FRAGMENTS OF POETRY'S POEMS AND SCORES

Lap3~Round 12~Halloween

Witches, warlocks
Beasts and bats
Spiders, creepers
Snakes and rats

On this night
We all fit in
Halloween
A night for sin

Lap 3 Round 13 Toilet

Bathroom Sadness

Oh toilet, I wish I could carry
you around with me.
Then I could dispose
all of my broken words
that I don't want. I could
get rid of the heart-breaks
and the heart-breakers.
Flush. There go
all the bad grades, the gossip,
and the i-don't-love-yous.
Alas, you remain
in the bathroom. Perhaps
if i got the axe out.

Lap 4 Round 1 21 Syllables.

Fairytale Ending.

Dandelions speckle,
The green grass,
Swaying in the wind,
Of your fairytale story.

Lap 4 - Round 2 - Tanka

sometimes I heard you
in the pauses of the rain
singing the blues chords-
as I curled up in a ball
like koalas in disguise

Lap4~Round 3~ water

The rain danced across my eyelashes
You could not see my tears
I was drowning inside this watery abyss
And no one could see it
Finally I felt alone

Lap 4- Round 4- Free verse

An empty soul has nothing,
But a dream thrown over their,
Poor naked shoulder.

Lap 4 - round 5 - Include the word "microscope"

At night I feel like a burglar
of my own body,

I want to reach out

and dig through my ear -
pull out brain cells,
slivers of water
and memories.

And put them under
a microscope
just to find out
that childhood
has infected me.

Lap 4 Round 6 Wild Card - Free Verse

Classrooms

We didn't go to class
today. Instead,
you taught me
about listening to stars,
knitting scarves,
and how to break hearts.

Which comfort food
is the best,
and what television shows
to watch when sad.

I know now about
the right songs for anger
and for happiness.

You gave me a gold star
for my progress, and
we decided to not
go back to school tomorrow.

Lap 4 Round 7 - Cats

Snooty Cat

I am the master of my fate
With nine lives to spare
I take baths for a scratch
And strokes to lift my bum

But beware, for behind my charm
Is a devil with many eyes
Those who meet me in the dark
Peed their pants in mighty fright

Lap 4 - round 8 - aabab rhyme scheme

Medusa's hair looks like spaghetti
with too much tomato-rips scattered about like confetti
Her split ends burp Neruda's odes to any food
Including lover-meat, which makes them a bit sweaty
knowing that after dinner, they'll surely be screwed

Lap 4 Round 9 PnQ Member

Introductions

A poet, you say. I could write
about many, but really
the only I know are me. Do
I qualify, I ponder, as a member
of P and Q? Or would it be
a little conceited to write
about myself, out of these
hundreds of poets? Maybe it's
that I love you all, and
picking just one of you would
be favouritism. You see, this
is the fair way to do it. Hello
Poems and Quotes, I am
Hayley. Nice to meet you.

Lap4~Round 10~Alliterative

Sadness slumped across her shoulders
Sullen, somber eyes sank to the ground
Salty streams of solitude, streaked her cheeks
Sanity seems anything but sane when you're sad

Lap 4 - Round 11 - 5 Lines

Concealed within somber poesy
Her love's demise;
Sacred litanies from the heart
in dusty books weeping
Wrapped up and disguised.

Please eliminate

Lady Aureus Argentum
Melissa
Liquid Grace

Lap 4 - round 12 - Halloween

As a child,
I saw
princesses and witches
carving pumpkins
as if it's fun to make your hands
look like ten carrots
and a palm.
I never understood
why they smiled as creepily
as that wicked orange ball
that doesn't bounce, but splatters
when you throw it
at those sparkly strangers.
I never understood
what's the use of a knife
on a holiday
when you can't
saw
through a voodoo doll
like cake.

Perhaps they're insane.

Lap4~Round 13~Toilet

Peace

I never found anywhere more quiet
More private
My thoughts echoed off the walls
As I purged myself of the day
My mind was free
Everything I needed
Quiet
Water
A mirror to stare at my broken reflection
Now
If only
This toilet could flush away this emotional waste

Lap 5 - Round 1 - 21 Syllables

i have a dictionary
but the only beautiful word
i can find there
is you

Lap 5 - Rounnd 2 - Tanka

Blackout

What does beauty mean
when dying breaths are certan
no radiant sun
nor a glow of orange skies
shall abet the failing sight

Lap 5 - Rounnd 3 - water

Men used to swallow

water

with its thousand faces
like the moon

- one day blood-red
in Shanghai's presence

the other day golden
and nested in clouds
like a watchful dragon eye -

but now

water

swallows a thousand faces

of men

Lap 5~Round 4~ Free Verse

I touched the sky
It reminded me of you
Soft, warm and full of dreams
Stars twinkling like your amber eyes

Round 5 Lap 5 microscope

Dropping Biology

First period, monday
morning, and the bio teacher
is ranting
about the fish on our tables
waiting to be dissected
and put under the microscope.
All I want to do
is take my fish,
put it in her mouth,
and leave.

Update: Due to the 3 further eliminations, you now only have to wait 4 rounds between poems. This is effective immediately as you asked in the last lap. Mya, Colm or Kips must go next to start you off.

You still have 3 personal HH remaining. A new general HH has been announced.

Scoreboard updated.

Lap 5 - Round 6 - Wildcard (aabab rhyme)

Another time I would have run
under a fiery midday sun
but now I cant face anything but the light
of stars and lunar reflective night,
And maybe thats life, all said, all done

HAPPY HOUR *STARTS NOW!

