MOONLIGHT MUSES' POEMS AND SCORES #2

Lap 12
Round 10
Alliterative Verse

molten delicious dough melts
upon my tongue, tantalizing tingling senses -
swarming sugar sweetness
so satisfying.

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Round 11
5 Line

E�ry single time I�d
post a �postrophe, th� site
seems t� think I�m craz�d
�or if I ellipse into space�.
I�m hatin� on Microsoft Word.

Lap 12
Round 12
Halloween

Fruit on Halloween Sucks

A pumpkin glowing bright
for it's Halloween tonight

As darkness starts to creep
it's time for trick-or-treat

Ghosts in their finest sheet
and little devil looking neat

Time to make the rounds
first the Nelson's then the Brown's

Candy bags filled to the brim
pumpkin candle growing dim

House to house must move quick
final countdown starts to tick

Hurry, hurry just one more stop
no time to skip, dance or hop

Finally home with all the loot
dump the bag, damn another fruit !

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Round 13
Toilet

I woke this morning to
find you violated, your
face flushed yet
someone had their tongue
shoved down your throat.

They were dribbling and
uninvited, paws like a
pervert resting on your
cheeks -

I guess he'd never
tasted anything sweeter,
for his water was full
but he wanted
your saliva instead

Lap 13
Round 1
21 syllable

Juicy fruit left from lunch,
uncovered and oozing flavor
fruit flies suddenly exist

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Round 2
Tanka

A decade later...
we honor those over seas
who have died for us,
and those who still fight today -
we never forget.

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Round 3
Water

Rushing, reflecting
over stones I see
myself much clearer
in the roaring roll
of liquid foam.

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Round 4
Free Verse

Turning 40

Time, was once like
a leaky facet
dripping in seconds
that seemed to last forever.

As they followed me through
my teens years
they gained an impulse
to move quicker, as
with each year I grew
more and more eager to
visit the local bar
to twist my hips
and bend my elbow
to my lips

Yet now ...
nearing that 40th year
the sand slips far too quickly
and the moon is rarely
within my glimpse.

And in 4 days, 6 hour and
22 minutes another decade
will fall upon my lap
with a thump and grey will
perch in my hair -

unwanted

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Round 5
Microscope

Zantedeschia's curve round
my arms like slinkies and
my mouth swelled with blisters
every time our lips dance -

You always knew how to
breathe down my throat like
oxygen,

yet when placed
under a microscope I saw
it was you who was
making me sick and
irritating my heart.

Lap 13
Round 6

Wild Card
five lines

I am loving it,
the threads the score.
excitement happening on the site I adore..
but god,can this just be over
'Cause I am really starting to bore

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Round 7
Cats

She kneaded my palm with
her needle-like claws
while I traced my fingertips down her spine,
through the trailing maze
of her tiger striped coat -
her love was just as beautiful as mine.

Lap 13
Round 8
Aabab

Everyday I grunt and moan
at endless clothes that tend to roam
across my floor, they won't heed
a laundry rule they languish prone
and won't be washed despite the need.

Lap 13
Round 9
PNQ member

Scars bruise her mind
as memories old
and new collide.
Her heart a battle field
where tiny soldiers
burrow into the depths
of her dreams
waking her in cold sweats
and heart thumping screams.

Love is such a war ...
where blood runs deep

Lap 13
Round 10
Alliteration

Cairns,

Crikey Crocs cross crossings cross-eyed,
crickets create constant chirps while
causing cool cats to go crazy.
Course I love it here, cousin!
Cyclones cruising casually behind
closed curtains, cops cursing
crappy motorists, can't say
I've lived anywhere more chaotic.

Lap 13
round 11
five lines

I can't deny,
my hearts sinks all the time
like a rock thrown into the ocean..
blocks on my feet and I can't move on.
I miss us,too much.

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Round 12
Halloween

I cringed when the cornstalks
rustled in the breeze -
goosebumps rose upon my skin,
for I was trapped in a maze lit
with lanterns and crooked smiles.

An eerie silence filled the air
as chainsaws chuckled -
I quivered, gritting my teeth,
for it seemed as though someone
was breathing down my neck,
taunting me as shadows scintillated
around me like witches dancing
'round their cauldron tossing in
bits of flesh -

luckily though it was just
the spirit of Halloween.

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Round 13
Toilets

There's nothing quite so
obliviously relaxing, so
immeasurably important as
lounging with unexpected
ease, perched, sunk, toes
tiptoed from the floor, with
satisfied sighs escaping.

Lap 14
Round 1
21 syllables

Dashing in the door
out of breath,

can't wait to run
a marathon
on the main forums

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Round 2
Tanka

Somewhere 'tween their show
pony poetry, they write
void of emotion,
Sure, you can write of bitten
moons but why do you?

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Round 3

Water

we sat there,
for days upon days..

the sun made fun of us,
we looked tired,
and our mesmerizing
colors were starting to fade

we got weak,
and bowed down..
we accepted defeat..

you would never come,
no matter how much we loved you.

our colors,
didn't light you up..
like your color-less
presence would change us.

you took to long
to show up..

and as I took my last breath.
I died wishing I was a cactus.

passed away,
wishing..
that I could've
keep on living without you...

water.

Lap 14
Round 4
Free Verse

You were camouflaged that day,
latched upon that dumpster
that heaped full of garbage -
as I nearly placed my fingertips
upon your rigid back like braille,
blinded by your presence.

