FRAGMENTS OF POETRY'S POEMS AND SCORES

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* CONTEST STARTS 00:00 3 OCT PNQ TIME

* MODERATORS: If this thread goes beyond 100, please don't lock it, but I will try to make new ones on time if need be. Also, please delete any posts here that aren't poems (unless they're from me!).

FOP'S TEAM LIST AND SCORES: 461
The Queen: 8+8+8+8+9+7+8+8+8+8
Mera Luna: 9+9+9+8+9+8+8+8+8+9
Beautiful Chaos: 7+8+7+8+8+8+7+8+8+8
Liquid Grace: 2+8+8 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Melissa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
slighte: 10+9+9+9+9+9+8+9+8+10+10
Captain Lonesome xxxxxxxxxxxx
Colm: 9+9+8+8
dollwithafrown xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Italian Stallion xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kiko xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
kips: 8+6+7+9
Lady Aureus Argentum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Poet Behind The Poem xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Faithless xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MyaEve: 7+7+7+7+9

THE THEMES FOR EACH ROUND
1. 21 syllables
2. Tanka
3. Water
4. Free verse
5. Include the word "microscope"
6. Wild card (pick any theme from this list)
7. Cats
8. aabab rhyme scheme
9. PnQ member
10. Alliterative verse
11. Five lines
12. Halloween
13. Toilet
Once all 13 rounds are completed by your team, go back to Round 1 again to start a new lap!

THE POINT SYSTEM
* Each submitted poem, if it complies with the theme of the round, will earn an easy 5 points straight away for your team, regardless of quality.
* Poems will also be roughly judged for quality- a maximum of 5 points can be earned for a high quality poem (giving a maximum total of 10).

HOW TO RACE
* The Great Marathon starts on 00:00 3 October, PnQ time.
* Anyone can start the race by submitting a poem for the first round in this thread.
* Another team member then completes the second round, and so on.
* A person who has submitted a poem MAY NOT submit another entry until SIX further rounds have been completed by other members of the team.
* All poems MUST be new and submitted here by the authors themselves.
* You may plot your team strategy within your club. CLUB LEADERS, it is up to you to do all you can to get your team's entries racing along. Bribe, threaten, shame, PM, blackmail...but get those rounds completed!
* With each entry, PLEASE LIST the Lap #, Round #, and the theme with your title.
* If all 13 rounds have been completed, the team can start from the Round 1 theme again to earn more points in further laps. These laps are unlimited.
* The team with the most points wins. Individual team members who gain the most points will also be recognised.
* It all ends on 00:00 9 October, PnQ time.

GOOD LUCK!!

Lap 1
Round 1 - 21 syllables

Footwear Affair

Some socks and shoes run
through bedrooms and time
in fear of being worn
like one-night-lovers

Lap 1 Round 2 - Tanka

Bubble Bath

Drunken goblins bathe-
in a jacuzzi of mud
slurping fairy ears
and nibbling at crunchy wings
behold, for it's happy hour

Lap 1 Round 3 - Water

The Front Line

There is nothing
beautiful
about the ocean.

It is merely
reflections - colours
of the sky,
the mountains,
and fishing boats.

The lines are thrown
and the haul is

rasping scales,
haunting eyes,
a stench,
and the knife.

There is nothing beautiful
about baited hooks,
oil spills,
and lives taken
on the home
courts. The colour
of the sea-sky
should be red.

Lap 1 Round 4 - Free verse

Cubicle, Pedestal

I would like to be something
that you would take your children to see
and take photographs of. I would stand
in my splendor, for minutes,
and be a great attraction,
and be something your children
might tell their children about.

At the moment I sit, in a crowded
almost murky cubicle. A person
behind my tries to stiffle a cough, a rustle
of a book annoys me. The tension
rings in my head. I will write myself out
far from here.

I will surely one day get the chance
to chance standing on a pedestal
made with my own hands.

Prompt5 - include microscope

The End

Under the microscope,
your deception cannot hide
I see it searing holes in your soul
And know by morning you'll be dead

Lost
To everything you swore you weren't
Drowning
In your watered down emotions

Lap 1
Round 6 Wildcard (Water..round 3)

Two parts 'Heart' and one part 'Obsession'

As I drink the wild air,
it contains the breath I take,
it could take my life unawares,
putting me in a state of deep sleep,
that stretches across eternity

I wish I could swim the ocean,
but the strength of the wind is seen,
as it rolled the ocean like a carpet,
sending it back with so much speed,
that could tear down a house.

