Day 7: Marathon - Like the Flowing River

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 3

Themes/topic:
1. Six line poem
2. Birds
3. Poem based on a film title
4. Tanka (syllable 5,7,5,7,7)
5. abab rhyming scheme, 2 or 3 verses
6. Winter
7. Include the word 'Astronaut'
8. Wild card (pick any theme)
9. Dreams
10. About/to a PnQ member
11. Funny/satirical poem
12. 28-30 syllables
13. Medicine

LTFR takes the life line

"Lap 1- Prom. 1 "

6 lines poem

You thought somebody else drew a smile on my face,
it ruined the egoist peace you've dished yourself in.
So to slay me gently, you shot me with words
that hit past my heart faster than bullets,
saying you never loved me; so I trimmed the smile
with a poem that spoke of you being the somebody else.

Lap 1 Prompt 2
Title: Birds

The spring birds
set camp outside my window
and chirp their ballads
that wake me up
each morning.

Oh, how I love the spring.

Lap 1 Prompt 3. Poem based on a film title

Do not ask me about a hill of beans,
that was Bogie's line not mine;
and surly you know that I believe
that friendships are always better
when made in comaraderie
against a common cause.
So take me back to Casablanca
buy me a drink at Rick's place,
I will never be sorry to say for once
"Here's looking at you, kid."

Lap 1 #4

Tanka Time

Time spent is nothing
because this time has been spent
Time is not yet here
until it is the present
tense is relevant to then.

Lap 1 Prompt 5
abab rhyming scheme, 2 or 3 verses

I remember when we first met,
we were only kids in school.
We'd chat until the sunset.
I fell in love like such a fool.

First, young love that gave us a rush,
I quickly handed you my heart.
I told my family it was more than a crush,
and that we will stay strong and never part.

Lap 1, prompt 6

Winter

I've lit all the suns
I stole through
the past summers,
but none were big enough
to warm my heart
from the everlasting winter
you brought to my life.

Lap 1 7. Include the word 'Astronaut'

My daughter always wanted to be
an astronaut flying past the sky
but like all dreams it passed her by
instead she learned to make a movie.

Lap 1 Prompt 8
Title: A Dream? A Nightmare?

At the darkest hour,
I fall asleep in my bed.
The comfort of resting
in a deep, fantasy sleep.

Suddenly -
I find myself awake,
running to the door.
I hear someone screaming,
and a deafening sound.

I open the door,
a familiar stranger,
begins to choke me.
Helpless, I try to defend myself,
but I fail in every level.

I lose conscious and hit the ground.
I must be dreaming and lost in sleep...
Funny how dreams can turn to nightmares.

Lap 1 #9

Do Androids Dream?

I believe they will
because it would only
be human to imagine
one dreamed a Creator,
or Divine to be humble
enough to care.

Lap 1 prompt 10. About/to a PnQ member

Colm
has made
history
in P N Q
by making others
hysterical poets
running fast as the white queen
just to keep pace with other clubs
who breeze through challenges like Alice:
over-achievers in the looking glass.

Lap 1 Prompt 11

I heard that if you love
someone, you should
set her or him free.
And if he or she comes back,
then what?
Well,
you have a stalker!

Lap 1 Prompt 12 28-30 syllables
Title:

Silence, yet my mind is blasting
with uncontrollable thoughts.
Your negative cologne reeks
and I can't concentrate.

Lap one prompt 13. Medicine

Give me the cure to writer's block
and I will clog the internet
with more trivial verse and prose
than the system sould handle.
If terrorists really want to
bring down the states
they should fund literary research
for the medicine that opens the mind.

Lap 2 Prompt 1
Title: Love at First Sight

Your hazel eyes light up
every time you see me
and I can't help but smile
like a young adolescent
who is in love (or lust?)
for the very first time.

Lap 2 Prompt 2. Birds

Like notes on a score
birds line the power line
playing their own music
according to a secret rhyme.

Lap 2 Prompt 3 (Films: Twilight Saga)
Title: New Moon

With every full moon,
I stared at my window
to see you running around
freely and effortlessly,
and I was amazed.