I leaped towards the skies
just as you would 'tween lily pads,
which made me wonder suddenly
why you weren't in that mossy pond
where you belonged to begin with -

now I'm haunted.

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Round 5
Microscope

Oh microscope,
your shining exterior
captures my mind, trapped
in the possibility of endless
germy discovery.

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Round 6
Wild card (21 syllable)

Autumn leaves
scream with vivid
colors,then flutter
peacefully to the ground
to their death

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Round 7
Cats

You told me your cousins kitten
had scratched you, skin covered
in claw marks like you'd
battled barbed wire -
I thought I could play naughts
and crosses on your back -
but xxx would always win.
I guess cats wear nail polish too.

Lap 14
Round 8

aabab

I only sunk into quick sand,
when you abstained from holding my hand
I yelled,you made fun of my fear..
you left me to die.
whilst being so near

Lap 14
Round 9
PnQ Member

She's a reflection of who I am,
guided by a moonlit muse
who leads her along the paths
of mythology and flowers,
while I too speak of metaphors
stuffed with symbolism.

Often we find ourselves
trapped within the art of baking,
nibbling on scones late in the night -
our aprons chalked with colors
that speak of our passions.

We may be miles apart,
but I'm often finding you within
every day life.

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Round 10
Alliterative

Shocked
by the charming shimmy
of the nonchalant nurse.
Should've sniffed it out
sooner, smart doesn't
sacrifice sexy.

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Round 11
five lines

My finger traces
X's AND O's upon your back,

9 squares, 4 lines,
a game in life I know
I will always win

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Round 12
Halloween

It was October, I was 7

He wore red & white like a
candy cane and it felt like Christmas,
I sat 'pon his lap and wished
for a pony and he said he'd
teach me how to ride...

They men in blue said his lips were
wrinkled like salty plums but
between the beard and a
jack-o-lantern smile, I never knew.

Halloween is 356 days a year
and reminds me of a
nightmare on elm street.

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Round 13
Toilet

Toilet

I hate you,
I hate the way
she strives to keep you shinning
and forgets that I have to eat..
I hate the way,
she bows down to her knees
in front of you,
but never does it for me.

I just hate you toilet,
they spend more money on you.
than they do on me..

Lap 15
Round 1
21 Syllables

I no longer can write -
for I feel like a candle once scented
yet now, all burnt out.

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Round 2
Tanka

Behind the glass wall
two chipped teeth emerge
startling yellow
puckered lips on metal rod
and a thirsty brown hamster

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Round 3
water

61 Days

Today my mother
soaked cotton balls
to wet our lips. I could
see the moisture form in the
corner of her eyes as the
last ounce of water took
but only a moment to soak
in the moisture.The sun
beamed so wildly those weeks
that you could smell the grass
burning when the winds leaped
across the fields.

Each night Ma and Pa
bowed their heads at
the dinner table, and I knew
the silence that echoed
from the four walls of our tiny
house meant they were praying
for water again.

And each night I had dreams
of tiny rain drops bouncing
into Mother's little yellow teapot,
her hands on her hips, she'd be
fussing "who gone and taken my teapot
outside again" and all us youngins
would giggle and say "not me Ma"

And on the 61st day the clouds
came, bouncing and dodging in
and out of the sun. Then the winds
grew and grew and our breathes died.
I remember Ma in her red dress and
yellow apron twirling around and around,
her shoes flinging mud with each twirl.
And Papa, I never saw him so happy.

The rain pounced into the night
and on through the next day. But
we never complained. And Ma
never told us once to wash our feet.

And since that year, I have always
hated the taste of dust
in my mouth.

Lap 15
Round4
Free Verse

Eighteen.

With the winters
that come and
builds snow women 'pon
your shoulder blades,
I wish you the strength
of the muses -

May you wear comedy
as lips wear lipstick,

May Calliope bless
your fingertips with
that of a pen,

and shall you write
your poetry as though
it's history

for one day it will
be your own.

Lap 15
Round 5

Microscope,

"you'll see cells,
and beautiful colors"
she told me.

she kept me after school,
after class..
and on lunch time too.

Still I couldn't cope..
the science teacher
finally accepted..

that I couldn't
work a microscope

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Round 6
Wild Card - 21 syllables

It will be a memorable moment
when confetti falls,
moonlight muses prevail.

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Round 7
Cats

If I had whiskers
I'd brush them against your
skin, catch the tiny hairs that
sense disturbance,
tuna breath catapulted
directly to your nostrils...
eau du chat, eau du awesome.

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Round 8
aabab rhyme scheme

Wave upon wave lap at the shore
then all too suddenly rain starts to pour
we gather our blankets and run beneath a tree
as thunder shouts out in a thunderous roar
the lake turning into a raging, roaring sea

Lap 15
Round 9
PnQ Member

Nor.

Sometimes I imagine her
picking seeds from a watermelon,
her eyes lit like a child and yet
she never drips 'pon her ivory dress
that contrasts with her skin like
cadburry top-deck chocolate.
Somewhere between a sand storm
of studies she writes of
peppermint on her tongue and
smiles with the thought of
yin and yang resting
'pon her shoulder.

Lap 15
Round 10

Alliterative

sun,soon,sky
whatever,whenever or why..
when will we know who is the boss,
cause I am tired,tripped and through
with this marathon
win,whine or lose..
I'm still drinking,dancing
and celebrating with booze