Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)

[vampiredust]

You are my metaphor,
a pill to be swallowed,
whole

 

[Liar]

Don Juan goes lifestyle coaching

remember, variety
satisfies more

think
outside
the box,

go back door

 

[clutching_calliope]

Lentils rest
on eyelids.

How does one
become holistic
anyway?

 

[lobomao]

>>> just got home from making jewlery with the exwife; this seems appropriate; my ten perfect words -

I love you
yes dear
I'm sorry
not without you

 

[clutching_calliope]

While Christmas,
Valentine pokes his
chubby ass around the corner.

 

[lindiana]

Not to be ignored,
the Easter Bunny twitches his ears.

 

[FifthFlower]

Consequences

He came inside to play.
Today, he wants to stay.

 

[vampiredust]

clocks freeze
as old men play chess

checkmate

 

[vampiredust]

salt
never tastes bitter
when mixed
with
pepper

 

[vampiredust]

mustard trees
melt away like morning
sunset

 

[FifthFlower]

Eager

He’s busy outside poking.
Her egg will get a soaking.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

The beauty
of soft candle light.
Power cuts
creation.

 

[FifthFlower]

The beauty
of soft candle light.
Power cuts
creation.

Cute avatar, sad-sounding name, sweet words. Quite erotic. Nice job. It all reminds me of Renee Zellweger's character in Nurse Betty.

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His lady spread before
Some man proved she's a whore.

 

[Tzara]

blackout

The beauty
of soft candle light.
Power cuts
creation.

my lack of power
is occasion

to track a flower

 

[Tzara]

and there was wine
and leather ice cream

and thin

 

[clutching_calliope]

i dreamt awake
and surfed the sky's
ink horizon
sideways.

 

[tungtied2u]

cries from the needy echo
lost in Chritmas crowds' clamor

 

[Angeline]

cries from the needy echo
lost in Chritmas crowds' clamor

want and need
hidden
behind cheer.
years pass.
no change.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

want and need
hidden
behind cheer.
years pass.
no change.

Do They Know?

Our contributions
welcomed but
the sound of
one hand clapping.

 

[vampiredust]

Erectile
sounds funny
when you think
of Baudelaire

 

[vampiredust]

She'd bitch-slap
hurricanes
if pissed

(Probably win,
too)

 

[EriAliSaa]

Bells ring
children laughing
hear them sing
my children dancing.

forgive my blatant paraphrasing

 

[RhymeFairy]

They call it PMS.
I call it
put-me down syndrome.

 

[Tzara]

I want her.
That's not ten words.

I want her.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Of all the bodies beautiful
the mind

the shapeliest
firmament.