I longed to join you
and climb the tall trees.
I wanted to chase you
the same way you chased me.
I want our shadows to intertwine
and for us to live recklessly forever

LAP2 PROMPT 4

Valentine Tanka

If you have read this
imagine how hearts have beat
how many will beat
with every breath given
then what world wide love could do

LAp2 promt 5

abab 2 verses

I wish there was more to be said
like more than, it could no longer be
the way we cared, the way we loved,
like the times you were in love with me

but there is nothing more to be shared
and I guess there is nothing even left
but those sad whispers left unheard
and a a pinch of salt to add to my hurt

Lap 2 Prompt 6. Winter

Leaves that swirl in the wind
settle to my yard like tea in a cup
would I read my destiny in them
it would involve raking them up
winter is the time of year
that leaves me yearning to interrupt.

Lap 2 Prompt 7
Title: Moon Walk

A nomad, he traveled
miles of distances
and never stopped.

He was never impressed
enough to stay for a day
and spend time with me.

He walked all over me just
like an astronaut on the moon.

Lap 2 prompt 8

Universe Tanka

space is infinite
none can not be created
nor none can be destroyed
matter always was, always
will be moving to a place

Lap 2, Prompt 9. Dreams

Nightly we are together
lost within my sheets
never is she there when
I awaken in the morning.

What dreams may come
I understand the peril
yet always I return
to this siren in my mind.

Lap 2 Prompt 10
Title: The Godfather

He has given me offers
that I could never refuse
because he stands by my side,
and would take a bullet for me.

Wise, friendly, intelligent,
a man of stability and warmth.
He takes care of us as though
we are his flesh and blood.

To our dear Godfather,
we will give you cannolis
and pamper you to the fullest.
Thank you for everything.

Lap2 promt 11 funny

Last night was awful,
and I'm sorry I've hurt you
the way I have, baby,
how could I've known
that the call I've heard
was not yours, but from a dog
that jumped on my bed,
Well..Who told you to keep on barking
in my face in the first place..

Lap 2 prompt 12. 28-30 syllables

Anytime we get together
it always comes to the same
we spend our time in the bottle
and dreams go down the drain

Lap 2 promt 13 medicine

Medicine

You're my heartache
my injuries, my pain,
every sore muscle
in my body.
You are my disease,
And how I'm sick of you
Being my cure,
my relief,
my medicine.

Lap 3 Prompt 1. Six line poem

Anytime you get the urge
to call me on my cell
remember that it is for
my convenience not yours
so if you do not get me, friend,
try again when the sun is up.

Lap 3 Prompt 2
Title: A Little Birdie

A little birdie told me
that you've been frolicking
with someone else.

I'm hoping that it is
just rumors that the birds
tend to occasionally chirp.

Lap 3, Promt 3 movie title

Brave heart

She's faught the dark nights
With her sparkling eyes,
That lit her way through.
Until days were white
and her flame was off.
then she fought bright days
with her black heart.
That lost her, her way through...

Lap: 3 Prompt 4 (tanka)
Title: Flirtation

Flirty eyes staring
across the big crowded room.
We face each other,
his eloquent words float out
of his captivating lips.

Lap 3 Prompt 5. abab rhyming scheme, 2 or 3 verses

Don't go down the mulberry path
for therein lurks the copper head
you cannot hope to bear his wrath
no would you want the tears I'll shed.

LAp 3 promt 6

Winter

I've lit all the sun
I could draw through
the past summers,
but none were big enough
to warm my heart
from the everlasting winter
you brought to my life.

Lap 3 prompt 8

Reluctant Astronaut

I will never be an astronaut
or get out of this world alive
Don't expect me to be what I'm not
then I will probably survive
Give me a solid place to stand
because gravity can be unkind
I have come to understand

Lap 3 Promt 8 Wild card

I know winters bound you,
while fires burn up your heart.
I can see the storms printed
on your forehead, and the
mad waves in your eyes.

The aches of your soul,
the soreness on your lips,
the hurt you hide.

I see it every night
laying on your bed;
it slays me deep inside.