FOP#5
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Darren
10 years agoPROMPTS:
1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
6. Category : sad
7. Include a piece of furniture
8. Write a poem about this site!! -
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Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
this is one more try
to get my syllables right
as time stumbles by
in its pyjamas, tempting me
to pull the blanket
all over my head
and never speak a syllable
again
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
The pencil hits my skin
like a syringe, sucking out
all energy, until
there's no syllable left
to spill.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Never thought I'd want to
ask the police for cuffs,
as I spit words like a fake
fortune-teller, expecting
the taboo to get me
into jail.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
Without you, I am but
a vagabond, in search of a place
where the rain doesn't collect
its miniature corpses
into my hair, like a cobweb.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
The wine is dry today, dry
like the raisin-like fly
that struggled in the sun
whilst stubbornly sticking
to the rotten tomato
at the marketplace.
6. Category : sad
Break my fingers, please,
allow me to nevermore
scriblle a verse,
compose a melody,
for I am not worthy
of your attention.
7. Include a piece of furniture
There's no halo
descending from the desklamp,
no warmth sitting
in the middle of the chair,
no you, waiting for me
to whine about the cruelty
of the night, and hugging me
as if I were your last pillow.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
I swear I can't write about this site anymore,
still trying to muster up some metaphors
but truth is, I just want to throw these last 40 minutes
like waterballoons, out of the window, and run
as angry strangers scream at me. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Form and free
I wish the words
would flow from my
brain to the screen:
bypassing my slow
fingers labouring on the
crumb-splattered keyboard.
I'm waiting for something
that cannot be waited on.
2. Stationary
The paperclip I used to bind
my poems together was the most
important thing in the world, as I sat
in the publishers office, waiting for
it all to fall apart.
3. Crime/prison
Alcatraz stood, barren and haunted
with the lives of rapists, murderers,
thieves conmen and maybe,
possibly, the tortured souls
of innocents among them.
4. Poverty
I saw a homeless person once
pick up a euro coin that had fallen from
a mans wallet as he exited
a shop. He ran after him to give it
to him and my faith in men was restored
temporarly, at least.
5. Rhyme
The white belly of my cat
only exentuated the fact that she
was morbidly, irreversibly, fat!
6. Sad
The song you taught me on piano
is the one you refused to let me,
a stranger in your words, teach you.
7. Furniture
The stool beside my bed serves
no purpose. It was put there
for a reason I can't remember but
has managed to remain for years
of its uselessness.
8. About site
I remember the first poem I wrote on
PnQ was nearly as bad as the one
I am writing now, only at the time I thought
I was Shakesphere. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Form and free
The jacket's hung like brown bears
over the banister, and the
stairs itself was carpeted
maroon and white.
I noticed a small stain,
blood or wine or candlewax,
poking perfection.
Yet, it left some mark that life
existed in this house.
2. Stationary
I wish I was ambidexterous
so I could use both hands to grip
two pens and write two poems
and post them both
simultanously.
3. Crime/prison
There once was a priest,
who was a bit of a beast,
when they came to rob the church,
he gave them quite a lurch,
he wasn't scared in the least.
4. Poverty
The flaunting of jewellery, Hollister
tracksuits and alloyed cars was a kick
in the teeth I couldn't afford to get
checked out.
5. One rhyme
All the rhyme in the world
will not save FOP,
for I fear the The Club
will come out on top!
6. Sad
The silence after the teacher called
out your name, mistakenly, on the roll
was deafening.
7. Furniture
The bunk-beds I had always wanted
lost their appeal when I smacked
my head of the top of the
top bed.
8. Site
So many memories and people
I never would have met,
but for the wonders of google
and the internet -
Darren
10 years ago1 form and free
This is the last time
I write about nothing
to pretend its a poem
Why should I
Have to write crap
You started this TC
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
A ruler helps draw straight lines
along paper or graph
our ruler probably snorts straight lines
and sees pink giraffes
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
I may go to prison
for calling the queen
a coke snorting monarch
is it treason
to accuse without reason
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
To have no cash
not even a penny
is a familiar feeling
despite my family having plenty
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
I am glad that I still have hair
my brother, my father have none at all
they moan and whinge that it isn't fair
to be honest I don't want a head like a beach ball
6. Category : sad
There is nothing more sad
than the hole in the wall
telling you your balance
is sod all
7. Include a piece of furniture
Who has a stool
what fool
has a stool
when a comfy chair
it better for your back
8. Write a poem about this site!!
this site has never seen
so much drivel
mass posted
since I have been a member
hopefully
it doesn't crash under the strain
of such much crap -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
Oh, please, quit forcing me to
hide poetic flair into forms,
nothing will come from this,
or perhaps nothing will become
something - anything -
a miracle, a fly on the wall,
a flower on the wallpaper,
turning into something real,
something, not-so-origami
original.
