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UPDATE: The winners of this writing challenge are WayneLeon and atomiccolm! Congratulations to you both! You have each won 50 W-N points and a one month PRO upgrade. Enjoy and keep on writing


This has proved to be the most difficult challenge to judge so far. The phrase "This pain has never left me" sparked a rainbow of creativity and emotion which only made it harder to select the finalists. Having said that, we decided to post a long-list of the 10 semi-finalists as well as 4 honorable mentions. The 5 finalists are listed below these lists - VOTING HAS ENDED

The Long-List
Alfredo
Anniepimm
atomiccolm
ClayEnos
dark_angel_428
justcallmecool
Tah-Dah
justi
Saintz
WayneLeon

Honorable Mentions
Will
SeethingSong
Lanky-bastad
davidjshock


The Finalists:

Anniepimm
WHY?
Did you take him and not me?,
What sort of God are you?,
Just a little boy, barely two years old,
What had he done! that he was deprived of his life,

It should of been me! "not him",
I am the one that is to blame,
The mistake is my evil guilt,
It was me that drove in the rain,

Just an innocent child "he had no sins",
He had barely impacted upon this life,
Now this pain has never left me,
I was the one driving that night.



atomiccolm
This pain has never left me,
From the time you went away,
You told me you were coming back,
So in this spot I stay.

You never came to find me,
You never brought me home,
In the garden where you took me,
I sit like a static gnome,

I wish you'd come to get me,
I want to leave this place,
I sit and wait, still so irate,
Still searching for your face.

So please, please come and get me,
Take me away from here
Come back fulfill your promise dad for I still hold you dear!



justi
How can i understand it?
How can i just move on,
with this anger that I'm feeling,
now that you are gone?

This pain has never left me,
it will never go away.
Knowing that your gone,
and that i have to stay.

I feel my heart, its aching,
my tears remain to flow.

The one i loved the most in life,
just had to up and go.           



Saintz
It was all ok
Till you walked away
Tears fell from my eyes
Pain ran wild

This pain has never left me
Slowly draining my soul
A husk of what I was
Empty and out of love

You walked away
I looked away
And all I could say was
Ok



WayneLeon
This pain has never left me.  It is always by my side
I sit and sigh and wonder why, the pain I feel inside
is not just a physical entity, but attacks my very mind
The memories I carry of you, are of such a loving kind.

Memories of the past for me, torment my very soul
Burying my head within my hands I don't see a future goal
My life here now has ended, now you've passed away
I'm in suspended animation every second of every day
Life holds nothing for me now, and this to me is true

For my life ended suddenly
the night that I lost you...


Please VOTE for your favorite to help determine the winner. If your poem did not make the cut this time, don't worry, we have plenty more challenges... Try our 5th writing challenge here:
http://www.writers-network.com/forum/community-activities/writing-challenge-05/

 

[Dark_Death]

congrats!

[BoO-333]

congrats to the finalist... :clap:

[support]

- just bumping this to the top -

[darkangel1989]

well done!! They were all extremely good I think we can spot the ones with real talent though  :clap: :clap: :clap:

But well done!! For the hard work you guys put into your poems.  :clap: :clap: :clap:

[Dark_Death]

lol blunt, are we?

[SeethingSong]

Haha, I have an honorable mention and I forgot what I wrote

[Dark_Death]

wow.... that is hilarious!

[atomiccolm]

When does the voting finish for this contest?

[lilly]

I liked every writing but loved the atomiccolm. any how congrates to the finalists

[justcallmecool]

It's kind of annoying how long this whole process takes. I entered the 5th challenge in mid october and voting hasn't even started for it.

[atomiccolm]

i agree it takes far too long,, kind of takes the fun out of it :-X

[dmonkey7]

Where do these challenges come from?  And if anything the writers of these poems shouldn't be writing for this contest but for themselves. It seems more natural if writers just write and if a contest comes around that fits the piece then writing a piece for the contest.

[atomiccolm]

Where do these challenges come from?  And if anything the writers of these poems shouldn't be writing for this contest but for themselves. It seems more natural if writers just write and if a contest comes around that fits the piece then writing a piece for the contest.


You might want to take the time to read the forum posts and general features of the site before you make such comments. Of course our writing is for ourselves and others to enjoy. But the administration like to encourage CREATIVITY by posting bi-monthly challenges.. There is no great competitive atmosphere, we are given a topic or a line and we must make a poem from it. It is simply for enjoyment and to allow the community to share their poetic ability on a similar topic or to improve our writing by getting us to write about topics that may be outside of our normal comfort zone. Nobody needs to enter them, you have a free choice!!!!