Tag: poetry please single word challenge
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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 . . .
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December 08, 2008 01:29 AM EST --
Silence surrounds me
It's depth is profound
The household is sleeping
No one is around
My thoughts take to wandering
Straying often back to . . .
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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 . . .
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January 19, 2008 10:55 PM EST --
Life's Woven Essence
Ethereal beauty burning brightly
Emanating gently from within her soul
Surrounding her loved ones with comfort
Her life's woven essence . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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, . . .
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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: . . .
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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
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March 19, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
With Optimistic note
eyes ran over from
pilar to post
reaffirming the surpassed words
of recommendation
to live and to long
for the winning prize-Declaration
Cash Grant . . .
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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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January 18, 2008 03:13 PM EST --
The pesky wick is short.
It sputters, it crackles, it dims.
Now it's dark in here.
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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. . . .
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November 30, 2008 11:31 PM EST --
The sound of a newborn
when it gives its first cry
can bring a special feeling
and a tear to your eyes!
On a day that is warm
without a cloud in the . . .
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December 04, 2007 09:32 AM EST --
As the darker Blackblue, achingly slow, Rises
To annihilate frivolous cerulean hues-
The seeing time is covered, is closed.
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