Line by Line Challenge - November 3 line poemss

[29wordsforsnow]

maw

Mid-autumn, season of nuts falling.
Am I still counting those I found empty or wormed?
Who knew climate would change this way?

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Doesn't he know from his German roots the clenched fist
symbol of German Communists fighting the German National Socialists,
nazis, usually called, that screamed and called for "Total War" close to the end? Their End.

 

[Piscator]

Ruin (2x3)

One end in ruin
another beginning
so it goes.

But this time
I fear that
it ends.

 

[butters]

cattle and land don't vote
a lot of empty red
but such pretty shades of blue

 

[todski28]

So many questions....
turn on the pilot light and
prepare for the lies

 

[Angeline]

Misinformed

This wanted to be
an American Sentence,
but goddamn line breaks.

 

[todski28]

Misinformed

This wanted to be
an American Sentence,
but goddamn line breaks.

Hit the right notes for me

 

[Angeline]

Hit the right notes for me

I couldn't resist.
I can't stop thinking in threes.
I'll try fours in December!

 

[Tzara]

Sedōka

1.
....I will wait for you
near the old pond. Be on time!

........You must take me in your arms.

2.
...I write to myself—

......for her poems float away
...............toward another lover.

 

[Angeline]

Say Madame Vice President,
let those words bloom like flowers.
Sisters, sisters. All sisters.

 

[butters]

blue skies
time to breathe
even with a mask on

 

[Levitating_Bed]

but there's still sevendy millyun elvisfans
who make that face
whenever you mention little richard

 

[Piscator]

Blue Suede Shoes
Birkenstocks
Doc Martens​

 

[Lyricalli]

Only Words

After reading all of his, my own fail to explain
the delicate intimacy shared with the beautiful fucked up man
who took me slowly, a syllable at a time








*with a nod to Sarah McLachlan's Building a Mystery

 

[Piscator]

Red plastic poppies, remnants of Remembrance Day
Whole Foods was way out of line to ban them
I need a hit of Red Dye 40.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Out there in orbit when
two worlds collide, crash
and move on, broken.

 

[Angeline]

Loss

Goodbye dear friend.
Tonight my heart is damaged,
but there's still room for you.

 

[todski28]

Red plastic poppies, remnants of Remembrance Day
Whole Foods was way out of line to ban them
I need a hit of Red Dye 40.

The joy of making every fucking thing political
"the personal is political",
is a mantra that should stop being spewed by zealots (note to self its infectious)

 

[Piscator]

Our memory ain’t what it used to be
but the world ain’t what is used to be
either.​

 

[UnderYourSpell]

In these pantaloons
this finest lace scattered,
revealing Annie.

 

[Piscator]

The map now red and blue
must be thrown into a paint mixer
and we’ll all be purple.

 

[champagne1982]

Three lines won't encompass
all my memories of you.
But they're a start.

 

[todski28]

Three lines won't encompass
all my memories of you.
But they're a start.

3 simple lines encompassing so much, it's funny when such a simple set of words has that kind of impact, well at least for me. thank you

 

[29wordsforsnow]

dry summer and no rain dance
matches lit and vengeful intent
(un)scorched earth by chance?

 

[29wordsforsnow]

haik

in the sand trap
whistling the sandy's rap
of trappy stand