The All New Poetry Game!

KTC · Aug 21, 2006

Write a poem based on the SONG TITLE provided by the person in the previous post. (After writing your poem, don't forget to include the next song title.)

Song Title: The Beauty of Poison (Artist: Specimen)

gromhard · Aug 21, 2006

The beauty of poison
isn't in the herb
nor is it the application
sprayed on food
dripped in drink
laced along the edge
of a sharpened blade
The beauty is in the mercy
it could have been a gun
you could have blown me up
or let the dogs of Hell loose upon me
but you chose intimacy
and you allowed me to fall asleep
in your arms
the beauty of your poison
is in your eternal compassion
even in your darkest actions

Song Title: Paint it Black (Artist: Rolling Stones)

KTC · Aug 21, 2006

I want it for myself,
this image of a lady dancing.
Alive with the beat
of unheard music.
The canvas breathes
and I hold my heart
for a beat,
entranced by the way
her dress is caught
in a whirl of gathering air.
I'll paint it black,
and capture the image
in my mind's eye
so nobody else
can see.

Song Title: Hong Kong Garden (Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees)

ricahardo · Aug 21, 2006

Hong Kong Garden

Crammed in rows of vegetables
growing side by side,
Mandarin and Marxism
entwined with British pride,
Mai Ree, Mai Ree how does your garden grow?
Are there too many stones
or rules that bind
or is the rainfall low?
What is this modern culture
of Chinese mixed with fate?
Capitalistic communists
provide profits for the state.
Red and blue makes purple
the color of the blood
that once saw puddles in the square
where Tianemen was in flood.
The gander's far more happy
now the goose is getting fat
he's got a place where he can roost
and yeah - he is 'all that'.

Next: Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)

laurel29 · Aug 21, 2006

Oh boy another game

Songbird

The lark
in the meadowsweet
sings of things we understand
it is only his language
that escapes us

here we sit
looking at each other
unable to speak of our thoughts
an incomprehensible jumble
of images stirred

our silent observation
could be a burden growing
each moment - bleeding into another
until words are not necessary,
the song will speak for us.

Song title: Every Planet We Reach Is Dead (Artist: The Gorillaz)

KTC · Aug 21, 2006

... Day (Artist: The The)

laurel29 · Aug 21, 2006

This is the day.
Empty words
-repeated -
Staring,
hollow eyed,
into the mirror.
This is the day
- I swear it is.

Song Title: Santeria(Artist: Sublime)

poetinahat · Aug 21, 2006

Too late. I'm leaving this one, and I'll write another.

leaves of newspaper
rustle and flap
as the late spring morning
plays its breeze through
the patio
squinting over orange juice,
i see
you in the morning
a slice of toast
shears softly in your teeth
hidden by your lips
only the marmalade tartness
purses you to dimples

i feel the cool fresh nothing
of contentment bathe me
the breeze ruffles my hair
and our eyes meet
like silk and linen

the sweetness of eternity
before sweet drape of death
only comes to us once
this is the day.

================

blood needs blood
stone meets flesh
god needs us
and we need more

the crucifix and mask
cast shivers of brutal passion
we tremble in holy samba
and join fearfully, holy
in santeria.

Song title: Karma Suture (The Monochrome Set)

KTC · Aug 21, 2006

Each slice,
livid and vivid,
pierces my wrinkled flesh.
Stings the fine layers
of snake-like clothing
wrapped around my tortured limbs.
Your words,
hot flesh wounds of the mind.
Your unconvincing apologies,
all I deserve,
karma sutures
retaliation for the love I would not give.

Song Title: Ideas As Opiates (Artist: Tears For Fears)

NeuroFizz · Aug 21, 2006

Vein-popping ideas
as cerebral hemorrhages
of thought

dull the pain
of boredom and better yet,
of idolatry

Song title: Beast of Burden (by the Rolling Stones)

KTC · Aug 21, 2006

Like carrion I lie,
splayed across your mattress,
awaiting your devouring of me.
Naked, in the glare of bare bulbs,
I anticipate that first touch,
that moment when we cannot
turn back.
Erotic, that lip of time.
I will be
but your beast of burden,
awaiting for that
melting of limbs,
that scintillating ribbon
of touch
when beads of sweat
merge
and I surrender
under your needful weight.

