every single day

Come what may.


It will still be difficult to write a con...

Goodbye

“What do you mean you can’t!”


“ I can’t stay”


“ why!”


“ I am not allowed to say”


“ then im sorry to say…!”


“No you can’t”


“I will, I am done!”


“ very well”


“ your not saying anything!”


“Why should I, when I know you won’t care”


“Goodbye!”


“ goodbye my heart”...

Fine

I told you I was not ok


I dont recall that


Oh so you say


Oh so I say


I told I was hurting


Oh did you now?


I did


Continue then


I told uou it was hard


It didnt seem that hard


You dont seem to care


I dont really


Well ok then congratulations on being a peice of shit


Ok now girl thats a little too far


Just shut up


Fine...

A Shadow One Cannot Outrun

**I just want this storm to cease,**

**To find a fleeting breath of peace.**

**Bad luck clings tight, it won’t let go,**

**A heavy weight that pulls me low.**


**What crime, what curse, what ancient sin**

**Brings endless trouble crashing in?**

**Each day a trial I can’t escape,**

**A nightmare wrapped in waking shape.**


**All I ask is one still day,**

**A quiet path, a smoother way.**

**One mome...