MOONLIGHT MUSES' POEMS AND SCORES #3

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* CONTEST STARTS 00:00 3 OCT PNQ TIME

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MM'S TEAM LIST AND SCORES: 1278 (190 bonus points from HHs)
Melpomene: 9+8+8+8+8+8+7+8+9+9+8+8+9+8
Lu: 9+7+8+7+10+9+9+8+8+8+8+8+7+9+8+8+7+8+
9+7+7
Courageous Dreamer: 8+8+7+8+7+8+8+8+8+6+9+8+8+9+8+7+8+6+7
Britt: 7+7+8+8+7+6+7+8+7+6+7+8+8+6+9+7+
8+7+8+8+8+7+7+7+0+7+7
Yaki: 8+7+7+7+7+7+8+7+7+8+7+7+8+9+7+7+9+8+7
+7
Nevi Versals: 7+8+8+7+9+9+6
Narphangu: 9+8+8+8+7+9+8+8+9+9+9+9+9+0+9+9+8+7
RunningWithTheWind [MaryAnne]: 0
AJ: 8+7+9+7+7+7+6+8+8+7+6+9+8+8
Chelsey: 3+7+7

THE THEMES FOR EACH ROUND

THE POINT SYSTEM
* Each submitted poem, if it complies with the theme of the round, will earn an easy 5 points straight away for your team, regardless of quality.
* Poems will also be roughly judged for quality- a maximum of 5 points can be earned for a high quality poem (giving a maximum total of 10).

Lap 16
Round 8
Aabab Rhyme

I wandered in the front door,
and as you greeted me, you made my heart soar,
slobbering my arm with love,
needless to say I wanted more -
yet later you'll nestle next to me like a dove.

Lap 16
Round 9
PnQ Member

Your face brightens every post.
Always eager to throw a happy word.
Kindness must be in your water.
I think you're pretty swell.

.

Lap 16
Round 10
Alliterative verse

Sunny Saturdays sitting
sipping sunshine, swallowing silver
spoonfuls of speckled rays
oh how so many silly thoughts
run through a sleepy mind
slipping into 12:09 AM

Lap 16
Round 11
5 Lines

He lights soy candles -
Strawberries and champagne litter the air
Yet I am sick of the sweetness, the way it
embeds itself within my lungs,
a reminder of his masked personality.

Lap 16
Round 12
Halloween.

The costumes,
the candy..
honestly,
pumpkins never terrified me.

and,
I can"t help
but hestitate..

how can I possibly,
write about something..

I don't even celebrate.

Lap 16
Round 13
Toilet!

It was a bathroom the size of a closet,
that had the most unpleasant smell ever -
seems as though some guys aimed
and missed and now the bathroom
smells like piss.

Lap 17
Round 1
21 Syllables

Midnight college students
singing Hakuna Matata...

Never sounded so off key.

Lap 17
Round 2
Tanka

Beautiful country
elms and pine, so beautiful
high snow capped mountains,
streams running beneath the ice
Oh! Canada I love you

Lap 17
Round 3
Water

Sometimes I fish around in you,
catching goldfish for fun and feeling
your wet beads drip down my fingertips
to my wrist where you would
always dry and leave me with warmth.

Lap 17
Round 4
free verse

we came in at the speed of light..
you thought we had given up,right?
so,this is for you to know..
we are not something you wanna mess with..
lay your cards,place your bet.
posting 4 poems a minute..
we even killed the internet!

Lap 17
Round 5
Microscope!

Oh, microscope
what's the matter with you?
You should have found a
cure for cancer by now!

Lap 17
Round 6
Wild Card (21 syllables)

Disney soothes all wounds
until college arrives.
just found so many dirty references.

Lap 17
Round 7
cats

Upon the ledge
he stretches like
a yo-yo,
nails clawing the air
in-out-in-out

Until a motion
catches his eyes
and he's off like a
jet to snatch his prey

Oh pretty birdy,

fly !

Lap 17
Round 8
aabab

It is said eyes are the window to your soul
one can see if you are not whole
or feeling pain nobody should know
though others learn outside your control
no matter what emotion you show.

Lap 17
Round 9
PnQ Member

Cynnie (Mera Luna)

She is one of a kind,
a fly agaric sleeping 'tween
common mushrooms who
admire her artistic dazzle
while she nestles 'neath the
moon in a polka-dot dress.

Lap 17
Round 10

Alliterive verse

pretty eyes,pretty hair
perfection,
perseverance,practice,
perspective..
never ever have I
seen this site so active.

Lap 17
Round 11
Nature

Can you hear the crunching
of the already changing leaves
as they're stomped on
by the creatures of the morning?

A later than usual sunrise
pours in through my window,
a beautiful alarm clock set too early
but just the right time to experience
all there is to offer.

