Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Guest]

Why am I angst-driven?
Turn away
Look elsewhere.
anywhere.


Or close your eyes
and ears.
let it wash over.

 

[eagleyez]

thugs
thieves
chaos
bleeds


no
not
that
love
machines.

groan.

 

[Guest]

Peace
Sun
Chidren at play


All good things
Spring
Alive

 

[minsue]

breaking wave
over prone bodies
washes us
clean for once

 

[Liar]

through
midnight depths
microstorm
luminisence algae
blush the black mirror

 

[Tathagata]

despite verbs and adjectives
the truth remains,as always, unspeakable

 

[Linbido]

Advise for poets.

----

just this:
more than grammar
larger than message
silent music

----

elsewhere:
language < communication
communication < connection
connection < reaction

poetry:
language = reaction

----

explore
experiment

...spellblind...
...starshrine...

discover backdoors
to a dictionary's spine

----

 

[eagleyez]

scruffy jaw
betrayal memories
nobody said this

would be easy.


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cold mountain
fire lookout
galvanized stairs
pines full of cones.

----------

harmonica holder
chokes me a tad
slide up the neck

 

[Angeline]

sub rosa
the pleasure
is
your dark
all smiling
queen

****
walk six steps
baby
lay down
here
now
breathe in

*****
hold on tight
now clench
then relax
freedom never
hurts

*****
slap tickles
kiss bites
tomorrow's wish
today is
this bliss

 

[Tathagata]

eyes downcast
rain spattered face
ashen sky
love has gone

 

[eagleyez]

infinity
timeclock
river
unfreezes
right
on
schedule
eternity
explodes
silently.

 

[Maria2394]

tylox
on my bagel
she's
creamed cheese
feels
no
pain

 

[Guest]

sirens at night
heart stopping.
who's hurt?
who's life chenged?

 

[Maria2394]

adam & eve, fine dining

bitten
apple
pair
short a rib
no
tie
in
sight

 

[Maria2394]

insomni yaaakk

REM
sleep
dreams elusive
as
feathers
on a
penguin
useful

 

[The_Fool]

What day is this?
I've lost
all sense
of time.

 

[The_Fool]

Cereal bowls
Give way
To cold pizza
In High School

 

[Guest]

What day is this?
I've lost
all sense
of time.

They call it
"Hump Day"
and I just realised
why.

 

[The_Fool]

They call it
"Hump Day"
and I just realised
why.

Surmounting the hump
Led me to picnic
On the mound.

 

[Guest]

"mounting"
"hump"
and "mound"
in one poem,

AND it's clean!

 

[The_Fool]

Sticky fingers.
Licking them clean
once again
I taste
baclava.

 

[Guest]

The Ass Man
teaseth the
ass off
Tristesse,
she sayeth.

 

[Liar]

i'm
a
bit

a
on

put
off

by

multisyllabical exhaustiveness

 

[Angeline]

i'm
a
bit

a
on

put
off

by

multisyllabical exhaustiveness

smile
sigh

go
out
side

look

read
the
sky

 

[minsue]

Personal

trusting eyes
seared me
to the bone
I'm so sorry