Title Toss Voting

IMPORTANT:

Please send me the number of TWO poems you want to win.

1st - will get 10 points
2nd - will get 5 points.

This will hopefully prevent the poems being tied!

Winners announce in 24 hours (Saturday)
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#1
Title: Neon Lights

When stars fall like rain
like liquid drops of fluorescent moisture,
streets will be showered with neon,
people will be showered with neon,
everything will be showered with neon,
trees,
oceans,
even the seeds
of this apple
on the table
will be showered with neon
the glass of water
on the sink
will be showered with neon
my skin
will be showered with neon
The world will be showered
with neon
with effulgent lights,
with luminous lights
with swashes of
colorful glimmers
splashing everything with neon

and I,

I will just watch.

I'll watch the world
being suctioned,
distorted with light

I'll watch the universe
become a big lamp,
I'll watch the colorful lights
become like hotel signs
I'll just watch
but at some point in time
I'm afraid
everyone will have to
close their eyes.

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#2
Pictures and Pain

Pictures capture her pain
tears seem to sweep her mood,
Her little girl was gone in heaven
and a rosemary lays in her hands,
The coffin takes a bow
waves to everyone goodbye,
Because that's the last bed
her baby girl resides in.

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#3
Summer Ghost

Each path taken leaves
the choice of the path untaken;
that part of me that wanders away
into the summer, a ghost
perhaps to cross paths again
as strangers, as friends
or perhaps to cause the death of me
or be my salvation after all.

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#4
back in your arms.

you never offered to hold me;
i never wanted to be the codependent one,
a newborn cub never nursed by her mother,
who challenged the jungle
and falling, flaming rocks
alone.

you cannot father me; a daniel in the den,
you escape your own four walls, chase
opportunity though you cannot fly,
dreaming of a lover's limitless embrace.
(i could never replace hers).

i cannot indulge in a life you never fed me,
lucifer's cat-and-mouse game;
(my heart unthreads itself so
easily).

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#5
god's waiting room

i plunge into the san francisco water,
greying as angels neglect to sing, sinking
me while sunlight asphyxiates. i wait to ride
your pacific breath, but all i am choked by is
my reflection. you did not choose me. you don't
exist, do you? not even on earth, not even on
the demoralized icebergs of heaven. the tides
now drown me into a purgatory i could never swim
through.

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#6
Pendulums sway,

moonlighting as a cinnamon ponytail.
2AM becomes dabbling in past lusts,
no one could fall in love with addiction.
Coffee shops are saving graces for writers,
but loneliness cannot be described in a muse.

There is no metaphor for being the odd girl out.

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#7
Mosaic Waltz

Corridor's of light
flickered...

under a
vampiric
moon
I waltzed.

Bitten
in secrecy
our shadows
shaped like
a glass urn,
holding
ashes of
two lover's
skeletal
tears.

Eternal
silhouettes,
masquerading
upon a night
of misty veils
and perfumed
breezes.

Hushing a
silent,
respectful
courtesy,
my mate
kneels before
me-

A gentleman's
kiss of death,
two glass shadows
in the night....

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