Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Merrymaker]

delicate balance
striving to the edge
and back
for
more

 

[Tathagata]

delicate balance
striving to the edge
and back
for
more

being suspended
on a pin head
of pleasure
and
pain

 

[Angeline]

Ten minute break.
He comes home
for kisses
love yous

 

[Tathagata]

Pssssst
Ange
your..............ummmmmmmmm.........box is full

 

[upfront]

peering through a lens
of splintered invention
poised yet
disillusioned

 

[upfront]

psssssssssssssst Ange ... your box has been full for days ... i've tried to make love with you four times in pm - it was good for me, but i bet you didn't even feel it !!

 

[Angeline]

peering through a lens
of splintered invention
poised yet
disillusioned

intervention friendship
counters lonliness amid
the web of measured
voices

 

[upfront]

jeez Ange, I write my first ever poem and you try to make it into a conversation.

One step at a time, please!

 

[upfront]

intervention friendship
counters lonliness amid
the web of measured
voices

Amid serendipitous encounters
and internalized fiction
doth lurk
crap poetry

 

[Angeline]

Amid serendipitous encounters
and internalized fiction
doth lurk
crap poetry

Speak for your own
crap, pal. Call me
Queen Midas.

 

[upfront]

Speak for your own
crap, pal. Call me
Queen Midas.

I have a gold cock
precious
yet
declining in value

 

[Tathagata]

I have a gold cock
precious
yet
declining in value

mine's more like bronze and it's not
declining
it's
reclining

 

[Merrymaker]

shared orange
peeled
discarded with clothes
sticky table top treat

~

daydream is warm company
compared to sterile lunch break crowd

 

[Guest]

I have a gold cock
precious
yet
declining in value

For sale (or rent)
one gold cock
Possible collector's item.

 

[Tathagata]

shared orange
peeled
discarded with clothes
sticky table top treat

juice in my beard
and on my face
messy eating

 

[Guest]

juice in my beard
and on my face
messy eating

Sticky citrus kisses
lemon licks and
tangerine tastes.
yummie you.

 

[Tathagata]

Sticky citrus kisses
lemon licks and
tangerine tastes.
yummie you.

clemantine clinches
grapefruit gyrations
a fruit cocktail
so to speak

 

[Guest]

clemantine clinches
grapefruit gyrations
a fruit cocktail
so to speak

lip-wrapped
grapefruit segment
offering sweet-sour desire
suggesting?
requesting?

 

[Tathagata]

lip-wrapped
grapefruit segment
offering sweet-sour desire
suggesting?
requesting?

honey drizzled
tart licks
best not to bite
avoid squirts

 

[Guest]

honey drizzled
tart licks
best not to bite
avoid squirts

Sun-honeyed thigh drizzled
with light,
lickable.
Salivate salty skin

 

[Tathagata]

Sun-honeyed thigh drizzled
with light,
lickable.
Salivate salty skin

vinyl placemats
create a seasoned nectar
savored off
sunlit thighs



( sun-honeyed thigh....beautiful)

 

[Guest]

vinyl placemats
create a seasoned nectar
savored off
sunlit thighs



( sun-honeyed thigh....beautiful)

TY

Honey bees
Sunny bees
Drowsing in the window.
Flowers wait.

 

[Tathagata]

TY

Honey bees
Sunny bees
Drowsing in the window.
Flowers wait.

drones dronning
sitar insects
mystical backyard
a chorus of
mantras

 

[Merrymaker]

water floats with the wind
light prisms paint fleeting brilliance

 

[Tathagata]

water floats with the wind
light prisms paint fleeting brilliance

raindrops carry lightening
encapsulated brilliance
each drop
a thunder storm