Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Angeline]

*

 

[Guest]

Ducks are in.

Setting my ducks in a row,
ready, aim and fire!

 

[The_Fool]

M.R. Ducks
M. R. Not
O. S. A. R.

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C. M. Wangs
L. I. B.
M. R. Ducks


Okay so I cheated.....

No I didn't create it...I just thought it fit....

 

[Guest]

ugly duckling
waddling away,
returning
as a graceful white swan.

 

[denis hale]

Ah!

Hocus Pocus
no smoke

in this locus-- a hall
of mirrors...

numbers don't lie
but verify

how beautiful
she is!

 

[Angeline]

*

 

[denis hale]

yum!

Oh my word
Sweet Natalie

brings bulging
Wood

by the cord.

 

[Angeline]

*

 

[Angeline]

^

 

[Rybka]

If the ends
Don't
Justify the means
What does?

 

[Guest]

Is it a means to end
or a mean ending?

 

[The_Fool]

When the end comes
Don’t tell me.
Just walk away.

***

Can’t you put an end
To your meanness?
Your anger?

***

The fighting means nothing.
Its making up
I care about.

 

[Guest]

Tears spangled your cheek,
they were not yours,
but mine.

 

[Icingsugar]

Sounds...

shut up
you'll drown
what's being
unsaid

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walking with headphones
navigating through sweeps
beats and pedestrians

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cling bite grab bruise
shout my name
give me tinnitus

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silence
sigh
rustle
kiss
creak
giggle
whispers
"Again?"
"For ever."

 

[Angeline]

*

 

[eagleyez]

evangelist roars-
"unclutter your mind."


as i read the paper.

 

[Guest]

Tickle the ivories,
Stroke the strings,
Shiver me timbers!
Genius!

Harry's sax sings.
Ain't it the truth?
Songs without words.

I love these frosty
crystal days.
Unobstructed sun
endless blue.

The forecast is for starry nights,
cold front moving
in.


The flowers died
forgotten
No heart
to throw them out.

 

[TheOlderGuy]

The perfect tan
the perfect man
George Hamilton
in bronze.


What?
Oh . . .
You said
The perfect ten
well, never mind.

 

[eagleyez]

schematic
americana


rabbit ears
phone poles
fender twins
billboard signs.

 

[Angeline]

*

 

[Linbido]

impaled
upon
a rusty yet
razor sharp
illusion
of grandeur




Who the hell are you
to believe
in me?!

 

[eagleyez]

10 words
hill a beans

ten kisses
mountain.

 

[Senna Jawa]

10 words
hill a beans

ten kisses
mountain.

Let me reduce to 10 my following old extension of the known saying:

        a picture is worth a thousand words
        a woman is worth a thousand pictures
        ergo a woman is worth a million words


Now the short version:


                picture = a thousand words
                woman = a thousand pictures


Regards,

 

[Icingsugar]

You space out,
superfluous,
redundant
they said.
Condense this, motherfuckers.

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Dreams of 'larger than life'.
But where would I sleep?

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An ordinary, boring, plain neutrum.
The only alternative lifestyle left.

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even icons, kings and presidents
suffer
the occational consipation

 

[SomewhatSublime]

quiet emptiness
rattling leaves
dried and brittle
tapping the pavement