Or
not.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
She's spillin secrets as if tearing
pages of her diary to be thrown around
like confetti, raining down on innocent heads
who didn't know about her inner desires.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
In the prison, tattooed men
with muscles as big as your head
stare at the moon, and wonder
about home.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
She wanted to buy bread
for the pigeons, but hasn't eaten bread
for months, only stole water
from the heavens, and got punished
by a storm.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
At least one rhyme, she says,
well then it's time, to rhyme rhyme
with time, and time with rhyme,
and etc
etc
etc.
6. Category : sad
No one will find her
if she hides in the river banks
like a Kelpie, because this world,
this world doesn't believe in magic
anymore, nor does it believe
that myths were saved
for a reason.
7. Include a piece of furniture
The creaking chair is silent
in the wind - too silent,
I bet grandpa
closed the window.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
I am not going to write a damn poem about this site.
Or I could try to rhyme, but my rhymes are equal
to a toddler's, and my vocabulary, nothing but
scraps I've found whilst elbowing through the crowd
of native English speakers. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Formed with free
I saw in elections at home
and wondered why there were recounts.
Thousands of poems
dozens of threads and posters,
sentence upon sentence.
Baby Rainbow, I predict a recount!
2. Stationary
All my metaphorical pens are
bled dry form the relentless
scribbling and scraping and
shit-talking of the last
week.
3. Crime
A man in a suit once stole
from every person in Ireland
and was led away in striped suit
of another kind.
4. Poverty
The only poverty I feel like writing about
is the poverty of ideas which will famine
its way across PnQ in the next week.
5. Rhyme
Why wasn't I writing like this all the time?
Stanza or not, free verse or rhyme?
'pause to consider every word,'
that's the biggest lie Ive heard!
6. Sad
The tears rolled down my face
in a way I had never known them to before.
Then again, you effected me in
a similar way and they were my way
of saying goodbye, and thank you.
7. Furniture
The fold out patio table
and chairs are cheap, white, dirty,
and perfect for a lads barbecue.
8. This site will be the death of me
when the internet service provider
send the bill for August! -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
Aha ...
an acrostic a day
hopefully keeps the doctor away
although we're all traumatised by now
from tearing our judgement apart
and writing nonsense
and starting all of our sentences with and's
and not daring to look anywhere else
but this screen again, and occasionally
the clock hanging on the wall,
hanging like the big, grinning cat
from Alice in Wonderland
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
Two pencils, sitting in a corner,
k-i-s-s-i-n-g, or perhaps
just refilling their ink,
or perhaps, just lying there
abandoned, because you're writing poetry
on the computer now.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
In the supermarket, two girls encircle her
and scold her for her non-skinny jeans
and the way candy doesn't roll into her purse
as it would into her mouth -
then her purse is 1 kg heavier
and the police is ignorant.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
Her parents are partying
somewhere on a beach, in the far
far east - her boyfriend
kicked her out of the apartment
and she feels like a vagabond now,
at loss of her heart.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
Hey, ho,
only 30 minutes to go,
I whip up a poem, or I'd rather call it
some words of doom, worthy
of marrying with the dustbin
any moment,
now.
6. Category : sad
The owl bookmark you gave me for my birthday
still stands proudly, clasped between music boxes,
fur elise and amelie.
You've never been here, to place the bookmark
between pages of love poetry, or pretend
to play the piano, as the music boxes
creak in the background.
7. Include a piece of furniture
The refrigerator light
shines brightly on the bar,
and the wine glasses
are a little dirty, still holding
your fingerprints, from when you sat
by the window, in that leather chair,
like a psychologist, and asked me
about my childhood, like a lover.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
15 members online and the pinata
is carried into the plaza -
0 member online and the candy's rotting
at our teeth -
Colm
10 years ago1. Formed with free
Narph, you minx, you poetic
ninja. Silent and deadly.
Waits in the shadows
sharp of mind and wit, logging
in to win the day.
All I have to say, is well played!
