INDEPENDANT TEAM #1

THIS THREAD IS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TAKE PART, BUT DOES NOT BELONG TO A CLUB.

Prompts will be added tomorrow morning, and then edited each morning with a new set!

Remember, there are no rules on consecutive posting; members can post as many poems as they can, but double posts by another member for the same prompt, will not be counted.

ALL POEMS MUST BE NEWLY WRITTEN, AND MUST FOLLOW THE ORDER OF THE PROMPTS.
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PROMPTS:

1. Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

2. Wild Card

3. category : Life

4. Must include the words of a club name on this site. Yes, you can use the same club twice

5. Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

6. Alcohol or Drugs

7. 10-13 lines

8. Must include a metaphor or similie

GO!

I'm doing one about senses so next independent to sign in take the next one..let the battle begin :)

Edit. Okay.

Blank Eyes

Memories stored in a box
of denial
for which there is no key
and yet...

THE PRESENT:-

Anguish bleeds
from blank eyes
held within
sockets void of tears
for so long,
veiling sorrow.

THE PAST:-

Fingers of disbelief
trace cold mahogany
not once but thrice
while numb mind
processes thoughts
to limbo.

THE MOMENT:-

Realisation
knocks on door of reality
shattering long silence
but...
there's no one home
just me!

THE FUTURE:-

....................
....................
....................

They say time heals all?
I'd love to meet "They"
so I could smack them in the face
and call them liars...

2. Funny

With a mask and a scream,
The kiddo across the street,
Came speeding like flash
( The super hero, oh my! )

The ladies went, wow!
The girlies, oh my!

And his mom: Peter!!!
Give me my bra.

# 3 Formed

Life (Tetractys)

Birth
new life
clock ticking
count down begins
years go by too soon and then you are gone.

4.

Mexico, your lands are vast.
Too vast for me to know them.
Though your rivers, I adore
In them I would love to swim
To revive the old good times
When grandma, mom, and dad
Grandpa, my uncles, and my aunts
Helped me explore part of your lands.

#5

Echoes
from a past forgotten
well...almost!

Voices laid to rest
come back...whispering...
taunting...

ears once closed
now...
listen

At last I cry...

6. Religion

Lord, I am here, here with you.
In the good and in the bad,
You guide me through;
Through storms to sunny days
To sunny days to darker days
But lord, I am here, here with you
Just like you are here, here with me.

#7 First time eating cheese (I'm a Liar!)

I CAN'T write about cheese
PLEASE!!!

I just can't study it
you see

for...
it vanishes the moment
it get's on my plate
a Saturday night movie
it's my only date!

On a Sunday morning
I get down on bended knee
full of remorse and this is my plea
"please dear lord I cry with cheddar lips
please oh please save my expanding hips"!

8.

A pillow in the window
watches a widow
walking in the snow
as if her sorrow
got hardfrozen in her heart,

with the blizzard cold.

#1 Sight

The Eye in the Sky (Senryu)

Spherical vision
observation city lurks:
silently watching.

Round 2,

#2

tick tock, the clock in the kitchen said,
tick tock, the clock in the living room said
tick tock, the clock in the bedroom said

tick hushhh..

the man in the house said.

Round 2

# 3 Formed

Winter Bride (Haiku)

Sparking gown of snow,
veil spun from the finest silk:
icicles her crown.

4._

USA, USA

my parents taught me,
that that which is mine
I must take care,
but that which isn't mine
I must take extra care.

Round 2 #5

Shadows invade
blurring
spherical vision...
distorted thoughts

confused,
deluded mind:
hallucinations

eclipse fragmented thoughts

DEPRESSION...

6. Religion

I thought you were the benches at church
where people knelt for support.
I thought you were the incense in the air,
that filled the entire church.
I seriously thought that was your smell.
and that if I closed my eyes,

you will be there,

I thought, I thought

I only thought...

but how silly, ah, I don't need to close

my eyes

to know you are there.

7.

At grandma's, she made tortillas.
With a comal and a fire that devoured
wood. Her hands modeled corn dough,
into a flat circle, and later, placed it
into the hot flat griddle to cook it with love.

My siblings, watch her attentively,
while mom gave me a taco of cheese

that I truly enjoyed.

