Challenge: The perfect ten.

[eagleyez]

sort
the clothes

left here
again

snow
under
your wheels.

 

[Guest]

Let It Be
Naked.
O I remember.
Coming of age.

We used broomstick guitars
in the basement.
lip-synching
expertly.

John was my love.
sarcastic cat
smart ass
genius
dead.

Now
here they are again
on our way back home.

 

[eagleyez]

dec 8 1980
car
ride
thru
berkeley

what
he say?

 

[Guest]

I forgot to remember
but remembered
anyway.
He's always here.

 

[eagleyez]

lover

whats
mine
is yours

forever

endeavor
forever.

 

[Angeline]

endeaver together
two strophes
being
one poem
endeavor forever
home

 

[The_Fool]

Did someone order
coffee
with that sugar?
One lump?
Two?





I am such a dick, sometimes.....

 

[eagleyez]

sugar sweet
in

frosted
fritter

old
man
beat
tired
bitter

 

[Guest]

nothing like
sugar rush
to turn
a brain to mush

 

[Icingsugar]

sheesh you loud
get a two
for crying out room

u kno who 'm talkin' 'bout

 

[Icingsugar]

Flesh
piling stones

Inukshuk
Borobadour
Chartres

to what end?

What
brought
monuments?

Paradigmic
pinnacle?

No,
sticks and stones.

Always.

 

[Angeline]

Did someone order
coffee
with that sugar?
One lump?
Two?





I am such a dick, sometimes.....

my joy
cause
for sorrow?

fine.

here today.
gone tomorrow.

 

[Icingsugar]

misposted

will use
my granted space
for poetry

soon

 

[eagleyez]

laughter

measure that
against
slow
river
bed
train

best
meal.

 

[The_Fool]

Warmth
ever fleeting
vanishes
when leaves fall
and you cry

 

[Guest]

Sitting chilly
easel leaning
pencil poised
mind meandering
muse missing.



He said
I can't
and won't.

I said,
all right.


Dryer churning
buckles click and rattle.
Did we need that?

 

[eagleyez]

a red star
on his
hat

kitchen
full
of
laughter.

 

[Somme]

milk 'n two
stirred
against the grain

a biscuit
a cuppa
and you


(with apologies)

 

[Icingsugar]

she stirs
counter-clockwise
less sugar
more cream

exotica
in trifles

 

[Guest]

Stray cat sleeping
frosted fur
nose buried
one eye open.



He said it's
ho ho hell
the beard itches

smiles.


I want a piece of peace
wrapped in holly paper.

 

[Angeline]

your peace is rapt
holy in words
needing no mouths

 

[eagleyez]

deliberate
life
now

maps
folded

keeping
the
plants
alive.

 

[Guest]

your peace is rapt
holy in words
needing no mouths

Peaceful rapture
mouths smile sublime
Holding words
shared in silence

 

[Guest]

snow blowers know
snow blows
so no snow, no how.


rain again
stains the pane.
wet lets it get better.


Better wet and warm
than in a snow storm,
eh?

 

[Senna Jawa]

 


            airplanes enter clouds
            people fall asleep


wh,
1995-11-20



            pigeonshit
            in my mailbox


wh,
1995-12-11