2. Stationary
How many times will I utter
words about pencils, pens, paper:
It's the summer! I'm supposed to be
on holiday from... whats this, an eraser?
3. Crime/prison
The only crime I committed was loving
you enough to see myself reflected in your eyes,
kissing you tenderly enough to melt
our hearts.
4. Poverty
I wondered if the outstretched hand,
emancipate and dirty would hold up
to the weight of the few coins I placed
in its vessel.
5. Rhyme
This competition, you ask, why does it matter?
Is it the poetic records to shatter?
Is it the glory, is it the pride?
Against the pirate ship there is no place to hide.
6. Sad
Even though I carried you to
your final resting place, I didn't notice
your leaving until I woke in the middle
of the night and had no angel to hold.
7. Furniture
This chair is as comfortable as sitting
on sandpaper. Maybe its the tension
in my buttcheeks from producing such
abomidable poetry.
8. This site
PnQ, take a bow, for you
have played host to a show
that I will not soon forget. -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
I
will not
cry, not now,
I'm a dumb girl,
imagining things about exes and
treasures, breasts and
hobbies ... things I'll never have
and never will, when I keep
running away like this.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
My fingers look like pencils now,
long, and thin, almost losing
their flexibility. I might as well
rest, on the space bar, and add
a thousand shooting stars,
its tails accompanied by rhyme.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
I never apologised for that night
I snuck into your room
and stole your heart -
here I am, hands bloodied,
and I'm returning what once
belonged to me.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
Home, is a bird's nest, but the nest
is abandoned, and the eggs
have found their way into human bellies,
and the mother is dying somewhere
with a broken wing.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
Sadness lingers like cognac
in the throat,
and I wonder about the road
I took to hold on to change,
to hold on to another bottle.
6. Category : sad
She's hiding her depression
by writing in third person, but actually,
all the girls that have ever appeared
in her poems, were once part
of her diary.
7. Include a piece of furniture
The only furniture I seem capable
of thinking about, is a chair, how it
curves with my back, like a question mark
and strokes the back of my leg
like a cat, only with less furry fingers.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
I miss the days when critics
where criticized, or when poetry
was criticized at all. All that's left
is a gang of Foppers, bouncing
against the walls, hoping
to be free. -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
serendipity never wanted to be found,
as it hides behind the book you never read,
dreaming of a day where it could disappear
like karma, another abstract term
invented to keep humans
at bay
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
Envelopes linger around my room
but all I'm thinking about is text messsages
and e-mails, every minute, every second.
I wonder what happened to taking things
slowly - like the way you'd sip your tea,
wary of burning your tongue.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Sirens echo into darkness, as the news reporter
talks about another few hundred deaths -
rebels are bouncing the ball of life
back and forth, committing a crime
no karma could cleanse.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
In the desert, a cactus
searches for an oasis, through
its roots, through
its non-existent flowers, but
he doesn't belong
where water's clogged up,
he doesn't have a home
at all.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
At what point would a poet say,
this is enough, I call it a day?
Surely not when battling against TC,
I will write poetry even if it means abandoning sleep.
6. Category : sad
If this is meant to create
creative juices, then let stand here
like that can of apple juice on the table
in the garden - let me be forgotten
7. Include a piece of furniture
Chairs fall into oblivion,
so do the desks,
and the lamp you got
for christmas.
Everything that doesn't fit in boxes
will be forgotten, as you move on,
into someone else's house,
into someone else's heart.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
These days, weekly nominations
are as pretty as chocolate cakes at the bakery,
but never taste as delicious.
I wish to smudge my fingers
in a chocolate mountain again,
and create art. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Formed with free
The cycle repeats like
a merry-go-round
without the merriment.
If I look back on
this contest, it will be with
Grudging affection.
But not yet, no sir, there's life
in FOP yet!
2. Stationary
I hope that the deoderant I sprayed
in your face by accident at PE won't scar
your sight enough to see the pen you will need
for your end of year exam.
3. Crime
A child played in the front garden
of her New England home. Her Dad went inside
to put on the kettle for tea and didn't
hear the swing when he called her,
didn't see her beside the doll that lay,
dropped, on the grass. He didn't make the tea
that day. He didn't let go of the doll
4. Poverty
The Prodigal Son, he had the life,
partying and boozing, looking for a wife,
but when bad times came he hit a slump
and his bank balance naturally took a thump.
Life's not fun now, living in the slop,
oh his life turned out quite a flop.