Song Title: Road Trippin' (Artist: Red Hot Chilli Peppers)

laurel29 · Aug 21, 2006

Dust rolls on,
lost
in the horizon.
Our wheels follow,
rambling
without direction.
moving forward always
-only-
for the sake of motion

Song Title: Norwegian Wood (Artist: The Beatles)

gromhard · Aug 21, 2006

Johanna Strohmeyer
was big and blonde
and pronounced her
J's like Y's
She had broad shoulders
and a six foot frame
with sea blue crystal eyes

We met it in a pub
and I'd had more than my fill
She took me by the hand
led me to her loft above
and I took her over the night stand

When it was done
I tipped my hat
said "Thanks the sex was good"
But to my horror she turned around
and was sporting Norwegian Wood

Song Title: Love Cats (Artist: The Cure)

ddgryphon · Aug 21, 2006

the air is blue with smoke
slow Jazz hums low and sweet
an urgent shallow beat
sharing a gauzy toke

love cats we stalk the night
sultry brown eyes hunting
no need to be fronting
it’s passion we ignite

notes fade, dissolve away
as sun licks nighttime’s edge
don’t need to make no pledge
walking from your stairway

from dusk to dawn delight
the old established rite
our days will have no sun
‘cause love cats love as one

Song title: Straight No Chaser (Artist: Thelonius Monk)

KTC · Aug 22, 2006

I sipped tangerines
from her lint-filled navel,
maddened her impulse
to lick.
Shaved lines through
her blonde feathers,
told her she would
have to be like me,
part Mohican,
to board the bus.
Her little girl shoes,
they had to go.
Book bags and ponies too.
I smeared her eye-liner,
showed her
how to drink her Daniels,
straight, no chaser,
and then,
with one dizzying spin
of initiation,
she was ready
to fall
from the liquid edge
of the heartless world.

Song Title: How Soon Is Now (Artist: The Smiths)

poetinahat · Aug 22, 2006

a fleeing lover
i'd advise
to take escape by train
departure's quick and merciful
(and poignant if it rains)

a last embrace
beside the tracks
entices desperate vows
not to forget... until it's time
to leave? How soon is now!

Song Title: Dance Away (Roxy Music)

KTC · Aug 22, 2006

A fleeting moment
in memory.
yet it burns
with a super nova quality.
Lasting only a moment.
Black lighting mimicks
your moving limbs,
makes me question
the reality of your skeletal dance.
But dance, you must,
dance away,
in my burning memory.
For you are the dervish
in my waking dreams.

Song Title: Let the Four Winds Blow (Artist: Tenpole Tudor)

poetinahat · Aug 22, 2006

Awash upon a barren spit of shale
condemned to stuff my salty mouth with kelp

Or left to rot and ponder unfair fate
Forsaken in Kolkata's leper hordes

Misunderstood, no tongue, no face, no name
denied that I exist, no hand to help

Or mocked, a failure, stupid, mean, ashamed
To watch my enemies accept awards

I'd let the four winds blow and choose my fate
among these terrors -- or another worse --

Than spend another hour at home with thee
pretending love: there is no harder curse.

Song title: If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett)

KTC · Aug 22, 2006

I'd set it out
upon the growing tide,
relax my feet
in the cooling water
for just a moment,
if I had a boat.
I'd slice through
the wintry waves
with angry precision,
pivot perfectly from side to side,
if I had an oar.
I'd long to see her,
cherish memories of touch,
and romance naked in my mind,
as I made my way to the opposite shore,
if I had a waiting lover.

Song Title: Misty Circles (Artist: Dead Or Alive)

ddgryphon · Aug 22, 2006

The dream is always the same
misty circles recede
I fall from one
to the next
to the next
to the next
Calm
saddened
the world fades
somewhere above
in colors changing
beyond
I am dew
I am bright hues
I am resolved
until I wake

Song Title: The River Turns The Wheel (Artist: Bob Martin)

KTC · Aug 22, 2006

...t: Elvis Costello)

Paint · Aug 22, 2006

Ally

Alison, Ally
sleeping all alone
do those kitties
love you like I did?

Alison, Ally
talking on the phone
grandchildren many
fill the void I left?

Alison, Ally
o I did you so wrong
I sleep in motels
thinking of your arms.

Alison, Ally
what happened to our song?
so sweet, so gone
no more.

Rust Never Sleeps--Neil Young

ddgryphon · Aug 22, 2006

I
Know
decay
and ruin
how slow consumption
rots to dust all that can be bright
such rust never sleeps
it is there
waiting
for
you

Next song: Limboland (Artist: Betty)

Shwebb · Aug 22, 2006

I break my back to mold myself
You hold the standard to which I rise and fall
You set the pace
You are the music maker
And I go ‘round and ‘round.

When you are silent, I’m lost
adrift in Limboland
At the edge of something
Wonderfulterrible

How low can I go?

"American Pie" by Don McLean

KTC · Aug 23, 2006

Half eaten,
laying ditchside
on an empty highway.
The lust of millions,
the envy of none.
American Pie.

Song Title: The Flowers of Romance (Artist: P.I.L. aka Public Image Limited)

The All New Poetry Game!

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Stand in the Place Where You Live

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Stand in the Place Where You Live

has a lopsided smile.

Numbers are beautiful

Stand in the Place Where You Live

The grad students did it

Stand in the Place Where You Live

has a lopsided smile.

King of Sloth Town

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Numbers are beautiful

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Numbers are beautiful

Stand in the Place Where You Live

King of Sloth Town

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Warrior of Truth

King of Sloth Town

She's the creepy-looking dude

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