Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[RhymeFairy]

eraser marks
left
beside
the disappearance
of my invisible
soul ~

 

[vampiredust]

I'm Horny, Right?

wax dragons melt
over your body

night shivers

 

[RhymeFairy]

wax dragons melt
over your body

night shivers

melting
into your shiver
as dragon nights
throbbingly
horn in ...

 

[vampiredust]

her cigarette smile
cracks streetlamps'
fuzzy halo

 

[clutching_calliope]

.....

 

[vampiredust]

bleached azure sky
combs its hair
for the coming storm

 

[The_Fool]

Decadent wisdom
offered in licks
on permanent static display

 

[vampiredust]

Watching The Surfers In Cornwall, 1985

aquatic mountaineers
climb its highest peak

before falling, breathless.

 

[RhymeFairy]

lashes curl around
like octo awaiting
the pluck

~~~~

I have researched and just cannot find the plural. I thought it was octi ... closes I can get is octo .. makes sense, but I thought I was right, grrr. I so want to put octi ~ If anyone finds, please stand me corrected ~
I also realize it is eight and not ten ... I will work on it I guess, no biggie ~

 

[MsBug]

ocean mist
refreshes body and spirit
my source of joy

 

[RhymeFairy]

lashes curl around
like octo awaiting
the pluck

~~~~

I have researched and just cannot find the plural. I thought it was octi ... closes I can get is octo .. makes sense, but I thought I was right, grrr. I so want to put octi ~ If anyone finds, please stand me corrected ~
I also realize it is eight and not ten ... I will work on it I guess, no biggie ~

Octopi ... as a dear friend has been so kind to email me.
Just in case anyone else was curious ... ~

edited version ~~~

lashes curl around
like octopi awaiting
the pluck

 

[MsBug]

No sleep for the wicked,
must be true
tonight
anyway.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

the sweet marsh thrums,
the night air lush like plums.

 

[vampiredust]

To A Disciplinarian I Once Knew

bed never groans

no maam,
never does

 

[vampiredust]

sun swims
in puddle

but i can't
catch it

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Stepmother's dressing room

Her blinding white bra
and the smell of hot rollers

 

[vampiredust]

physicists play tic-tac-toe
with atoms

mushroom clouds hatch

 

[vampiredust]

A Genovese Scene

cats wrestle
with shadows on balcony

nobody watches them fall

 

[cherries_on_snow]

liberation:
all paths are clear
all walks are safe.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Sex:
many paths, some dead
ends. define safe.

 

[vampiredust]

bed was too small
for me to climb
this mountain

 

[vampiredust]

They Don't Teach You This In School

mechanical pleasure pulsates
as she reads Jane Eyre

...Mr Rochester

...

 

[vampiredust]

paper flowers burn
like fireflies

air crackles
with pleasure

 

[vampiredust]

My Little Sister's First Photo

she is photographed
but never smiles

not even to me

 

[cherries_on_snow]

between classes
i furtively
smell her on my fingers.