5. Rhyme
I used up all the rhyme
I had in my head last time..
Wait a minute, that will do!
Subconscience, thank you
6. Sad
The famine ship may as well have brought
my sister to heaven, for I as I watched it sail
off into the Atlantic I knew I'd never share a
country with her again.
7. Furniture
The mirror atop the cabinet
in the spare room was dusty: The silver
frame didn't shine and its face
was as pimply as the face that looked in
it. It wasn't there to flatter. It wasn't there
to paint a false truth.
8. Site
I sometimes pressed the Contact Us button
hidden at the bottom of the page
(that's right, look down) in the hope
that Janis would return with a cyber toolbox
to repair all her ailments. -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
Today, I'm becoming quite wary
of checking messages on more than two tabs,
dragging my brain, this way
and that way, hoping
you would be sitting somewhere,
in between
like how I found you on the first day,
a bookmark of inspiration,
guiding me into the world
of poetry.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
Different kinds of paper - yellow,
red, but no indigo ...
I'd like to fold some roses for you,
but my fingers are battle-scarred,
and you prefer reality.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
The crimescene where you found
a broken pencil and spilled ink
will forever haunt you -
like that image of eczema
whilst you were drooling over
the strawberry sorbet you ordered,
that time, when you were
on a date with a doctor,
thought it be healthy.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
She drags her rags around town,
hair hanging in front of her
scarred face - and no one
dares to look at her, not even the hands
that offer her a few cents -
not even enough
to buy her a bottle of water.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
One day, I will wear a dress in May
and ask the prince: may I have this dance?
Then crush his feet, intentionally,
and scold him for loving my dress more than myself.
6. Category : sad
I refuse to repeat, to shuffle,
to scroll through this playlist
and be reminded of you.
Get out of my headphones,
get out of my head,
get out of my phone.
7. Include a piece of furniture
No one will ever touch this couch anymore,
if they knew how you kissed my neck
during summer, and ran your fingers
like a pianist across my belly.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
6 minutes to go, and let's hope
the connection doesn't fail me, because
we all know how famous PnQ can get,
sucking up poems with the excuse
of not being logged in anymore. -
Darren
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
When time is short
and poetry has gone
a haiku is hard
a sonnet a distant dream
all I can do
is add an acrostic on the end
Funny that I don't swear
Understand this I am out of words
Cant seem to write a single verse
King of metaphors is dead
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
Paper cuts hurt
like a kick in the groin
sliced thinner
than budget ham
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Behind bars we keep
the worst of society
but who is laughing now
free tv bed and meals
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
To have no home
is to have no castle
not even able
to build a sheet fort
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
how many lines make a poem
I feel it needs four
two to start off the emotion
but to end it I need two more
6. Category : sad
Crying is watering your cheeks
and showing your heart
sees sadness
and shares sadness
with you
7. Include a piece of furniture
my table has a mass of noodles
that have fell from the pot
and tried to crawl away
like chicken flavoured maggots
8. Write a poem about this site!!
This site needs a make over
it is bland as a salmon
the colours non offensive
to a blind person
1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
Number one again, the form in the free
I cant write much more
I need you to see
that a senryu
is a simple form
hope lingers today
foppers coming together
to win this contest
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
my pen is dry
my mind array
my screen is white
this ode is contrite
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
To rob a man
is a sham
and cheating against humanity
but what is worse
is to get off
now that is a calamity
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
To be poor
is to appreciate the small things
like freedom
and butterflies
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
again we dig deep
this poetry sending me asleep
will it make my collection
more chance the binned section
6. Category : sad
I see mothers
tipping kids
out of buggys
to post updates
to facebook
sadly these
are the next role models
7. Include a piece of furniture
I stare at my chair
and remember your face
hair as pretty as lace
and a look of disgrace
when I say bed time
8. Write a poem about this site!!
why have so many forums
when only one is needed
everything bundled into
members message forum -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
this will be the end,
no more nonsense amassing
empty-headed threads,
only fingers, still counting syllables,
begging to be clipped, for the nails
are breaking, and the head
is breaking, and everything
is breaking
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
I can see you heart, crumpling up
like a piece of paper - and I'd wish to
unfold you, and trace the secrets
from your past, but you've already
set yourself in fire.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Two men, one girl,
the rest,
you could guess.
