Poetry Game, Anyone?

KTC · May 6, 2005

Caught in the billowing breeze,
Barefoot and finally at ease,
He swung.
Crows circling above,
Waiting for the trees to cease
their ardent orchestra
with the angry wind.
Pretty flowers
growing up
to meet
the hanging corpse.

Next word: SUNLIGHT

Cassie88 · May 6, 2005

Sunlight

We thought the sunlight
Bleached our souls

The sands of time
so long ago

Arms and legs
Stretched and turned
Bronze and gold

But he,
He burned.

We didn't know
We would've screamed

Or is that just
a mourner's dream?

Next word: death

Unique · May 6, 2005

Death in Spring

I count the lonely hours
Stifling pits of hell
picking bits of mortar
From the walls within my cell

Locked away inside
alone these twenty years
Mixing bits of mortar
With the salt of fallen tears

I could lie and say
I didn't mean to kill
But I took the time to bury
My child beneath the hill

They said that I went crazy
Howling at the moon
The truth was closer to this
My mind was in a swoon

The pressure drove me mad
The worry day by day
And soon we'll be together
When they take my life away.

Next word: mad

scullars · May 6, 2005

Don't mean to interrupt the flow, but I'm reading some great, powerful stuff here. Keep up the work!

Paint · May 6, 2005

Mythic battle

Witches and warlocks
Great hairy beasts
Vampires and dragons
Sleeping at feasts.

Holographic skies
Volcanos great blast
Haunted ships
With broken mast.

Kittens and puppies
with distorted eyes
Children throw thunder
Battles are lies.

Am I in a dream?
Or am I just mad
Only his trading cards
O I'm so glad.

next word: mast

Albedo of Zero · May 6, 2005

Men who climbed to see the land
announced with exclamation
"Storms begone from this mast's sight
tomorrow we are coming!"

Tomorrow came into the storm
sails flapped in anger
accusing gods of ocean core,
malicious wet behavior.

next word: climb

chelle21 · May 6, 2005

climb

someone one told me if I can climb the highest seas, climb the highes mountain I can be brave just like him. If I can brave why can't I? If I can be love, why can't I? If I can brave then tell me why I'm I so miserable.

Next Word: Why

KTC · May 6, 2005

The river bends
around familiar territory.
Rock facings, etched with the musings
of past generations,
asking questions
still asked today.
Only now the heirogyths
scrawled next to the ancient musings
seem more precise,
more vainly articulate.
Still,
they both ask
one question.
Why?

Next Word: Worry

Brainerd T. · May 6, 2005

oops!

Cabria · May 6, 2005

Because I worry
I hurry
with a scurry
and a flurry
into scenes of my life
that are blurry
instead of clear

Next Word: rushing

Cabria · May 6, 2005

Oops...simultaneous post again. Go with Brainerd T's next word: Oasis

Brainerd T. · May 6, 2005

footnote: This exercise is a lot of fun. This thread is so popular I'm always bumping into people tyring to post to it.

Albedo of Zero · May 6, 2005

Dry red eyes
wake with a sound
of hacking smoke deprived lungs
only to direct numb legs
to water on water
on water on hands
-dress, put on a face
of compliance and routine
-drive, white knuckled
rushing for focus
past brick on mortar
on mortar
on blacktop
on earth
-turn the radio
over and over till its done
-blink consciousness,
think about the end of the day,
the bed, the pillow

and I fall into
an oasis of dreams

(edited to include both words)
(almost forgot) next word: radio

Unique · May 7, 2005

Radio Waves

Rock, Shock, classical jazz

Alone in the car I sit on my aspirations <<<concession to Jenna's filter

Driving, darting, changing lanes

I envy the others using their brains

Only commuting - time sorely wasted

Wondering how life feels if it's tasted

Always the last to arrive at the station

Vacuum increases - the size of our nation

Education a siren calls out to me

Save this wretch from commute's misery.

Next word: Alone

Cabria · May 7, 2005

Alone

I sit alone
with people all around me
strangers who could be friends
or enemies
I feel scared
anxious
as the faces close in
and make my heart race
in palpitations

I'd rather be alone
with no one around me
than alone
with people around me

Next word: suffocate

alanna · May 7, 2005

the wall of rock looms above-
just a few thousand feet-then he'll rest.

the lactic acid burns as he pulls himself up-
just a few hundred feet-then he'll rest.

his head aches from the height-
just a few dozen feet- then he'll rest.

at the top now he glances-
surveys the world below.

his head gives one sharp throb-
and he rests.

next word: high

chelle21 · May 7, 2005

Reaching For The Top

Reaching for the top is more than I can do but hoping for glory isn't true.
My mind is made up. I can't go back down but reaching for the moutain
top isn't that high.

Next world: Reaching

William Haskins · May 8, 2005

'round curiosity and intellect
the chains of ambition clasp
(a dangerous situation for those
whose reach exceeds their grasp.)

next word: expectation

KTC · May 8, 2005

Expectation grips me
And I am none the wiser
That I cannot reach my goal.

Next word: Hyper

Eveningsdawn · May 8, 2005

hyperactivity

r eally,
truly,
im not us-
ually this hyper
and
disjoint-
ed.

but you try runnin'
on two hours
sleep
three cups
coffee
and too much
sugar

and see how hyper
you get

EDIT: next word - breathe

Cabria · May 8, 2005

Breathe

Breathe
fog-clinging air
dampening
humid-clad air
choking
icicle-spiked air
constricting
dry, hot air
searing
polluted, fumed air
poisoning
green, forest air
cleansing
mountain rich air
invigorating

whatever the air
we must breathe

Next word: oxygen

Albedo of Zero · May 8, 2005

you may think im a doxy,
genuinely breathless
in your throes of detoxy,
gentle dreams shake my
skin by proxy
-gentleman, excuse me when i think to curse you
for calling me foxy;
gender means nothing
when the oxy-
gen is gone

(repeat after me)next word next word next word: skin

Eveningsdawn · May 9, 2005

my skin
scars easily -
it always has.
and so,
i can see my past
--my falls,
my scrapes
(from climbing trees),
even papercuts
from work--
written on the
living parchment
of my body.

would that my future
was this clear

bugger! EDIT: next word - blood (extra points if it's non-morbid!)

Lucky Penny · May 9, 2005

Blood, the liquid of life

blood propelled by the heart
love contained in the heart
pain shattered the heart
blood's value lost

next word: indifferent

Cabria · May 9, 2005

Indifferent

at first
my feelings were hostile
bitter
raging
unforgiving
but as time passed
so did the storm
now my feelings
are simply
indifferent

Next Word: forgive

Poetry Game, Anyone?

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Make mine a double entendre

Agent of Doom

Writer/Bibliophile

Warrior of Truth

That didn't hurt

Stand in the Place Where You Live

---the wordmaster ---

---the wordmaster ---

That didn't hurt

Agent of Doom

poet

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Just Sing.

That didn't hurt

Just Sing.

Been gone WAY too long!