THE CLUB #3

PROMPTS:

1. Include a type of transport(car, train, etc) and mention the weather.

2. Must have 3 verses (at least 3 lines each)

3. Must mention royalty in some way (crown, heir, king, prince etc)

4. include the words, "first time" or, base the poem on the idea of a first time at something.

5. Wild Card

6. Formed Poem

7. Must mention a piece of clothing

8. Category: love

1.) weather/transport

Sometimes life is a shit storm
and all you can do
is stand in the middle of the road
watching the crap pile up around you,
hoping it doesn't hit you dead on.

*for prompt purposes, the weather is self explanatory, I think of the road as a form of transportation.

2. 3 verses x 3 lines

Pumpkin soup for lunch
Again
tomorrow will have something with a bit of crunch

A bit of fibre for the bowels
keeps the wheels turning
and helps with the vowels

But what's for tea
that's what I want to know
May need to go on a spending spree

3. Must mention royalty in some way (crown, heir, king, prince etc)

There once was a bonny lass
who frolicked on large fields of grass,
she smiled as she skipped,
then frowned when she tripped
and looked like real royal ass.

4. include the words, "first time" or, base the poem on the idea of a first time at something.

The first time the very first chicken
laid the very first egg, it thought
of nothing but to warm it
with its feathers and then see
what happens next.

5. Wild Card

No one could save her, the wildebeest
stuck in the sudden mud,
her frightened cries sounding exactly like
happy frogs before the rain.

6. Formed Poem

Well, if everyone likes my
right-angled triangles
so much, I might
as well write
another
one.

7. Must mention a piece of clothing

Like the brave men who proposed the
earth went round the sun
and not the other way round,
Greg sought to tell his wife
her dress had not shrunk,
it was the other way round.

8. Category: love

Love is the only
socially acceptable
kind of madness; a
derangement, a hysteria,
an utter stupidity, sheer
lunacy and, often, an
uncontrollable spiral
to melancholy.
Let it spread.

PROMPTS

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

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

3. War

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

5. Wild card

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

7. Category : nature

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.)

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

a haiku

Girl, please stop eating.
It is all going to your
buttocks, seriously.

2.

Sunshine, leave
me tucked in for another five
minutes
go away

3. War

Learn this.
Riots never reach wealthy peoples houses,
burials never make wealthy people cry,
bombs don't scratch
wealthy peoples windows,
even curfews aren't feared by
wealthy peoples children.
Even when the sun decides to shine,
it only shines through wealthy
peoples curtains.

4. Money/Sport

She swims towards the sun
putting the crowd
of waves behind her back,
basking in the balmy air

5. Wild card

You came in,
survying the room with
tired eyes,
then fell on the bed
like you hadn't slept in years.

6. one colour/one shape

In the middle of the City Square,
there were two old men,
covered in red, hung.
Their bodies swung
with the wind.

7. Nature

Two days later, you'll be here.
We'll be lounging
on a hammock, sucking
on slices of a cold watermelon,
surrounded by a cliff and
the scent of saffron.
Two days later, we'll sneak into
the small bedroom and make love
until your homeland calls
you again.

8. Double form

Double haiku

Your helmet is still
laying in that drawer; dead.
Your jacket is still

placed on that table;
also dead, and that breeze is
still searching for you.

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

All I know is that
I don't wanna write poetry anymore
I feel like hanging myself

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

Bob's shank was hurting.
He had been kicked by
silver shoes one time too many
and it was time to take his leave.

3. War

An antigen invades
and is immediately accosted
by leukocytes that
fire antibodies as targets
and call for backup killers
that swallow it whole,
phagocytedly.

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

In my wallet, I find a lira
and am instantly taken back
to the oniony fish sandwiches
in crispy paper bags
with lemon juice squeezed
from pop top bottles
by the bobbing barges
on the Bosphorous.

5. Wild card

Technically,
a wild card
should be a
substitute for
any other
specific card
in the round
but, hey, this
is even better.

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

We're studying anatomy
and I look at the skeleton
suspended and staring before us,
and I give it a belly from too much bacon,
a receding hairline, a wedding ring,
and eyes as blue and pale as the teacher's chalk.

7. Category : nature

I love rain but today
it felt like a thousand
million hundred zillion
transparent stinging
floating fizzing fleas,
out to destroy my life.

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.)

We twist, turn, reflect
and colour each other just
like kaleidoscopes

though that simile
was painful, let it be said
I don't give a fuck

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

Under the third fingernail of my right hand
lies a crescent of dirt
from my garden,
a billion microorganisms
tucked in tightly for the night.

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

Melpomene is no muse of mine,
though it must be said
(very unlyrically) that
there is a small tragedy
behind every forced poem,
and no one understands a
tragic poem or song or dance
better than Melpomene.

3. War

I watch a beetle
glide past,
seized triumphantly
by an army of ants.

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

After removing her old body,
they empty her little house,
noting the cans of beans,
the tattered blankets,
and twenty hundred dollar bills
under a floorboard,
long forgotten.

5. Wild card

The sea nudges the boat
and the boat rubs it back
and though I'm making it
sound flirtatious, it isn't,
no matter how much hollow
poetry I insist on deriving.

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

My second grade teacher,
Miss Margery, had short hair,
square spectacles, and orange
fingernails that slightly scraped
the blackboard as she wrote.

7. Category : nature

A small smudge of rainbow
hung in the air above chimney
as I came home to you
in the late afternoon sun.

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.)

We weed the garden
every week, but the mushrooms
still rise in revolt.

In armies, they sprout
into rubber hands and knees,
nudged out by the earth.

1.) about me

Dear face staring up
from the lapping puddle
at my feet,
you've got some dirt on your nose,
just there.

2.) somebody else

Abracadabra, wiggity-wam,
the magician swished his wishy wand,
and bibbity boppity, shiggity sham,
turned my house into a pond.

3.) war

After, when you're standing
by the skeleton of your house,
it's not the shattered walls
but the dusty teddy bear
that makes you scream.

4.) money or sports

I wanted to be a millionaire,
have oodles of money,
and riches to spare,
but all I can do is sit an stare,
and apparently I have
a resting bitch face.

5.) wild

Trees
grow from
earth's salad bowl,
large sprouts of broccoli,
covered in squirrels.

6.) color and shape

The sun
is a big green square
in the sky.