Challenge 89 "Essence"

[super deluxe]

ESSENCE: n.

-The intrinsic or indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something.
-The most important ingredient; the crucial element.
-The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
-An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
-Such an extract in a solution of alcohol.
-A perfume or scent.
-One that has or shows an abundance of a quality as if highly concentrated: a neighbor who is the essence of hospitality.
-Something that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity.

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Entries submitted by WEDS. JUNE 15 @ Midnight.

DO IT.

[xKONRADx]

oooooohh.. sprinkles!

[SubtleDagger]

The First Against The Wall

Our angel of death triumphs
On metal wings today.

The land was bled of every last child.

So now we start anew
The history we refused
In favor of the good book,
Crutches and bleeding palms.
And we will sing the psalms
To the first against the wall
When the revolution comes
With the chambers of our guns.

Do you remember our hopes?
The essence of liberty?
My mother is dead,
Her descent drowned her pleas,
The streetlight traces her head.
All that's left now is my bleeding heart,
And my aching head full of impure thoughts--
Courted by the cold metal barrel,
Of course.

Do you think God speaks to you, demon?
God only speaks to those who will hear Him.

No ****.

[RunAmokRampant]

Subject to change...

Three-Lane

I've always maintained this passed down attitude,
for in order to slip away silently,
"Try not to indicate for more than five seconds,
Or else it makes you easy to follow".

I was told that one from my driving instructor
Such a paranoid view who believed in only,
his own mere conjecture

And do not slow down for the turtle,
coz remember the rabbit had a big ego,
Just a little snooze,
and look what happened.
So,

Put your foot down harder and dont forget.

Direction is sometimes hard to figure,
when your lost and the sun is gone,
Desperation leaves me to politely ask,
"Please point the finger to where I must follow"
The strangers reply happily but hoping,
answering with added favours I cannot risk.

A "Can I have a lift?" question is such a burden for me to bear
And so systematically to those who ask I will always reply,
"So sorry dude, but I'm just passing through".

It kind of reminds me of myself being one of those pragmatic survivalists,
"Find your own way for life's essence is for every man,
for himself"

Do you get the gist of things?
I certainly can grasp this concept.
Will you now change lanes and slow down to help a stricken stranger out?
I know I will.
But will you still choose to fly away till the gas tank runs empty?

Then tell me what will you do? Tell me.
Have a snooze like that stupid bloody rabbit?

[ATC]

My friend got himself a mellotron.



Letters To Love

There's always a higher ground
To climb to,
And run your fingers through the rain.
There's a silver sanctuary
If you look
Right past the center of your eye.

In a papercup
In a bodybag
You're anywhere you want to be.
In a broken heart
In an empty space
You're everywhere you're meant to be.

There's still some spaces left
Just for you to breathe
Forever, here and now.
If you distill these roads and open skies
To the essence,
You just might....

In a symphony
In a lover's heart
You're everywhere you want to be.
In cacophony
In a world so young
You're everywhere I want you to be.

Sihaya, don't you hurry.
All it takes is an act of will.
I will elevate you,child,
far from the guesses of hindsight.
I will elevate you
far above the masses in grey.

[toddcotham]

I doubt I have a song this time. I'm in the process of buying a new rig for my bass and it's stressing me out. But we'll see.

[super deluxe]

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[Necroses-bass]

This song is about what happens behind the scenes in Rio the Janeiro, I didn't want it to flow to represent chaos. (along with the 7/8 time signature but thats not relevant as this is about lyrics not music)

Rio de Janeiro.

Rio, the city of God
Carnival tonight. no-one will be sleeping
Everyone will go except for the children
They're hiding like rats in dark corners
when another party is about to start

Terciero Commando
Protect what is dear
the essence of fear puts them into
Hiding, behind a scope

With the finger on the trigger
One shot and their youth is killed

DEATH, DRUGS, POWER.

Like animals they rip and tear
the limbs of the prey but not for food
Death is not enough in the pavelas
Blood must boil. Skin must scorch

with their heads on display
one shot, another boy is killed

[Sepstrup]

...