But no one believes her,
and everybody tells her
to not walk into alleys anymore.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
The poetry I've written these days
deserve no home, no specially titled
Word-document, no fancy font,
just vagabond piss
and hunger.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
One more time, I'll rhyme
before the clock strikes ten
and we're all praying for heaven
to be nice on us.
6. Category : sad
I am not the doll you pick up
whenever you're bored,
forgive me
for being selfish.
7. Include a piece of furniture
Four feet - one table
living in harmony,
but the mother's scolding
and throws forks around
for being dirty.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
This site has become quite
the joker, and the queen,
both contradiction, and reason
quite fitting
the bipolar me. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Forced with free
How lucky this wasn't judged on quality
becasue judges would have to scroll
d
o
w
n
and
d
o
w
n
in an attempt to find a poem
that is actually a poem.
2. Stationary
The multicoloured pen I used
religiously in stuffy lecture halls,
early-morning study sessions and
midnight poetry jaunts still sits
proudly in the recesses of my memory
(and on my locker. I can see it
from where I sit, actually)
Fancy that.
3. Crime/prison
The jury stood, the judge silently
ran her fingers along the hammer
she would soon be using to pass her
judgement. The onlookers were silent,
the spokesperson stood and...
unanimous...
Guilty! As charged
and of to prison he goes.
4. Poverty
The guy I made up in the previous
poem was on trial because he got caught
stealing because he was really poor. And
it was sad that he was forced into stealing
but that's life (but for him it was only 4-6 years)
5. Rhyme
If I had a dime
for every time I rhyme,
I don't know how much I'd have
because I don't know anything
about currency rates.
6. Sad
The painting you started with
loving care by the river was tragic
and conspicous in its un-entirety.
7. Furniture
The playstation, sleek and black, sits
as a trophy of my childhood atop
my bookcase, happily enjoying
its retirement.
8. Site
This site is a place where
it is possible to learn from people
you thought you were teaching. -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
okay, seems like I've got it wrong,
kerosene will still fill up my brain
as I try to survive, just another hour, and
yoga will nothing to calm me down
because this isn't a war of poetry anymore,
this is a war of speed
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
I will sharpen my pencil
just to say "touche" for once,
and write you an essay of wits,
but will probably end up giggling
by the time I see your eyes.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Prisons and Paris are quite the same to me.
Both squares where art has been locked up,
except - one's for the sad souls, the other
for drunken ones.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
I will probably forget
what I said yesterday, stumbling
on the street, talking to lampposts
with another bottle at hand.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
I don't think I've ever rhymed so much in my life,
after this, I'll make sure to take a clean, fresh dive
into the rhyming dictionary, just so I don't
emberass myself anymore, in moments like these.
6. Category : sad
I don't believe myself
when I retrace my memories
as if my head held a photo-album,
everything's clouded by
amnesia, and there's no one left
to ask questions about myself.
7. Include a piece of furniture
The closet stares at me, suqare-eyes,
almost threatening to collapse,
crush my brain, and bury me
in the clothes I've never worn.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
This contest has just broken the record
of spawning a few-hundred 4-lined poems
into the graveyards of this site. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Formed with free
Winter's breath fluctuates...
Oh no, I've done too many syllables
for a haiku. Lets try again -
Winter's breath changes
with the growing tides that bring
snowy Christmas bliss.
2. Stationary
I wonder what everyone else
in the site thinks of us. Frienzied,
little else to do but release a
diahorrea of words from the tips
of our pens. Please
let there be an eraser to expell
the terrors we have unleashed
on the world.
3. Crime
You would think I was a mass-murderer,
theif or con-artist the way the poems
about prison seem to come like
second nature to me.
4. Poverty
It has been long since I have been rich
with poetic flare - I am reduced to a shell,
a homeless person begging my mind for
scraps of words to throw together.
5. Rhyme
I will surely re-read these with a stutter,
and wonder how I could actually utter
such nonsense, such tripe! I ask for
the forgiveness of a future me sober
from the drug of this competition.
6. Sad
The journey home on the plane
was one I'd rather forget: I spent it
looking at the world underneath pass
me by and count the places I would never
get to see, never get to be.
7. Furniture
The coffee table was made from the
recutilated engine of a Ferrari 599, framed
like a museum piece by a clear glass lid.
8. Site
Poems and quotes, have you reached
your quota of information yet? Is this
madness enough for you to shut your
eyes and go to sleep? -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
Haiku is angry
for tainting his self-image
of serene nature,
I know I'm committing crimes
to the world of poetry,
right here, right now,
wondering if it's worth
the crown of jokers.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
During valentine's day, I think
of sending you a birthday day.
