INDEPENDANT TEAM #2

#2. James (beautiful soul)

You have survived many things
over the years. If you keep hanging
on life will get better. Don't promise
yourself at all, just do it and life
will be the treasure you deserve.

Spending cash on a war we won't win...
It seems to be 2001 all over again.
I'm saddened at the states attempt of peace,
There is no hope of any of this becoming a cease.

#4

Soccer is a sport of endurance.
Running around with nothing tired legs.
Playing for your teams country. Be proud.
Never be disappointed if you lose,
There is only one winner.

#5.

You, yes you over there
faking a smile for the camera.
Doll like hair, sadness in your eyes,
not wanting to go to church anymore.
Barbed wire eyes hurt me to watch,
shackled by the worlds mainstream.

Perfect is what your parents expect,
but we both know the truth about why
you wear long sleeve shirts and sunglasses.
You see your mother everywhere don't you
or is it to hide the tears you are ashamed to cry?

We are made up of flaws , that's why we are called human.
Don't listen to what everyone else thinks anymore,
the only place called home is in your heart. Follow it.
I'm always here if you need to talk, feelings are
made to be expressed.

You are beautiful no doubt, and lost but
I'm glad I found you. The colors on your body
are just the artwork you created, and you created
a masterpiece.

#6

Coloring books use colors and shapes.
Circles with squares and yellow with red.
It's a good time to let your imagination
run wild.

#7

leaves fall to the ground
in a rainbow of colors.
spinning around and around
Autumn is here once more.

#1

i have no idea who i am
or the reason why the pronoun i
should be written with capital letters.
i am just like the pronoum:
a mystery to be solved.

2. Must mention a member's username on this site (active, or inactive) yes, you can use your own.

my average thought led me nowhere:
i'm stuck between words,
swimming close the third bank of the river
right where the rain belongs.

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3. War

what's war for?
what are the hidden interests?
who should be blamed
but those who are blind?

this is a meaningless absurd world:
Sartre was right.
we are far from being conscious citizens.
do you really get disgusted
before the imperialism of your own country?

4. Poem must mention money, or a type of sport

she asked for some extra money,
speaking half english, half portuguese.
the cruelest moment is always
when you realise you are still a slave.

5. Wild card

if you can give meaning to your life
and be less invisible to yourself.
if you can forget labels and stereotypes
and create your own values.
then, my friend, you exist.

6. must include at least one colour, AND one shape

life is round
and we come and go incessantly
before Mother Goddess.
her ever open green arms
have been trying to embrace us
but our desobedient selves
and devastating awareness
are not ready
yet.

#7

Wooded paths bring me blithe
for they are the counselors of the world.
Inner healing begins with fresh air.

7. Category : nature

green valleys dance before my eyes,
orchids bow, shadowed by mother nature,
life expands within me and i understand her.

8._

I took my final.
That's all I did for this week
study and study
until I became confused.
Ah, I have to study more.

I have to get lost
somewhere in the world of math
rather than poems
though, today is a good day,
to search for poems.

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she disappeared fast,
thinking about miracles,
counting shooting stars.

nobody knows but
she fell in her hungry depths,
waiting for the sun.

1. Must write a poem to yourself, or about yourself.

If you are reading this, remember
to read it again, and again, and again
until you remember
what it was
that you were supposed to remember
before I asked you to remember, that ,
which only you know. Then if you do remember,
forget that I said anything, just forget
that I asked you to remember
what I myself have already forgotten,
then maybe..,
you could remind me, of that
which I was supposed to not to forget,
yet, That, which I hoped, you, my future self,
would remember instead.

2. Must mention a member's username on this site (active, or inactive) yes, you can use your own.

Hellon is active more than some think
She types and types more than some think
And she definitely thinks more than some think

I think.

3.

War, I played with your letters
And I found out
You were raw...

I never liked raw meat,
Too much blood for my taste.

4. Poem must mention money, or a type of sport

Money, money, money
Honey, give me some money
But if you can't
Find me some honey
Or a pony
I would like to sweeten my day
Or to ride the interstate lane
Until I reach I don't know where
I just need to write
Something
About money,

Honey.

5. Wild card

Wild was the cat
And mild was the dog
The dog meowed
And the cat barked

But only
When they were using
Rosetta Stone...

6. must include at least one colour, AND one shape

Silver like the stars
And round as the moon
Was the spoon
That fed the universe
To you and I

7. Category : nature

A peach, two peach, four peach, five peach
The peach tree has peaches in its branches.
A bird, two bird, four bird
The peach tree has peaches in its branches
a peach, two peach, tree peach..
The birds are eating the peaches in the branches.
a bird, two bird, four bird, five bird, six bird,
The birds are still eating the peaches in the branches.
A bird,
The peach tree has branches.

8. Double Form ( either double of the same form, i.e 2 haikus, or, 2 different forms joined, i.e a Tanka followed by a haiku.)

an eagle soars high
With open wings it descends
landing in a branch

A fisherman naps,
Water splashes in his clothes
the eagle laughs loud

1._
To you, the girl wearing glasses,
Looking at the screen,
And becoming tired of reading
But not of writing
Just know, this is not what it seems.
This is not a dream.
You are awake,
Reading prompts to continue writing.

2.-

Karla was here,
I saw her writing poetry.
With passion
So much passion
in her words.

Have you seen her?
Have you read her?

Some say,
she became her own poetry.

3.-

Because I can't hear nor see
The screams, the fear
Nor the bombs or the air strikers
Or the soldiers
Nor the streets being destroyed
Nor the homes explode
Just because I can't, and I can't
Doesn't mean that I have no clue of
What's going on

Free Palestine, free the people
From the evil Israel and Hamas, both,
Have bestowed upon the innocent.

4. Poem must mention money, or a type of sport

Bouncing from hand to hand
Like a basketball
Was the money in a circus.

5. Wild card

I miss you not like I used to miss you
Yet you still miss me like you did
or even more than you did before
But if you think I stopped missing you
Just know that now that you are here
I miss you not like you miss me now
But that I actually miss the missing you.

6. One color and a shape

Red was the apple
And red was the lipstick
I was not in shape
to bite into
The fruit of temptation,
I was not round
Nor a stick
Yet still, I was not in shape
To bite into
The fruit of temptation
So I wore my jeans,
And no make up.

7._
Watering plants
A frog jumped into a hose
Then into a rose
Until I felt
Like the frog splashed me
Inspiration to write
Some prose.

8... Double form

the sun between clouds
shines through a violent storm;
seagulls fly due south

where a parasol
And a star fish enjoy tans
Next to the shoreline

1._
one day, when the weed grew tall
And the snakes became invisible,
She pulled out the weed, nonchalantly,
Just to jump and scream
Like the girl, she is.

2._

Maple tree, where are thee?
I have search the fields of green
Where pastures grow
And horses galloped slow
But I have yet to find thee.

3. war

War, guns and arms,
Wrestling until someone dies...
That's war.
No rules, it seems.

It's sad.

4.-

If we didn't need money,
We would have to learn to trade instead
If we didn't need money,
I am not sure if this would be a better place
But if we didn't need money...

I wonder if war would exist today...

I guess is not really the money, I should blame

5.- wild card

It seems as I though what I see
It's not nothing but a blur
When will everything become
Fully clear?

6.-

Purple star, in a cheek,
blushing with smiles
And giggles with eyes
that shine
and cheer an entire room.

7.- nature

A crow in a wire
watches an squirrel
climb pines.