[Bigbadbob]

與地球

A thousand nights of splendor
With only rags to warm these limbs
Sustaining on the mountains shadow
Growing thinner than the east borne wind
White bones, empty foot prints
Memories tend to fade
Sitting in the mountains splendor
Until only the mountain remains

Visitors are a rarity here at altitude
Last night I escorted the moonlight
Thru high valleys solitude
Nothing competes with heaven
So I’ll sit down here and smile
Soliloquy…
In the essence of the quiet

How is silence explained
How can the way be taught
Words are just a road map, pointing
To a conscience thought
Traversing streets and alleys
Direction becomes confused
A multitude of stimuli
Too intoxicating to refuse

Existing in a whirlwind
Of emotions and desires
A never ending cacophony
Lacking depth to inspire

[pixiesfanyo]

I found that essence rare.

[DFelon204409]

They're due on my birthday!!!!!!

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

Sounds like a word for the masses. Let's have everyone on MX enter this challenge.

[ITRIEDVOODOOONCE]

Confidence Moses, We Need You Again
Dear lord… RUN!!
This tide is closing in.
No longer my friend the sea has
lost its content.
Like such open arms these waves,
do they intend to crush or embrace?
It would be madness to attempt to try and part these waters again,
because last time the waters glimmered with the essence of a glorious sun.
This water uproots memories invalid as a source
I am no savior, just a vessel for the cause
Now these freight trains we call waves
crush the buildings we call home.
Do not call my name as if this is a repeat,
I am no help to you now.
Please don’t look at me like that, my tears will only feed this disaster.

[WhatILivefoR]

Sonnet

A tiny breath escapes fragile lungs of pure essence;
short breath to your own; mute but definite.
Gentle hands enfolding the exhale in silence;
they take your hand, constrain “I’ll take your word for it.”
Take not words, but innocence. Innocence.
Leaving ruby-eyed hands enfolding one phantom scream-
whose weight bruises darker than mascara blackened tears. Such abience.
Denial to response buys the decision for each;
but this nightmare of death is the only choice…
the word falls hard to the embrace of mass irony, with all his appeal.
protest for free will, but for what freedom do you vindicate?
The silent cry of the unborn claims a macabre voice;
through their silence, to the world, witnesses reveal
truth; that relief is not found in a death certificate.

[PainfulSweet]

Man this turned out to be a sappy song, but sorry, I'm leaving my girl for a few months and I cant get it off my mind haha, so here's my first ever shot at this!

Missing you -

Can hear the sound?
its my heart hitting onto the ground,
It falls once or twice each day,
only because I have gone so far away.
I miss the smell of the ocean air,
I miss seeing your long brown hair,

So when can I see you again?
When will I be able to hold you again?

But still as I rest,
on this stained hotel bed,
the essence of you still lingers within,
I hear your voice,
and taste your lips,
yet your so far away,
and this problem still exists,

I am missing you,
and I can still feel your touch,
It still hurts to think of you,
but I do it so much

Your beauty unfolds,
like a moonlit rose,
but I'm not there,
its you I cannot hold,
five hundred miles away from you,
but believe me when I say,
I'm still there with you,
and I'm always there to stay,
for you

[romanesque]

Away

Verse 1
the hour of fear is upon us,
your a shipwreck forever lost in troubled waters,
the words you speak in the quiet of your home when no one's listening,
are little escapes and everytime it happens morality takes over,

Verse 2
our difference is the essence of the problem,
i wanted to be right just once but,
you can't change your spots once your set in your ways,
and i thinks it's time to give in,

Chorus
everytime i try you tear me up,
and every letter i sign spilling my heart,
i can't fix what's not there anymore,
and you can't kill what was never alive,

Verse 3
does sugar hold the key will anything change,
will these seemingly hopeless trials of failure do anything for us,
still i've got a wish and a star,
and you've got the paper in that box upstairs,

Chorus
everytime i try you tear me up,
and every letter i sign spilling my heart,
i can't fix what's not there anymore,
and you can't kill what was never alive,

Bridge/Outro
you've got me on the edge of my seat again,
and at the expense of you i'll learn from my mistakes,
if all i said was wrong,
than i guess i'll fade away,
i guess i'll fade away,
i want to fade away,
i need to dissapear,
and never be okay,


really emo i guess
o well thats the end of it

[machinegunfunk]

i just whipped this up. not very cerebral, just trying to be a little cute. wrote the first stanza as a joke and took it from there

"Jenna Jameson is the Anti-Christ (But **** she's hot)"

The essence of beauty is truth
The essence of truth is beauty
And if George Washington never told a lie
He would love to be put into your booty.