During your birthday, I think
of packacking candy for Christmas.
During christmass, I hope to find
an envelope sealed with a kiss
from you.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
She tries as hard as she can,
forgetting about the bars
that chequered moonlight on her face,
but the prison she left
still resides inside of her heart,
and no one wants her free.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
A small child, barely old enough
to spell, plays with sand in the scorching sun,
nothing but torn up pants covering his body.
His parents are somewhere - trying
to bring bread home, and he's baking
delicious cakes for them, in sand.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
The sun will set for you
as the wind runs through
your hair, and whistles
into your ear, like
a sign of hope.
6. Category : sad
Headache starts to spread
like a spider's legs, dominating
each portion until all I can think about
is stilling the movement - killing the soul.
7. Include a piece of furniture
Candy wrappings are littered
all around the living room -
beneath the vase, a condom
was found - your parents
drag you to the couch
and talk about the future
as if they're fortune-tellers.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
The pastels that nestle in the background
will always bring me at peace, but oh,
never shall I bear the bright, stabbing yellow,
poking into my eyes, as I enter the zone
of humour, that only creates a frown on my head. -
Darren
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
I can write just one more
before my mind travels
to the evermore
Try as I might
I can only write shite
Reality bites hard
Even though
Demons have control now
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
A compass can draw circles
perfectly round
it also stabs you in the arm
if you slip
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Batman is a crime fighter
running around gotham
maybe he should be arrested
for impersonating the law
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
to live on the streets is dire
the lowest you can go
to help yourself is the only way
to find yourself a home
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
I feel it should be morning
the hours flying past
I cant believe I am still writing
still sitting on my arse
6. Category : sad
To see an orphan
is the saddest sight
but maybe that is why
god allows some people
to not conceive
that way we can match them up
and families they will be.
7. Include a piece of furniture
another bloody poem about my chair
it hasn't had this much attention
since I was about 17 years old
if you know what I mean
8. Write a poem about this site!!
the scramble is causing
a crash of servers
if we are lucky
Hey everybody
stop writing
and we can have
the rest of the night off -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
snowflakes tumble down,
graceless, against the standard
of old fairytales ...
when it snows in Amsterdam,
carpets of dandruff
are rolled over the streets.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
He sits in a calligrapher's stance,
quil dripping with curves and flowers.
I sit behind him, watching his back
starting to curve slightly,
just like his words.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Left fingerprints of blood
all over her legs, marking her
as posession - like the trophy he won
for reciting poetry at age 16,
like the letters he received
from other girls he melted.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
This prompt, this prompt
is for the vagabonds, in search
for better wording.
This prompt is to turn empty pockets
into pockets with holes, inspiration
falling out like old notes,
never money, never a melody
of metal, dancing on the pavement,
only soft tuds.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
The sadness in his eyes reminds me
of brewing tea, more often,
and teaching him to flee
from sugar cubs, teaching him
to be the companion of bitterness.
6. Category : sad
There's no sadness left in my soul,
for all's been imprinted in poetry.
So, these days, I've been mute,
typing only in couplets,
but you'll never hear me scream
when the teakettle's too hot for my hands.
7. Include a piece of furniture
The lamp hangs low, like a drowsy,
but curious, one-eyed creature,
reads over my shoulders
as I browse through the newspapers,
and find the picture I'm looking for.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
PnQ, with its big Q at the end,
ought to remind you of cuteness.
But, this site burns hotter
than a BBQ, when the clubs rage
and the threads roar,
and the poetry dies. -
Colm
10 years ago1. Formed with free
Can I skip you please?
This prompt is proving tough,
no matter how many poems I write
'twill never be enough.
Silvershoes, Noura
Abracadabra and Narph,
and all the rest too.
Take a bow, pirate ship,
your time to shine is now.
2. Stationary
The pencilholder you made for me
8 years ago was useless then, yet I find
it more apt now sitting in a classroom
full of pencil-losing, pencil-breaking
6 year olds.
3. Crime/prison
My grandfather once worked the railways
where, a September Day he saw a man
dressed in the finest, moustache and all
board a train bound for Donegal.
Now later that evening, the news spread
of a murder in the village, who was it they said?
A man in a suit, not from around here,
my grandfather knew then, and spoke without fear
That day and on the trail, as the first witness,
'Did you see this man board the train sir?'
