Random Writing # 2

Kick started by STAR : "So here’s another writing thing similar to MA prompts, just mention anything random and the person below uses it in their poem, whether as a prompt or just mentioning it. It’s all up to you, have fun ^_^"

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Last post by Mr. Darcy:

Cherry blossom possum
Had a memory that was rotten
Which made all his friends laugh
They laughed like a giraffe
And at his very pink bottom
But by the very next day
He'd completely forgotten

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Vicarious

I cant believe we're already in the 2nd thread!!!!

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i open my eyes on a brown
cold sofa my arm, very short,
hanging from the side.

i left my body up, trying
to get up but my feet
cant reach the ground.

i hear weeping
from the room next door;
a woman's voice.

"I can't believe he's gone"

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rainbow clouds

I like to invent worlds in my head
When reality becomes too heavy.
They're free of sadness and dread-
The perfect place for me.
They're full of joy and smiles,
Where no one let's you down.
Happiness is like a style,
One that never goes out.
So whenever life becomes too loud,
I invent worlds with blue skies and rainbow clouds.

Vanilla beans.

Beans beans beans
Green ones
L o n g ones
Old ones
Good ones
Baked ones
made ones
poor bums
Parp some
Wet ones
Beans beans beans

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Eiderdown

you covered me
with the softest quilt,
and when i wanted to
run from everything good,
you reminded me
that i deserve the gentlest
kind of love.

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a bad trumpet player

He plays in front of the courthouse
every day, cold or heat of sun,
his trumpet much richer than his notes
I'm sure he's proud of it, self-taught man,
but just once I'd like him to play
"As Time Goes By" in tune.
Still, you must remember this.

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Greeting a returning comrad

it was a quiet dawn just
like so many before it, my
eyes dazed in the morning
haze, the coffee in my hand
struggled to get in my system,
as my grip got steadier I felt
you grab my shoulder firmly.

I didn't know you would return,
with you came joy accompanied
by sorrow.
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your wandering eyes finally met mine;
i shook my head and incredulous,
you searched the room, once more.

i handed you his uniform and medals,
you collapsed onto the floor,
still incredulous, you kept your eyes
glued to the door.

"were you with him?" you asked.
"yes" i said, all the while hoping
that soon enough.

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suspect

I've had to layer myself
lately, not with fabric, but
with care and caution,
reminding myself that, even
though your daggers
aren't as lethal,
you're still a chameleon;
I can't let myself be
comfortable with you
for too long.

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a mirage in the desert

It wasn't the wind,
I was sure I heard
the trees murmuring.

A jasmine tree to another,
retelling the story of the girl
from far lands, the one
who followed death while
seeking shelter in a mirage.

Found home in his underworld,
her soul couldn't rest in the pitch
darkness he shoveled himself
within.

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Fractured phobias

Moments after the tunnel came
tumbling down, crushing my car
I was reminded, in my final breath,
of the similar dark horror I felt, being trapped in a lift as a child:
the very life being sucked from my lungs

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* A pocket full of hearts

Title: A pocket full of hearts

I was just doing laundry
But man!
Even though my mamma taught me strongly
to check the pockets in my jeans,
I forgot to do just that with yours
And so I heard the washing machine
pump pump pump Bang!

Bloody He..

Prompt : out of imagination

Plucked from the middle
'gin'

It makes me smile
the more I drink
It makes me dial
and so I think

I think of water
how deep it goes
I think of fire
How much it grows

It grows in lines
Along the road
It grows in vines
across my toes

Trailing lives
Become a mess
Sailing lives
A voyage blessed

Prompt: Left in a pram

(With apologies to Joni Mitchell for the Woodstock parody)

I came upon a child of god
lying alone in his pram
I asked where were his parents
this he told me:
We were going down to Yasgar's Farm
they were going to join a rock & roll band
but they dropped some window-pain
it set their souls free
and they left me be.

I asked him if I could take him
raise him as my own.
Well maybe it's the time of year,
or maybe it's the age of the babe
but he accepted me and grew
into a beautiful child and man.

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cordless phone

cutting my landline
cable set me free from all

those nuisance callers

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Prompt: through my WW2 binoculars