MOONLIGHT MUSES POEMS AND SCORES # 4

Lap 27
Round 2
17 syllables

She's a sweet temptation
doused in pink passion fruit
and honeysuckle.

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Round 3
aabba

my mind a total blank
me oh my who should I thank
Miss Abby I quite think
oh golly I need a drink
no more poems can I crank

Lap 27
Round 4
Free

Time gathers in my hair
and scurries around my waist
a few wrinkles around the eyes
and the soothing comfort of
Rub A5-35 on rainy nights

Lap 27
Round 5
Squirrel

I love to watch you,
sneaking around the parks,
stuffing your cheeks full of nuts
and seeds, to only go burrow
them deep in the ground that
sprout beautiful trees -
you create nature.

Lap 27
Round 6
Wild Card - nature

The texture of your spine
brushes my fingertips and I am
caught somewhere 'tween
the knot in your shoulder blades
the hole in your chest and
brush of your rough hair
skimming my forehead.

Lap 27
Round 7
Insect

Creepy crawler on the wall
big cob web stretching tall
eight long legs, with big brown eyes
big black bugs fall from the skies

Oh how I hate bugs !

Lap 27
Round 8
Acrostic

Yeah, she may talk
All the time, yet she always
Keeps us laughing
In the dullest of times.

Lap 27
Round 9
Superhero

Captain America

I've always wondered if Captain America
would take the hand of an Australia girl -
sweep her away with his guns and
protect her with his blue and red shield.
I'd tattoo the US flag on my heart
if I knew he'd tattoo my cheeks with his lips.

Lap 27
Round 10
Cooking

BBQ hamburgers on the grill
all that fat, enough to kill

Pie and tarts, sweet cream pie
so much sugar, I'll surely die

Momma always said
a good wife can
throw together a great
feast in a matter of minutes

little did she know
how much my man can eat

Lap 27
Round 11
Nature

[Haiku]

She has orange wings
dotted around the edges -
she is the Monarch.

Lap 27
Round 12
7 lines

My fingers are worn with the
unfinished concepts of an artist,
nail dirtied with charcoal and
paint sprawling up my wrist in
unforgiving shapes -
Sometimes I sketch my thoughts on
my palms and let them wash away.

Lap 27
Round 13
Magic

Every moment,
another breath born
yet another breath lost

we are all just
floating images
that haven't become
a part of -
the past yet

And like magic
we'll all someday disappear

Lap 28
Round 1
Grandmothers

I'd find you in the kitchen
dressed in your nightgown
every morning with sleepy eyes,
listening to the kettle hissing
upon the burner as the sun
peeked through the window.

You'd watch the birds
nibbling on bread crumbs
'til your toast was finished,
pour yourself a cup of coffee,
and sit down to read the
daily newspaper.

Lap 28
Round 2
17 Syllables

She spluttered
cigarette smoke in
a jazz musician bar -
now eighteen.

Lap 28
Round 3
aabba rhyme

Half past midnight going insane
my hands asleep from all the pain
as the marathon end draws near
I think I will wipe a final tear
Abby's challenges rock, ain't she a dear

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Round 4
Free Verse

We become snapping turtles
at times with vile words
upon our tongues,
yet forced to live together
for we are connected in blood.

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Round 5
Squirrels

Somewhere at a
black jack table they're
gambling with their nuts -
acorns spread 'cross
green grassed felt
and lady chipmunks
squealing at their side.

I am starting to think
men are like squirrels.

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Round 6
Wild card (17 syllable)

Dancing in the cold rain
soaking wet
but who cares
because we're in love

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Round 7
Insect

She landed next to me,
yet stood as still as a statue
freezing my thoughts like ice cubes,
teaching me patience
and offering peace,
never moving 'til her heart
connected with her mind.

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Round 8
Acrostic

Just because you're the eldest
of four doesn't mean we wont kick your ass!
Steven will pull on your curls while i'll
Eventually manage to hide all your golf balls..
Perhaps Kevin will glue your shorts to a chair again?
How we love you, our kangaroo Joey!

Lap 28
Round 9
Superhero OR mythological being OR movie star -

He swoops at the speed of light
snatching evil by the collar,
more powerful than a locomotive
crushing vehicles with his bare hands
with the strength of a hundred men

He is superman - the greatest superhero
of my time

Lap 28
Round 10
Cooking

I'm always dusted with flour head to toe,
ingredients scattered everywhere,
and somehow, at the end of the night
everything is plastered to my arms.

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Round 11
Nature

Sometimes she creeps
within my window - shadows
stalking, friend or foe?
she is the phantom that
falls from mother nature,
performing me a
midnight picture show.

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Round 12
Seven lines

The end is drawing near
as moments tick on by
there is a part of me
that silently wishes
for another day to this marathon
yet I dare not speak -
for the M&Ms will have my head

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Round 13
Magic

she tossed a picture of him
into a burning vanilla flame,
while kissing the heart shaped locket
around her neck, 'til ashes formed -
dissolving him from her life.