SPU POETRY CONTEST #1: Reversed Lips
What do lips set in reverse hold?
Hiding emotions, hiding truth
Laughter has been a medicine for the insane
Remedy for deceit
Those teeth so white and pale
Shining dimly with no joy
Bringing sadness like gale
What is the aim of this ploy?
In the old world, corpses too did laughed
Having no teeth
Hanging those fangs
Their laughters,
Yes their laughters were haunted
Like echoes in sahara in the ears of a camel.
Why then do laughter hide so much in disguise?
Why then would sadness not raise its ugly head alone?
Must an infant always be decieved?
Of pain embroidered by smiles?
Must only the skies cry?
When its been hurt?
Inspired by https://steemit.com/poetry/@warpedpoetic/photography-and-poetry
I loved the idea of pain embroidered by smiles. Guarded emotions have their purpose and can often times be rather soothing. The sad part is finding a way to relay that situation to the world. Nice write.
Yes. They have their purpose and I think poetry is a good way of relating it to the world.
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Entry Received!!
Thank you for the contest
Good job on this poem. There is a lot of thought behind this, that makes the reader think. "pain embroidered by smiles" was a clever line!
Thank you for participating in our contest :)
Thank you.
Thank you for the contest too, it has in a way wrote our voices on paper.