New Game - Fishing For Poets!

[KTC]

This is a fun new challenge I’m putting forward to all the regulars in the AW Poetry Forums.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go forward into the AW World and fish for a member not accustomed to swimming the Poetry Forum waters. You get to push, poke and prod that member to come back to this thread and post a poem on any topic, in any style. Use Reps or PMs if need be. Pleading and begging will also be allowed. Don’t forget to give them the password when directing them back here: citrus

HAVE FUN! Anything goes but hair pulling.

If we catch any ‘fish’, don’t forget to encourage their craft by commenting on their contribution to this thread.

Go forth, you fishers of men. Bring us your reluctant poets, your dreamers, your un-huddled masses.

I’m officially declaring MARCH, 2008 as the FIRST ANNUAL MARCH INTO POETRY MONTH at Absolute Write!

[Cassiopeia]

In the still of night,
When silence looms,
My heart's unanswered plight,
Finds despair in empty rooms.

I wander finding nothing there,
But Dismay's insistent plot,
Sorrow's burden more than I can bear,
Waiting while dawn comes not.

The clock unrelentingly sounds,
My inescapable fears not spoken,
The darkness before me confounds,
Spirit becomes fragile and broken.

Nothing left in which to believe,
Dreams echo in empty rooms,
Loneliness finds no reprieve,
When silence looms.

*please remember, I know nothing of meter. But KTC has invited me to join you and I can not resist such a kind invitation. Thanks KTC. You've gotten me our of my comfort zone. ;)

[KTC]

Nice, Cass...I loved 'dreams echo in empty rooms' and 'sorrow's burden more than I can bear'. Thanks for jumping in and being the first willing victim...er...participant. I'm glad you spread your wings.



If anybody else is reading...go forth...find a new poet!

[Devil Ledbetter]

This (Whatever This Is)


You become everything
In the void I fill with trust
Pulsed over miles of cable wires
My hope syncs with despair

From reality to nothingness
I freefall through the ether
Unseen, untouched, unknown
And you're there, always there

[Cassiopeia]

Wow, very powerful for me DL.

I really like the imagery of "I freefall through the ether Unseen, untouched, unknown"

Beautifully expressed.

[oneblindmouse]

Neverland

What happens to the poems conceived untimely
when pen and paper are nowhere at hand?
Must they be lost,
unborn, embryonic odes,
their potential nipped in the bud,
forever adrift
in the limbo of dim memory?
Or are they perhaps washed up
on the shores of a distant Neverland,
an artless band of Lost Verses
led by a lyrical Peter Pan?

[KTC]

Wonderful offerings, guys. I'm glad you broke the ice and jumped on in. I think poetry is a very important instrument capable of improving all the other types of writing a writer does. It's like a goalie stretching before a game. Exercise to help your word manipulation powers. Thanks for joining in. Now that you have contributed, feel free to grab another non-poet non-posting-poet and drag them in.

Thanks again! Great work.

[P.H.Delarran]

good idea KTC.
I put my hooks in one, we'll see if I can keep him on the line.