Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Angeline]

smiles lips
curved whole
rocked gypsy
soul into
the mystic

 

[eagleyez]

lazy
now
cackles
at the
sweet
void
sunday
morning
sun.

 

[eagleyez]

she cultivates by hand,
deep
red
clay

tractors
lay
mired.

 

[Angeline]

all fields fallow
malleable
red clay
molded melded
hearts

stay

 

[eagleyez]

rusty old buffalo springfield

us here with shovel and pale.

 

[Icingsugar]

Blown up,
burned out,
ashes scattered
of ego
defamed,
defeated.

 

[Icingsugar]

sometimes
poetry
is not
enough

shut up

hold me

please

 

[Angeline]

sometimes
poetry
is not
enough

shut up

hold me

please

drop words
liift arms
don't speak
breathe in
breathe out

~

easy
hard
easy
hard
life
sucks
breath
breathe
alleviate

relieved?

~

don't ever
be defeated
transient
truculant ego
retreat
hope
replete

 

[Icingsugar]

92 minute Monday
58 keys
1111'th post
tick, tick, tick...

 

[Angeline]

buffalo poems

rusty old buffalo springfield

us here with shovel and pale.

sit down
this kind
woman
thinks
she's
hung
upside
down
***
so clancy?
can you
even sing
yet?
nowadays?
***
damn!
expecting
to fly
but
held a
broken arrow
****
singing
soft and low
yes joy
we know
today
tomorrow

 

[eagleyez]

ratty
old
jeans
driver
spits
and
looks
us
up
down.

 

[Angeline]

ten words
but i guess
only one
matters
so

yes.

 

[eagleyez]

come along
thru these thisles
these flowers
home aint far.

in hail storms
tin roof
clatters
but theres music inside.

sway
hips
lips
lost
this
mist
big
river
we
row.

 

[HomerPindar]

Learning English took years...
...so what's my rush with Italian?

 

[Linbido]

How to turn
the other cheek
when slapped
in stereo?

 

[Angeline]

lavender
smoked
blue gray gold
twilight sky
by you
souled

 

[eagleyez]

from just
south
the train
slow rumble
river shimmers
listen.

 

[The_Fool]

Fetters of responsibility
Chain my time
But not my heart.

Chocolate syrup
Tastes best
Served
On a pair of nipples.

The dress
That I liked best
Was on the floor.

I never hesitate
To thoroughly inspect
Freshly shaven lady’s legs.

 

[darkmaas]

rokumeikan
bonsai forest
Nagasaki butterfly
veranda life
deer cry pavillion

 

[Angeline]

never no mo
blues when you
sing blue skies
ring

***

bluebirds sing
happy clang
trains ran through
morning
rang

 

[Angeline]

foggy notion
it's 10
dress nines
where'd you go
again?

*****

hey dm
morning coffee
with cream
and traffic

 

[eagleyez]

rain
like
words
drifts
from
that
same
sky
over
you.

 

[Angeline]

silly boy
cute smile
i love
you know
then
while

 

[Bedazzler]

~River carrying away
my sin, my freedom
returned by tide~

~ No music,
no background,
no soul left.
Sing me alive! ~

 

[Linbido]

the
adventurer
observes
reality
in bloom
astonished
behind lids
asleep

...................


backpack, boots
and boldness
next turn
will deliver
the magic

....................


What's ahead?
What wonders?
No wonders.
World.
That is enough.


.....................

Tropics,
or suburbia?
No difference.
New ground?
Then explore.