The essence of our country is liberty,
Freedom and happiness,
And if we live Under God
Then we should all strive for cleanliness

Essentially the essence of this country,
Is the quintessence of hypocrisy
From the pulpits we trumpet our freedom and liberty
As long as our television has no nudity

For woe be the wicked
Who have hence been afflicted
By the profligacy
Of the unholy desire
To shelf one’s attire
In the interest of pornography

We love sex, and we love the truth
But to say so would be wholly uncouth
For nothing would be the bane of this country more
Than allowing nudity to poison our youth

Beauty pageants and All-American Girls
Beautiful blue eyes and golden blonde curls
Look but don’t touch, think but don’t feel
Above all else, purge the earth of sex appeal

For we love beautiful, we love the truthful
We lament the old in place of the youthful
But to say so is forbidden, to watch is ungodly
No man is allowed to take pleasure in another’s body.

[JaveryAM]

I find it rather amusing, in an odd way, that before i had even caught the slightest glimpse of the previous entries, i submitted a composition with nearly the same title as another ([Away])... odd... most definately.


Walk Away

Verse:
In her cloak, like a silhouette
She glides on the street and dodges passing cars
As concealing as she can be, she fades into the black

Her figure's lost among the shadows
And she travels on among the unpaved road
Trying desperately not to be noticed

The sirens mark the oncoming traffic
Those opposers who detest her, blind with fury
Encroaching, nearer, closer to her destination

Bridge:
On those streets, she has been for a while

Chorus:
Walk away
Like nothing ever happened
Believe you weren't there
Those events last night
Had never taken place

And you can leave guilt-free
It happened on its own
So why are you hiding?
Why are you running away?

Verse:
He tries again to plead for help
Left lost, to die upon a shelf
Crying, moaning towards the blood stained walls

Scream louder, still, and maybe they
Will hear his yells as they recieve
All the messages he screams in vain

She left him behind to live alone
And figured he'd find his way home
But he just lays there like a lame duck

Bridge:
And no one's coming there to rescue him

Chorus:
Walk away
Like nothing ever happened
Believe you weren't there
Those events last night
Had never taken place

And you can leave guilt-free
It happened on its own
So why are you hiding?
Why are you running away?

Interlude:
While he's suffering
She's walking away
While he's dying
She's ignoring him

As she survives
He's giving up all hope
While she's alive
He's laying down to die

The trail of her essence has descended upon his wounds
Those tiresome eyes have wandered so far from him
And she makes not attempt at turning back

Chorus:
Walk away
Like nothing ever happened
Believe you weren't there
Those events last night
Had never taken place

And you can leave guilt-free
It happened on its own
So why are you hiding?
Why are you running away?

Outro:
Walk away
Like nothing ever happened
Nothing ever happened
Why are you running away?

Walk away
Like nothing ever happened
Nothing ever happened
Why are you running away?

Why are you running

Away

[FACELESSnotBASSLESS]

Unafraid and exempted from tomorrow
The intangible gift of bliss cooked and laced with sorrow.

I’d love to free your heart with electromagnetic stains,
And bury it where no one knows, among Morella’s remains.

Feel the earth,
It’s vibrating with passion.
I stole your soul,
Now I’ll gladly take my lashings.
Now it’s quivering with pride,
I confessed you were my essence, but I lied…

Are you ashamed of the nights we used to have?
Would you rather break down and cry or stand up and laugh?

Conspire to abhor my body, but unfetter my mind,
It is formed of dilated pixels, now too far out of line.

Feel the earth,
It’s vibrating with passion.
I stole your soul,
Now I’ll gladly take my lashings.
Now it’s quivering with pride,
I confessed you were my essence, but I lied…

Do you feel like an exhibit yet?
Do you feel like you should fret?
Take a gasp of air, it’s coming. It’s true.