Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

Kicking back, getting
comfortable, releasing a
gearshift of my own

.....

 

[Senna Jawa]

a.m.

--

i am a.m. and so sleepy
​

Senna Jawa

 

[Guest]

Literotica is no cure
for insomnia
blow out the candle​

 

[lindiana]

Do I slip
on sleeping pills
and sweetly dream
of you?

 

[Senna Jawa]

Do I slip
on sleeping pills
and sweetly dream
of you?​

forget my name
and dream of me dreaming of you
​

 

[Remec]

.....

Quietly cracking knuckles
and flexing palms
in anticipation of
spinning.

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

Quietly cracking knuckles
and flexing palms
in anticipation of
spinning.

petroleum pumps
through my veins
you wanna be the flame?

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

Words cascade
collide
a cacophony of emotion
running wild
free...


~ ~ ~



Words on paper
igniting body and mind
setting us afire...

 

[Tzara]

Mazda car key
snicks open like switchblade.

Cuts through traffic?

 

[Remec]

petroleum pumps
through my veins
you wanna be the flame?

The fire's already
burning, I am a
fuel for love.

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

Mazda car key
snicks open like switchblade.

Cuts through traffic?

my god man, have you been sensible all your life?

 

[Tzara]

my god man, have you been sensible all your life?

Babe, I was born sensible.

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

The fire's already
burning, I am a
fuel for love.

WARNING!
high octane mix
produces greater speeds
with explosive properties

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

Babe, I was born sensible.

DAMN IT! that's not ten words,
bend over for spankings...

 

[lindiana]

DAMN IT! that's not ten words,
bend over for spankings...

Totally, now where'd I leave my whip?

Under your chair?

 

[Tzara]

DAMN IT! that's not ten words,
bend over for spankings...

Icingsugar said
ten words or shorter.

Shouldn't punishment
be reciprocal?

 

[Sex and Death]

WARNING!
high octane mix
produces greater speeds
with explosive properties

Stop. A head.
No shoulder.
Slow children
playing...no, swimming.

 

[Sex and Death]

Pavement narrows, lane ends,
slow merge, do not back in.

 

[Nostalgy_Prince]

Blood dripping
Slowly
From a dead heart.
Not mine, though

 

[clutching_calliope]

.....

 

[Nostalgy_Prince]

When did foggy Fridays nights
become so gosh darn gory?

When the moon rises
But here comes
A fairy

 

[clutching_calliope]

.....

 

[lindiana]

Lead me not to the river
I know the way

 

[hyulhyulhyul]

Can we find that perfect ten? A short line or two that says more than any brick sized novel on the bookshelf?

I once saw this written on the wall of a restroom stall in a highway rest stop and wrote it down:

If pigs could fly
If cows could sing
If this, if that, if everything
That I imagine
Were to be
I'd still imagine endlessly

I didn't think much of it as poetry, but it sure seemed to say a lot.

 

[Sex and Death]

Lead me not to the river
I know the way

Accept me graciously, Great River, and carry me home.