Ode To Wood Burning Smoke (10) 8

by AngelaLuisaCory

I watch your waspish tendrils
Wend their way up high...

Ghost of a Love (7) 8 HM

by Liz

She was never one to cry publicly,
but during the eulogy...

The Cockatrice and the Pharaoh's Barge (8) 8 WIN

by Larry Chamberlin

Water slapped against banks of the Blue Nile;
something huge caused an unnatural wake...

Anxiety (6) 8 HM

by Rob

Anxiety
It's a place way deep inside you...

For Ben and Kireasha: My Inspirations (10) 8

by Maple Tree

Nothing
drips faster...

The road called life (8) 8

by Dagmar Wilson

The road called life
we all have to walk...

The writing's on the wall... (Senryu) (10) 8

by Mr. Darcy

A soiled placard blows
across a nuclear wasteland...

A Lover's test (Shakespearean sonnet) (HM) (6) 8 HM

by Mr. Darcy

Why do my lady's lips glisten with blood?
Just yesterday we kissed like lovers do...

Gutted (10) 8

by Maple Tree

I'm trying to keep her alive-
The anguish a mother consumes...

Heart Inflamed (two English sestets segueing into syntuit) (8) 8 HM

by Larry Chamberlin

Unquenched fire under a deluge;
pouring cool love onto hot coal...

Words from the Bottom of a Shot Glass (Triolet) (7) 8 HM

by Maple Tree

Sobering words escape my pen
silence, a writers addiction...

Cold Turkey... (syntuit) (8) 8

by Mr. Darcy

I knew addiction
the day I struggled to log...