8._

In you, I see.
I see the moon
the moon in black
in black not white
not white like the sclera in your eyes

your eyes so big
so big, in them, I swim
I swim before I drown.
I drown, too late
Too late, In your eyes I have drown.

Round 3,

1.

I see, this is a contest for my brain.
but can I too invite my heart?
it would pump my feelings in these lines
they would run to give these poems life
And if it's not too much to ask,
Can I too invite my soul?
It would make these poems feel alive.

Round 3 # 2 Funny

There once was a pop star called O'Dare
he was old and had very little hair
so, he purchased a wig
sneezed all through his gig
with the wig suspended mid air

3._

Etheree

night
tell me,
why oh why
do you have stars?
Night, please! do tell me,
why oh why, are you dark?
Night, please, please, do tell me, why?
Why oh why, many fear your charms
if you are serene, really calm.
You help me sleep, tell me, oh dear night, why?

Round 3 # 4 mention a city

The commonwealth games,
my birth city on T.V.
nostalgic moments.

#5

if you were a diamond for exhibition,
I may ignored you.
but if you were a diamond in coal,
I may just give it a second thought.

Rounnd 3 # 6 - Religion

Catholic..Acrostic

Can you tell me why I should
answer to you? You, who
takes donations for the
Holy Spirit
our lord said
let the little children come
into my flock yet now dollars and
cents are taking precedence...

7._

Balloons glued to walls and windows,
a cake in the table,
children running in and out.
Photographs being taken at all times.
A griller hired for a part time.
And a Pinata, a little glad there's proof
that children were striking her out
out of her goodies in January.

Round 3 # 8

I knackered so
it's time to say adieu
hoping someone will come up
to take over from me and you???

It's been pleasure Luce....I know the independents can win this so....come on guys!!!!

Round 4 # 1 Touch...

I could touch you but...
I won't...

you are off limits
my choice not yours

You know I love you and...
I always will...

yet...one stroke and...

your addiction would be
once more under my skin
so..

I will let someone else
stroke you...

Round 4

#2

It's funny, so funny, isn't it?
That I'm supposed to study
Yet here I am writing poetry.

So funny.

Round 4

#3 form

Loop poetry

Letters in the keyboard
Keyboard that works perfectly
Perfectly luring me
Me to write a formed poem

Poem about letters
Letters greeting each other
Other than hating each other
Other than hitting each other
Other than...
Than not working together.

Round 4

#4

State, or country, or town?
I state the state of how I feel
I feel like Texas
And Arizona.

Round 4

#5

The sea is deeply blue
Just as the sky above
Fishes and dolphins,
even sharks cry too
The water slowly rises
Bye bye, shore

Round #4

#6

The God's and
Goddesses
whisper to me
within a fallen
whisper-

Through rituals
I am granted peace
and meditation
follows a moon's
acceptance for
peace.

I am a wiccan witch,
blessed be the night~

#1
How (in)sensitive

beautiful, dangerous things
die every day deep inside
as i abandon another poem
when it is looking at me.

i regret my senses
which no longer
understand my insensitive days
of hunger and deafness.

i'm beyond today
as blind as i can be.
so let me express what my words
can't feel
yet.
(...)

Round #4

#7

Another Birthday
rang a bell of
Forty Four times,
chiming every grey
hair I had upon
my head.

Silver falls upon my shoulders
as the raven in me washes
a rinse of showers
as the last candle
burns....

Round #4

#8

I've nestled thoughts
like candy coated caramels,
oozing upon a tongue
of desires,
whispering for more.

As a memory is tasted
I remember the smile
that was placed upon
my face and these are
the calories I crave
with an open palette.

Round #5

2. Category: funny!

I was accustomed
to clumsiness,
and the toilet was my friend,
rushing about
like a scurried
mouse to cheesed.

Running down the hall
the toilet paper becomes
a permanent article of clothing..
for everyone at work
to see....

Round #5

3. Formed poem

Haiku

bluebells prancing by
whistles of breezes shower
a nose for nature

#2 Ode to the Macho

my dear, my intentions are honest and sincere:
you cook, wash and mend as i drink my beer.
our home will be our paradise and hell
and you may feed my demons in you cell.

i'm a macho man, the best version of the past
but sex has to be mechanical and fast.
please, don't bother me with your half despair
kneel down right now, i need your revere.