'Yes sir, without doubt,' he said, he sang,
and he saw him again after when his body they did hang.
4. Poverty
I don't like falling into the trap
of empty bank-balances, overdrafts
and loan repayments. The things
most familiar are the things most unwanted.
5. Rhyme
I'm running on fumes for the last two hours,
poetry muses give me your powers!
Another few minutes, a poem here or there,
a turn of phrase, I need some flare!
6. Sad
The way the cub pulled at his father's ear
waiting for a response that wasn't there
was enough to send a four year old
into a fit of cinema-induced tears.
7. Furniture
I wish I could find out why
you wear men's underwear sometimes
and why you blushed when I found them
in our beside drawer. And why you used
two glasses to drink the bottle of wine
when I was working last week.
8. Site
How wonderful, that we were born in
a time with an outlet to drive ourselves
poetically crackers. TS Elliot and Sylvia Plath
and the others are turning in their graves. -
Saerelune
10 years ago1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.
I say
no
n
o
n
.. o
.....o
.......o
to formed poetry,
structured like bridges to be
burnt, erode, erased
from Google Maps.
2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.
He think he's a poet,
with a pencil balancing on his ear,
I admit, he's quite charming,
but never as charming
as Pablo Nerudo and his odes,
or the way Maria Rainer Rilke
speaks of loss. No, never
will a man in khaki pants
replace the dream of a poet.
3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!
Serenity is kidnapped
by the site, over
and over again,
asking for more words
than possible.
4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.
These words, are looking for a home,
doesn't matter where - battery cage
like chicken, or cartboard boxes,
like rotting bananas. Anything will do
but this burial place of a thread.
5. Must include at least one rhyme.
Here, I was still trying to be
original, but I'm sure I'll disagree
with my level of creativity
once I wake up the next morning
and re-read, re-read, re-read.
6. Category : sad
My glasses leave marks
on my nose, reminding me
how I could never look straight
into the camera, afraid my nose
would gather too much attention,
with its size, its glimmer, its marks
that prove late-night conversations.
7. Include a piece of furniture
I will clean up the peanut-mess
and scraps of potato chips
that are gently swept underneath the couch
tomorrow - I say.
Today's tomorrow, or wait,
tomorrow's tomorrow ...
so, when should I vacuum the room,
I ask.
8. Write a poem about this site!!
Upon being forced to write about this site,
I just realised, that most of my cherished memories
have sailed away, and that pirate ships will probably
come along and steal some more. -
SiLeNtLy ScReAmInG
10 years ago1 Free verse with form
(Haiku)
A serene silence
and sense of tranquility
lingers before dawn.
I am but a humble
observer-
caught in the spell
of utter calm
created in the stillness
of the first rays of morning
Sun.
Dew Drops
coating every blade
of delicate grass-
Glistening,
like the fresh beginning,
of another new day.
2 Stationary
Oh writer's block,
You dastardly foe,
Why must we always,
Go toe to toe.
If only just once,
You could let me pass by,
Without halting my pen,
And leaving my well dry.
The ideas would flow freely,
If it wasn't for you,
So stop all this meddling,
And let my poetry through.
3 Crime or Prison
I wait-
with great anticipation,
for the day to come
when I can seek
Freedom,
From these prison walls.
One day I shall
Feel-
the sun's rays
cast upon me,
and I will bask
in their radiant glow.
From this prison
I shall leap,
From this seed-
My leaves will grow.
4 Mention poverty or Homelessness
Paper-
It's always been there,
the past,
the present,
and future.
Blank pages
begging for my ink to fill them.
Homeless,
meaningless words
striving to find themselves-
Define themselves.
Pen in hand,
my fingers are ready,
to bring them home.
5 Must include one rhyme
How does one define reality?
And separate it from fiction,
All life is but blurred lines,
Of mixing contradiction.
6 Sad
Mere seconds,
and the whole of eternity
Searching for starlight
Stolen-
from your eyes.
All those endless nights,
with nothing gained,
nothing found
Except-
lonely hearts
and empty skies.
7 Furniture
Searching in the scratches,
Of this battered old desk,
For some muse's inspiration,
To get through this task.
8 Write a poem about this site
P & Q
P & Q
Whatever shall we do with you?
You squabble and bicker,
And cause fights on the forum,
But when it comes to poetry,
You show the utmost decorum
P & Q
P & Q
Whatever shall we do with you?
