Tag: poetry please single word challenge
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September 19, 2008 10:16 AM EDT --
Staring
Through the transparent pane
Separated
From a world of vibrant colors
Vision
Blocked by a faint refection of
Me
And all I have left behind me
Hindering
Me from seeing . . . more
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September 18, 2008 12:07 PM EDT --
If the eyes are the windows to the depths of your soul
I am really afraid of what I can see
Your eyes have clouded and shine no more
For your family, your children, or for me. . . . more
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September 17, 2008 12:23 AM EDT --
As Time Flies
She sits at the window
waiting for time to stop
but it never does
She simply carries on
and on an on
She has outlived all those . . . more
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May 13, 2008 11:30 AM EDT --
This week's prompt is the number three
Rictameter is a form of unrhymed poetry of nine lines with the syllable count 2,4,6,8,10,12,10,8,6,4,2 with the first and last line being the same. You can . . . more
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October 23, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
BOWL
an empty hollow
that can be filled
giving life
Or if bereft
is filled
with death
Deep or shallow
glass or wooden
many forms
many shapes
they matter . . . more
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November 13, 2007 07:32 PM EST --
Ok, I thought I would attempt this weeks single word prompt. This is my first public attempt to do so! I hope you enjoy it!
Tissues
These days, it is all I have . . . more
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January 29, 2008 08:25 AM EST --
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July 08, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
I forgot to link y'all to this: How To Write a Sestina
Try it, you'll be glad you did.
No one
Can write a poem using two
Hands, a sheet of . . . more
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June 02, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
The Winners of Week Thirty Five of the Poetry Please Single Word Challenge, "Vacation", Are...
Our Poets in order of appearance: . . . more
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February 20, 2008 10:06 AM EST --
Ten tiny toes like pearls to kiss,
Your heartbeat against my chest,
You fit just here in the palm of my hand.
blink
Ten tiny toes taking steps on their own,
Just one, maybe two, . . . more
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October 03, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
Inside
Why do I hide?
The open window taunts
Whispering the joys of outdoors
Calling me to that world I'll never know
The glass is tear - stained and hazy
All . . . more
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February 18, 2008 11:13 AM EST --
Winter Sonnet
So when the swirling snow begins to fall
outside where frigid dreams begin to dance
their tarantellas to the gods of chance,
these wintry symbols list to bear their all
upon . . . more
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September 19, 2008 09:39 PM EDT --
One eighth inch thick
clear window pane
no barrier to light,
becomes a border
can't be crossed
though the other side
is in plain sight.
Poor flys entrapped
insanely crawl . . . more
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July 14, 2008 03:19 PM EDT --
When we met, I fell for you fast.
I told you all the things of my darkened past.
But you didn't worry about the past I told.
So I ran forward, with my heart brave and bold. . . . more
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June 29, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
Welcome all Poetry Please members!
"A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity."
Honore de Balzac
The . . . more
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July 06, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Welcome all Poetry Please members!
"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
Walter Annenberg
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July 13, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
Welcome all Poetry Please members and honored guests!
"The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:53 PM EDT --
Welcome all Poetry Please members and honored guests!
"I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny . . . more
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April 26, 2008 11:22 AM EDT --
O' beautiful! The spacious skies,
Filled with carbon air for gain,
Our purple mountain majesties
May be all that will remain!
America's Guantanamo!
Bush took your grace from thee, . . . more
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May 05, 2008 10:52 PM EDT --
My kids are grown
they ask for money
they don't understand
the land of milk and honey
I work and work
each day I grind
to make the cheese
to ease the mind
nickles and dimes
I'll . . . more
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