Lap 17
Round 12
Seven Lines

My eyes are of poison ivy
itching 'til I can no longer see -
for they are as dull as an
unsharpened pencil -
thoughts trailing like a rash
of a thousand infected poems,
which now hold no meaning.

Lap 17
Round 13
Magic

Many times I sat
hands cradling a flaccid
spine, eyes fluttering
from flittering line to line.
Many times I call you
truth, and many times
it was within your
soft pages, that the
ink took root in my
mind, and pulled me
into new existence.
Always, I call you
magic.

Lap 18
Round 1
Grandmothers

I remember fairy lights laid
dormant in their box last year,
We pecked your trifle like sparrows,
port jelly sliding off my plate
and onto my coffee coloured dress
staining - like your memory
tye died 'pon my heart.

The rosary curled within' your hands
like a homeless clutching 10 cents,
the beads designed your skin black
and blue.

All this time I've never written
a poem for you, but Inhobbok Hafna,
and I'll find you in the mirror tomorrow.

Inhobbok Hafna = I love you in Maltese (my background)

Lap 18
Round 2
17 Syllables

Pieces of paper
are strewn everywhere
in this unorganized mess.

Lap 18
Round 3

aabba rhyme

you make,me stumble
curse,whisper and mumble
but I love you so much..
its impossible not to do such..
donuts.

Lap 18
Round 4
Free Verse

I'm as stunned as a fly,
shook up and tossed
on the ground -
for it seems I mean
nothing to you,
and never will.

Lap 18

ROUND 5 - SQUIRREL

Fluffy, floofy
bouncy, flouncy
their tails go poof! poof!
They hide at night
in their nest of nuts
and pack all throughout the day.

Lap 18
Round 6
Wild Card

You're always leaving a rash
like mosquitos, and I worry you too
will spread disease through
bites and burrow in sand dunes
like crabs.

Lap 18
Round 7

Insect

I wish I could slap you in the face,
the way I often slap flies,
you deserve nothing less..
just like them
you are annoying,useless
and love to hang around shit..

Lap 18

ROUND 8 ACROSTIC:

Abby, abby, she is so
beautiful, swishing around
beautifully in that lofty red skirt
yielding her power around.

Lap 18
Round 9
Mythological being

You'd graze by the water
chewing on a daffodil or two -
a show pony whos mayne
flowed like icicles 'pon
the splintered fur of a neck,
luring travels with beauty and
seducing children like pedofiles.

Lap 18
Round 10

Cooking

it will never work,
they told us...

but they did not
Realize,

that I loved cooking
and he loved doing dishes

it was perfect

Lap 18
ROUND 11:
Nature

Funny how the sounds of seasons
so quickly change -
in my mind fall can only be associated with
crunching twigs and leaves
and the sound of rolling pumpkins.

Lap 18
Round 12
Seven lines

Room's a gaping mess
of cereal boxes left
to the flies, and clothes
that would rather stamp their
cotton feet in tantrum
then go quietly off
to a wardrobe bed.

Lap 18
Round 13
Magic

I was tattooed by a magic wand,
patterns like scrap book paper were
inked 'pon my cheeks and
I began to ponder if I was cursed
with zig-zags trailing my spine,
tea leaves tangled within my hair
or was I blessed with a
uniqueness of my own.

Lap 19
Round 1
Grand mothers

what is there,
to say about someone
who passed away..
when I was a three-month-old

how can I put into poetry,
the spirit of someone
who's soul is said to
be the one of a fighter..

battled cancer
for ten whole years,
and didn't get the chance
to me see me grow.

Lap 19
ROUND 2: 17 Syllables

These syllables
give me an automatic zero
I cannot count!

Lap 19
Round 3
Aabab

Aabab

In the midst of foggy skies,
there swarms a different group that flies
known well to those who gawk at birds,
the whizzing specks known as "horseflies"
They'll come at you in endless heards.

Lap 19
Round 4
Free

We stumble -
Like this pen.
Unaware that with autumn
comes winter
and fading ink will no longer bleed
but rather -vanish-
into the nothingness you call "air"

They wonder 'bout sunken moons;
Perch 'gainst twisting trees.
And why I write of ladybeetles 'pon your arms
Sheltering I from sharpened breeze.

Though midnight speaks of
Twisted tongues
With shards of glass
'neath her knees.

While warmth burns for the umpteenth time
as he echo's "sleep" to my dreams.

With wind chimes tangled 'pon his breath
And sheltered lullaby -
Twas moonlight theft

Lap 19
ROUND 5 - SQUIRREL

I once witnessed
a squirrel
run away with a golf ball
that I hit, obviously terribly.
I chucked my club at the tree
and my golf ball was returned -
two bite marks now symbolize
how terrible I am
at clubbed sports.

Lap 19
Round 6

Wild card (free)

Still we wait,
Mel and I.
but it seems Temps over slept..
somebody please go tell her
that we cannot lose this bet..
if TC wins,they will gloat..
and I might go crazy
and jump from a boat