Lap 5 - ROund - 7 - Cats

The Last Cat Standing

I have travelled
between Ancient Egypt
and the Indus valley
barefoot

lost my lover Mau
in a raging Nile
while others
have settled
for Persian kibbles

I have the whole world
and its routes
outlined in my fur

I am
Proud to be an

Ocicat.

Lap 5 - round 8 - aabab rhyme scheme

Your head is bigger than an ostrich's egg
How do you even balance with such a bony leg
During maths you're smart because you're blocking all my sight
But once I crack your neck I'm sure to make you beg the frying pans alight

Lap 5~Round 9~PnQ Member

Dear Nor

She hails
from the land,
trapped inside my heart

An Egyptian princess
of unmatched beauty

Pyramids built
upon her smile

Dreams,
born in her soulful eyes

Comfort,
in her laughter

Egypt
a magical land
that gave me friendship

Round 10 Lap 05 - Alliterative

Music makes monstrous
beasts of the best of us.
Its infectious incantations
work their wild ways
into our mystified minds,
to change the tune
of thinking and thoughts.
Maybe we are Maenads for Music -
these are our wild wanderings.

Lap 5 - Round 11 - Five Lines

Skydive

Stepping into the clear space with you, and waiting
A millisecond for the violence of gravity to propel us
murderously to Earth, I clutch you through the harness tighter
than I ever clamped onto a thing before. Amongst this madness
I saw a den by the river, painted red, in September.

Lap 5 - Round 12 - Halloween

Demonic Haunting

I am

The mist at dawn
that sneaks through your

bead curtains

Around. All around
I would fill your nostrils
with sulphur and brimestone
,til you choke, choke

And die.

Three knocks on your door
Three taps on your wall

And your soul could be

Mine.

Lap 5 - round 13 - toilet

I saw the way you flushed
when I watered the bushes.
You are an open-mouthed man
but tongue-tie when the most gentle
touch of mud reaches your lap.
I know you long for my lips
to press against your cheek,
and you'd flush even more
when you realise that queens
have to wipe their cheeks too.

But toilet, you and I
live in different worlds,
blankets and towels
just aren't the same
and I'd rather sleep within
the cosiness of beds
than the coldness
of bathtubs.

Lap 6~Round 1~ 21 Syllables

She smiled
like a cat
with a mouse

Death
had always been
a necessary evil

Lap 6 Round 2 - Tanka

I am a burnt out
fire. No wood left to fuel
the flames. So I lie
in my bed of ash, sleeping
as I dream of consumed dust.

Lap 6 - Round 3 - Water

Wednesday nights

Wednesday night is largely quiet,
but for the occasional car ambling up the hill road,
and the intermittent rattle of wheelie bins
being put out to form a guard of honour
at the end of driveways.

I like to take out the bin when it is raining,
(not too heavily, but a persistant drizzle, or mist.)
I turn on the outside light so it glows a pale orange
and then I want to run like a child.
Observing the precipitating night, I contemplate
the water around the world. Filtering through
the gills of migrating salmon, carrying plankton
to the Basking Shark, quenching the thirst
of a gum tree in Tasmania.

And on Wednesday nights, when conditions are right,
the closeness of moisture on my skin and aqua
in my veins, makes me run the semi-dark lawn
like a gazelle.

LAp 6 - Round 4 - Free Verse

Stupidity cannot be cured
Though knowledge may prevent
The plethora of laughter
In your face

You act like you're a superstar
But dear, your monologues are hogwash
Save your grand entrance
For I've seen enough sitcom drama

Lap 6 - round 5 - Include the word "microscope"

There are leaves outside
that curl and shine
after the mid-day rain,

whether they
fall upon your sleeve
as a piece of tissue
from the sky;
lock inside of glass
beneath the microscope;
or struggle to rise forth
from the jarred earth
beside your sunless window ...

they are, and shall
forever be
the scattered pieces of art,
by the name of
life.

Lap 6~Round 6~ Wild Card (free verse)

Volcanic butterflies singe my insides
I am slowly burning
from the inside out
No longer able to deny this lust
A beast has awoken
Erupting through my veins
Desiring to devour your softness

Lap 6 Round 7 - cat

My white socks take me
wherever I want to go.
My master does not know.

I walk along the street,
crawling beneath cars,
then around the corner
and up the hill
where at night I can see stars.
I meet many strange creatures,
some of which I kill,
but the others I run away from
for I don't like their bark.
Then I take myself back home
through the winding roads.
I don't need a map, I know
exactly where to go.
Then in through the cat-flap
that's there just for me.
I give myself a wash, and smile,
for I'm home in time for tea.

Lap 6 - Round 8 - aabab rhyme

Busking

I busk with a faded read guitar. It's missing two strings
but I try my best to accompany when she sings,
we hitchhike between European states
I have a phone but nobody ever rings,
I just hope each day we have food on our plates.

Lap 6 - Round 9 - Pnq Member

The Keeper of Autumn

Every so often, I see her tiptoeing
Around cypress boughs
With garland of gray moss
Around her pallid face

Foliage is at its peak
Swirling and swinging
around her waist
As I watch her breathlessly

Budding into beauty

**For Melpomene

Lap 6 - round 10 - alliterative verse

Baboon butts
BANG
like bubblegum-bombs
before babies brawl
below the bellies

Lap 6~Round 11~5 Lines

Said good-bye to the moon
Hello to the sun
Never so happy this night was done
Dreams are so haunting, sleep cannot stay
I feel safe in the light, fearless in day