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Great poems!
You're on a roll Annie!
Potent poetry production line,
industrialised,
but not sterilized.
Looking for good clean fun?
Move along!
It'll be hot and steamy,
romantic and dreaming,
As the work rolls away from her pen,
And the poet breaks out her word zen.
Uggg
I’m a rookie just testing Myself.
The Angel of Temptation and the beauty named Eve.
It started years ago, voice of an Angel with a mind of a tempting devil.
Her voice sweet and kind, but with such a dirty sexy mind.
Before finding love she whispered into my ear.
Many nights all alone, it was like she was beside Me or on the phone.
The Angel of a voice so sexy and sweet.
Will never know how much she helped Me.
I wondered over the list, soon found a new voice.
A beauty named Eve, with a wicked playful mind.
She was different in style, with a touch of overseas class.
What a voice, what a mind, and a bigger heart to please then one could dream.
The one called Eve was also a gift in My lone time.
She is gifted at pleasure and enjoys it so.
I found more peace because of her gift, it was as if she could make you float.
The time has changed Me for the better.
I’ve found love, beyond all others.
The Angel and Eve, I am thankful still.
These women eased pain in so many ways.
To each I say one final thought.
Thank you for your gifts and your naughty beautiful hearts.
To Angel and Eve of the Audio of Lit.
Captured in pool blue memory
as if it were photography,
the last hours of virginity:
ghost white legs kicking
up spume enough to lace
a mango one-piece. Brothers Marco
then polo. The California boy,
almost 18, climbs the high dive
slowly. Bounces twice before
he slices down, and breathless
seconds pass. He tugs my leg
before he surfaces, rattling
droplets from his alien
hair, his alien tan. Of course
that evening I held his hand
and pretended I had before.
The real surprise was brevity.
An ash length of one
cigarette. After, he asked
if I was going to cry. Still
Stunned I answered no.
He held me anyway. Just
Two years later he died,
self-strangled. I decided
California dreams were lies
and gave up trying to tan.
But summer. Summer.
Thanks for joining in, I was beginning to wonder what I'd done wrong that nobody was talking to me!
Theme #5
Write a poem about shopping for breakfast cereals.
Here between the coco-pops
froot-loops
And the mundane all too serious
bran-based cardboard-flavoured dross
I find a simpler idea
that this is the dream
it’s hard and there’s suffering
my bones ache from overuse
but when she toddles up the aisle
pulling things of shelves
smiling the joy of first discoveries
and the boys argue and tussle
my eldest herding the youngest
like herding a cat
(yeah I’m that dad
the one that runs his kids
freerange through the shops)
because strapping them down is no way for
then to feel the world
beneath their feet
to fall and fail
to learn the resilience to accept no
to understand boundaries
without boundaries
to find their own way while
I’m still alive enough
to pick them up when they fall down
It’s worth the disapproving looks
it’s worth the constant redress
because their future is brighter
when they learn things
deep in their skin
when they can feel every bump
every emotional scar
Yeah here in the cereal aisle
I see more than just brands
and the mundane
I see more potential
than they know
I only just saw this thread, dunno why, so I'll see about slipping into author-mode and getting some of those triggers done anew (maybe doing some of the ones I missed the first time around *g*) throughout the week.
Oh Tod that is so beautiful and dare I say my most favourite of all you have written? Has it gone into submissions, because I'll 5 it
Since the new upgrade to the home page etc I wouldn’t even have a clue how to submit my writings truth be told Ibhavent been to new poems or the other side of lit for probably close to a year, I’ve been flat out busy and tend to submit anything to the other poetry site I frequent, more eyes, more feedback, though it tends to be almost all positive and very few real critiques but you get the odd gem.
As to this being a fav thanks Annie it does mean a lot, the spelling errors m, repeats and structure need a decent tidy up before it goes anywhere though
I had to go looking myself to remember how to submit but if you follow this link it should take you to your Personal Control Panel then go to works and up the top it says submit story which then gives you the option to submit a poem.
If you mean the other site I think you do, I rather deserted as so many sycophants abound!
By the way I like your poem just as it is, it's raw and powerful!
As to the final statement yup asskissery is a top priority for most of them,
As to the poem, most of my stuff is raw, and has. certain todski to it, but getting things from raw and powerful to refined and powerful..... it’s where I fail
I will think about submitting it, but it’s hard to throw things out for minimal return.... granted Ibhavent been commenting properly not critiquing for gods knows how long so I don’t feel like I should submit it, for the sake of fairness of that makes sense to you
Thanks for joining in, I was beginning to wonder what I'd done wrong that nobody was talking to me!
I know that feeling! ;D
Do you, I hope it wasn't me! I even tried going back to the place Tod mentioned and I'm being ignored there too. I'm getting paranoid now!