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Topic
#5711
Poem Battle: You choose the topic, You choose the side, then we write poem, battle to see which poem wins
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Winner & statistics
After 1 vote and with 1 point ahead, the winner is...
iamanabanana
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- Last updated date
- Type
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- Number of rounds
- 1
- Time for argument
- Two weeks
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
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Description
Please state topic in comments.
Round 1
Animal rights
Why do I eat
Why am I hungry
I dont want to consume meat
I dont want to consume death
The suffering that spread
The suffering now everywhere
The lives lived in dread
The lives that lead nowhere
Animals are like us
Animals are not us
Do we need to destroy
All that is not us
Do they not suffer, do they not feel
The wounds we give them are real
The suffering in endless factory of food
The suffering we say for them is good
When we feel pain, we want it to go away
When they feel pain, we justify it to stay
We gave ourselves the title of executioner
We are their judge, jury and executioner
We decide which animals are happy and free
We decide which animals are beaten, hunted and eaten
How can a fair world exist here
How can only one decide then
What if roles between us were reversed
What if we were the ones who were used
While others decided our faith
While others locked our gates
If our purpose is to torment all others
Then we are a mistake of our fathers
If our species follow a devouring crave
Then we belong in a devouring grave
The purpose for us is to improve all
The purpose is not to make others fall
To rise together, towards happy place
To do anything else would be a disgrace
Our existence can be as great as Sun
Which benefits all and everyone
Which uses its energy to help life
Such way of action is divine strife
Our light can shine to benefit those who are not us
Our light can burn and destroy those who are not us
We were given the light and we can use it as we please
We were made into Gods and into world we were released
I cannot think of an animal as someone
While thinking of myself as no one
I cannot think of an animal as no one
While thinking of myself as someone
The more common I have with an animal
The more I become an animal
The more common animal has with me
The more the animal becomes me
With neither being anyone's master
We can go to our free lives faster
And no one's life will be a disaster
Because I am not anyone's master
Red Noise
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
it’s said.
That is well and good when the world
is filled with nothing but beauty, when
all the eye can see is a thing, a soul,
an animal that man has grown to love.
But this is not our world, it has never been.
Although in the centre of our retinae is one
animal, sheltered, cared for, loved, at the
periphery of our vision lay the others, squealing,
bloodied, ripped apart and uncared for.
We stare ahead still, pretending not to see;
but we do, because the blood gets far
it splashes on our hands, it splashes in
our field of view; yes, yes, we see,
we do see it rather well, yet we’re
good at blocking it out, as there is
so much of it that it is now nothing
but red noise so easy to ignore.
Thanks.
Very good job, I loved it!
No rush!
That sounds interesting. I should have a poem ready in a day or two. Not sure which side to take.
Topic: Animal treatment. Poems should focus on animal treatment inequality, IE why we treat some as pets, and others as nuisances or food. As for side, I don't care what side you take on it, you can justify it if you want, or you can be adverse to it, or even explain why we do it, etc. Whatever floats your boat. Should be fun, best of luck to you Best.Korea!
I am not sure how many people on this site are poets. Even rap battle guys have left.
If anyone actually does accept this, I’ll be eager to watch it.
Are you by any chance still on this site? I dont know who else can write poems here.