Poet Laureate Winner: Kortexia

[Paffnia]

After a week of voting, I am pleased to announce the winner of October 2017 Poet Laureate Contest: Kortexia! Here is his entry, Entry 1:


Everlasting

Ages come and ages go,
Billions of years I've felt time flow.
Crossing the stream of eternity,
Death has lost its hold on me.
Everyone I once knew has passed,
Forced from me they couldn't last.
Grinding worlds down to dust,
Having it all blow away in a gust.
Infinity itself is the curse I bear,
Just me alone with none to share.
Killing time takes on a new meaning,
Longing for an end fills my dreaming.
My life unable to end by fasting,
Name me this, Everlasting.


Congrats Kortexia! Thank you as well to Aersoldorf (Entry 2) and Alkasia (Entry 3)!

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The Poet Laureate contest will be back in January, so keep up the creativity, Islanders!

[Aersoldorf]

Awesome poem Kort, I knew that I was in trouble when I read your entry. It's about Hakke isn't it?

[United Royal Islands]

Excellent work Kortexia

[Louisistan]

Kort, this is beautiful! I didn't know you were a poet! Congrats, mate!

[Kortexia]

I beat Aersoldorf, the Grandmaster Poet!

Thank you to everyone who wrote a piece and/or voted in this competition.
I am so proud to have shared my poetry with you all!
Truth be told, I almost missed the entry for the contest.
Thankfully I found out with 20 minutes to spare.

[Alkasia]

Outstanding work, Mr. Laureate.

[Aersoldorf]

Is it about Hakke?

[thepeninsular]

Congratulations Kortexia!

[Kortexia]

No Aerso, I didn't write it about Hakke

[Aersoldorf]

Oct 21, 2017 17:28:16 GMT -5 Kortexia said:

No Aerso, I didn't write it about Hakke

But if you read it again now, can you see the similarities?

[Nate NBNS]

existential angst at it's finest   really superior verse Kort   Laureate indeed

[Neutrality United]

Congratulations Kortexia, that was a well done piece!

[New Minerve]

Awww congratulations it was a really great poem friend, but Don't get comfy I fully intend I taking your hard won title in a few months.

[thepeninsular]

I guess the guy on your profile pic is rather keen on doing so, New Minerve!

[New Minerve]

Oct 22, 2017 11:53:53 GMT -5 thepeninsular said:

I guess the guy on your profile pic is rather keen on doing so, New Minerve!

Yeah I would have participated in this none but couldn't do it...the stars..... not today.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Congratulations to you all, and specially to Kortexia! What a great poem!

[Baden-Wuerttemberg]

I like it!

Could also work well set to music as a song text.