Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[sugarmountain]

she laughed as her forehead ran red
oblivious to blood.

blood rushed
faces flushed
tushies pushed
fluids gushed
voices hushed

 

[cherries_on_snow]

golden mouthed Os
round as cathedrals
crest her lips

 

[vampiredust]

moths burn
as lightbulbs explode

falling as
shooting stars

 

[cherries_on_snow]

It's not whisky but
he drinks her breath anyway.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

gumball electrons of us
pour light,
careen and collide, forever.

 

[vampiredust]

elephants carved out
of rotting wood

trample nothing
but pride

 

[cherries_on_snow]

lilacs in bloom

hours from twilight
lilacs in bloom
townspeople inhale
deeply, grateful.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

This bloom will not be fruit

Apple blossom plucked for pollen,
then poesy purfume.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Binds of Form

Wrap my ankles in pentameter; iamb my arms.

 

[vampiredust]

the air crackles
with your words

falling like rain

 

[RhymeFairy]

dry spells happen
everyday

taste
the rain
simply

savor it

 

[vampiredust]

a rattlesnake
slithers along
a dry valley

rain never falls

 

[cherries_on_snow]

kept

pictures show everything to anyone;
some words are just yours.

 

[vampiredust]

rain falls
on a field
of cows

grassblades
never grow

 

[vampiredust]

upside down
crates cause
revolutions

Chiquita weeps

 

[Tzara]

.....

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Not swords but roses laid at your feet

what harm
to be seen?
so mean
laid bare,
rare?

 

[cherries_on_snow]

why cloak
the body
before
it dies:
it won't arise.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

ink

my insecurity seeps
like ink
over your carpet

 

[cherries_on_snow]

deep

held breath
blocked off
slides deeper
swallow swollen
saltlick gasp

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Awe-blistered
hearts retreat
from throats,
your sweat on
my neck.

 

[vampiredust]

The carpet is still
wet from your dreams

Won't dry

 

[sugarmountain]

a heavy heart's rhythm
beats loudest in silence

 

[sugarmountain]

She is everything
I thought I'd never have
and I don't

 

[cherries_on_snow]