Day 7: Marathon - Free Spirits

Rules/guidelines:

- Use this thread to post your poems. Don't post anything other than poems in it please. Only start when the hour starts: Poems posted before or after the hour (PnQ time) won't be counted!

- You can only take one option/time slot.

- You cannot post a poem until 2 OTHERS member have posted before you. Work it out in your clubs what poems you are doing each.
NOTE: If you want to use your simplify lifeline this round, you can use it so that only 1 person has to post before you, so that way the contest will be achievable with 2 people. Obviously though the more people you have the easier/faster it is, (so long as everybody is organised!)

- 1 point per poem (out of 50 points total, bonus points for more than 50 poems) 50pts for average quality, 100pts total (before bonuses)

- Use the 30 or so minutes before to organise who will take what poem and get writing, ready to hit the ground running when the hour starts. Organisation and teamwork is key here.

Once you have done one lap, you start again! Note: Start at prompt 1 and go in order. If you are doing prompt 3, you can't post that until somebody has posted prompt 2.

*Updated times for the challenge (please pick one to use):

Option 1: Sunday, 7.15-8.15 PnQ time
Option 2: Sunday, 15.00-16.00 PnQ time
Option 3 (NEW): Sunday, 19.00-20.00 PnQ time
Option 4: Monday, 19.00-20.00 PnQ time

Prompts/themes: OPTION 4

Themes/topic:
1. Haiku
2. 8 line poem
3. Poem based on a movie/film title
4. Tanka (syllable 5,7,5,7,7)
5. abab cdcd rhyming scheme, 2 verses
6. Spring
7. Include the word 'Perfume'
8. Free Verse
9. Wild card (pick any theme)
10. About/to a celebrity
11. Political/patriotic poem
12. 30-32 syllables
13. Technology

Hi Colm- I might be absent for some of this challenge, so I'm posting for the group that we are going to be using a lifeline -

When do we start? In Uk time please? :s

Lap: 1....prompt: 1. Haiku

Title: Savoured Dance

Patient; sits speckled
frog,.. as dancing dragonflies
perform their last dance.

Lap: 1 ... Prompt 2. 8 line poem.

Deep in the darkness of abandoned woods,
I hear a voice softly whispering my name.
I feel a cold breeze tickle my neck,
making each hair stand on its end.
I see red eyes peeking sharply through
the rustling hedges in the distance.
I taste fear on my tongue and lose my breath
as I decide to run for my life.

Lap 1... Prompt: 3. Poem based on a movie/film title

Title: Interview with a Vampire
Reversed Haynaku

Warm to the
throat, I
drink...

like raspberry liquor,
Yet; human
bottle.

A frenzy begins,
heart beats
irregular.

Drained of life,
Your body
falls...

taking your breath,
murdered my
suffering.

Lap 1... prompt 4... Tanka

Children's laughter roars,
chasing neighbours through the park
ecstatic with joy.
Innocent minds run care free
with freedom of sweet childhood.

Lap:1 prompt: 5. abab cdcd rhyming scheme, 2 verses

Title: Home

From grace i fall,
to the fire of the devil...
crashed into a charcoal wall.
Wings of an angel battered...and I revel.

Dripping with sweat and blood,
hell raised fires cleansed my soul...
Homes calling, ignorance plays 'cause I could.
Down here in the grunge is where I feel whole.

Lap 1 - prompt 6 - spring

Sun beaming atop the snow covered hill
Peering through clear glass windows and
Resulting in a glow of warmth.
Ingiting the forests with their colour again as
New flowers bloom and leaves begin to return
Growing in the nurture of their spring.

Lap:1 prompt: 7. Include the word 'Perfume'

Title: love hold

Eyes lock.
Butterflies wake.
Flushed in cerise; I smile.
Your embrace holds me to you like
gravity, drawing me
closer to your
hearts core.

Gracefully choking on your perfumed skin, that's raising my temperature.
Sweet beads run down your skin...like the condensation on our steamed window. I'm in love tonight.

Lap 1 prompt 8 free verse

Months have passed by as slow as a broken watch
and each second that doesn't tick
takes another drop of blood
from your leaking heart.

Imagine if this blood could be replaced
with the tears drops from the eyes
of those who will weep for you.

Imagine if love could cure and heal
the heart from all diseases
that this organ may be faced with.

But alas I've wished so many nights
and prayed to find a miracle
which never seems to find us.

All that we have is the precious seconds
that I can no longer hear tick by
but instead feel them slip away
from the inside of our hearts.

Lap:1 prompt: 9. Wild card (pick any theme)

Title: Passionate Home

Once the cradle falls, its your
niche in life... that separates
crowds of duplicates from the
emerging unique...

Affirmations cause pulsating ink to ice skate.

Frozen blank page, as pens grace
recreates the flow of an
eight. Signifying my souls
engraved birth mark; vast.

Spiritually connected with
pen... flowing
ink.
Resurrecting
irritable emotions,
trusting thy heart.

"Almond lingers, whilst
nectar pours; my pink blossom
yielding to stings."

Thankful that nature
humbles and en-riches an
inquisitive mind.
Nurturing a beaten heart,
giving awe to projection.

I
share a
passion with
others. Poems
string us together;
silk spun lines with letters
inked from the heart. Restricted
boundaries penned a need to fight,
love for freedom and all alike... Our
eternal warmth of a family home.

Lap 1: prompt 10 .. about/to celeb

Dear Marishka Hartigay

You chose your career because you believed you belonged on this path.
Your talent has lead you to many different routes that have helped you to become who you now are.
But your latest appearance has won over the hearts
of countries far and wide. Behind the scenes when your character gets put in the wardrobe and your own shoes are put on, you carry the heart that you have grown to know and made others grow to love.
Through acting out scenes of helping innocent victims who have been subjected to sexual crimes, you have developed empathy for real victims worldwide.
And with this empathy you got creative and set up a chairty known as The Joyful Heart Foundation which makes jewellery imprinted with the word Fearlessness to represent the bravery of the souls who have fought for survival.
You have taken your work home with you and it has become a bigger part of your life than you ever would have imagined it to be.

And this is why you have won the hearts of so many people who watch you on screen and admire the beautiful and compassionate person that you are.

Lap:1 prompt: 11. Political/patriotic poem

Title: 3 Lions

king of the Jungle.
A heart that's strong, to
protect female pride...

a cub makes three.

Lap 1 Prompt 12 ; 30-32 syllables

Saying goodbye to you
will be the hardest words
I will ever have to say
and be the the coldest tears
I will ever have to cry.

Lap:1 prompt:13. Technology

Title: Valentine Call of Duty

By hand i write verses,
that all come from my heart.
Technology ruined romance,
i've gone back to the start.

My cheeks are ruby
red. My eyes are cloud free sky
blue. There is something
i must confirm, before my
heart takes a funny love turn.

Well its valentines cheese V's the x-box...
and he thinks I'm a moaning sod.
But new lacy panties and fish net sox...
he waves babye to online C.o.D.