Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[Remec]

my goodness kind sir! - lashes batting,
you've got me blushing

Just my luck,
to call a blush
I can't see.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Just my luck,
to call a blush
I can't see.

Just close your eyes
and
feel the red-hot
heat.

 

[Tzara]

Carolina pines
are yellow-green,
Washington pines blue.

I’m somber too.

 

[clutching_calliope]

.....

 

[Remec]

Just close your eyes
and
feel the red-hot
heat.

If I felt it
any more thoroughly,
I'd toast
marshmallows.

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

Flesh peels away
leaving only a scar
where once you were



1 word over - so sue me...

 

[cherries_on_snow]

New Stations for New Jersey

Hell is one radio station
all requests, all Billy Joel.

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

Alcohol burns
cauterizing wounds
carelessly inflicted
when you walked away

 

[Vampiric_Mirage]

I miss your scent
clinging to sheets
mussed from lovemaking

***

I miss your smile
shaming the stars
with it's brilliance

***

I miss what never was
you and I
possibly forever...

 

[RhymeFairy]

if it's important
speak. if not
don't dally
my digits

 

[darkecstacy]

Both of us silent
Reminising
About the future

 

[cherries_on_snow]

One person's important = another's trivia.
scroll down, don't gag.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Of Import

Why should laughter be less
important than seduction and tears?

 

[cherries_on_snow]

Son follows phosphorus
trail of father's
history, his
unconditional love.

 

[vampiredust]

buses trample over
tar anthills

tyres disfigured
by rain

Karma

 

[cherries_on_snow]

unstable

can't committ a month.
how bout 30 poems/ 1 day?

 

[HotKittySpank]

If I felt it
any more thoroughly,
I'd toast
marshmallows.

ooey, gooey, soft and chewy
roasted toasted on a stick...

 

[HotKittySpank]

Both of us silent
Reminising
About the future

(ahh - did you hear the NPR report about those tribal folks, shit- i don't remember where they were from? their word for future is 'back' or behind them because they cannot 'see' it yet and past is what is ahead, before them, because they have viewed it already... they are losing their language now and their unique ideas about time and space...)

That said:


what lies before me past
feeling backward toward my future


interesting concept, yes? : )

 

[HotKittySpank]

can't committ a month.
how bout 30 poems/ 1 day?

on your mark, get set, go!
cherries_on_snow - speeds
verbally away...

 

[Remec]

ooey, gooey, soft and chewy
roasted toasted on a stick...

Careful...hard to care
for burned lips
or scorched
tongue

 

[cherries_on_snow]

who needs lipstick?
skin naturally flushes
when it is hot.

 

[The Mutt]

I hear the thunder...

I want to feel the rain.

 

[Tzara]

Huis clos

Count to three
....deaf to thought,
then snare me
....underfoot.

 

[Tzara]

damp hair hung
like fresh semolina pasta

drying in air

 

[cherries_on_snow]

tabletop embrace sweeps
wineglass staining white
linen with cabernet sauvignon