I love to live in the sunshine,
when the sun casts its light on the ocean,
and its beauty appears so clearly,
bringing out the bright blue color,
that fascinates humanity.

As the ocean and sea roars,
pain and terror swept over me,
the rivers could drown or swallow me,
but the water refreshes me instead,
when I could limit its movement in a cup.

I would bathe with you,
and also cook with you;
I could wash with you,
and also make drinks with you,
because no one is enemies with you.

You cannot get enough of it,
because it is a friend to all.
It is two parts 'Heart',
and one part 'Obsession',
as it is in the formula 'H2O'

Lap 1 - Round 7 Cats
__________

Autumn Fire Goodbyes (Elegy)
---

Beneath the brisk autumn fire sky
An unwavering totem is laid to rest
Photos become a lingering goodbye
Tonight marks her heavenly quest

Lap 1- Round 8 Aabab Rhyming Scheme

The Bitter Cold.

Cold wind whispering through the trees,
Please oh please don't let me freeze.
Nature, nature, be my friend.
I'm begging of you on my knees,
That you won't let this be my very end.

Lap 1
Round 9 - PnQ Member

The Lost Princess

Princess, I wonder where your temples are.
Perhaps somewhere along the Nile
where fruits hang so heavy
they could reach your feet;
or perhaps somewhere closer to your brow
where your skin unveils creases
of longing and nothingness.

Lap 1 - Round 10 - Alliterative verse

Sanguine Folds

Soft as silk, her lips are.

(though solid are her eyes
seductive in her glancing sight.)

Salaciously scandalous-
Sanguine folds;
Sweet as dessert wines,
Brushing against mine

(Scrubbing off), I'm going to skip
Over this weakness lodged in my head

(The tantalizing taste of your lips)

Lap 1 - Round 11 - Five lines

A Change In Technique

You know, I could write essays about how much
I hate your smile, your laugh, your smell, your
every move. You hug me, but you hold on
too long.
I used to love it when you did that.

Round 1 - Lap 12 - Halloween

The allure of the dark road ahead,
although familiar, was always greater when
you were fanged, and when around
any corner you could find a band
of pirates, ghouls or zombies,
with possibly macabre results.
This soup of fearful excitement
climaxed when tip-toeing along
Sinnotts lane, toward the old rectory
and past Crockeen graveyard, where the ghost
of Lady Francis was said to lament.

Now, nights do not seem as dark. Walking
toward the old rectory is not only a challenge
for the bravest of vampires.
I do have company; Lady Francis, sometimes,
watches on from a distance. And I look closely

and see that she has your eyes,
and that more than anything, chills

Round13~Lap1~Toilet

Life
Like a toilet
Stagnant water
Waiting for a kind soul to flush
Wash away the debris
of our emotional bowels
Refreshing everything

Round 1
Lap 1 - 21 Syllables

My Sunshine

Since you took away My Sunshine
I cry each and every night
please bring back My Sunshine.

Lap# 2 - Round# 2 - Tanka

Autumn's Echo

With tame breath fall speaks
Chimes of a beautiful death
Gracefully undone
Listless in the planned decent
Cherish the ballet of life

Lap 2 - round 3 - water

Tsunami

There's no man alive

that doesn't drown in your watery gown
or sail across your unruly chest

doors burst open like mouths
when you tumble over our thresholds

and screams are jarred by your arms
when you press them against your belly

as if sounds can slip through your navel
and roll off your tongue again

The air is naked now - walls have caved in
and the widowed windows spit out your aftertaste

the world has become the wild womb
where waves and voices collide

as you spew the fishnets landwards
to catch more slippery sailors

there's no man alive

Lap 2 - Round 4 - Free verse

Sunsets Lock Me into Life

Today, I wake up with a migraine.

Last night was a blur,
and so were the streetlights at 5:30 a.m.
That badly repaired stretch of pavement
didn't help either, as I groaned and leaned
against my hallway wall.

Wrapped with a shrinking closeness from the air,
and a chilling touch of truth behind my door
I wandered through my front yard
where the sunbeams shine and warm
cruising in solemn silence, recklessly.

Consumed by the kiss of a passing breeze
I hastened my steps in hopes to find him there,
upon the moss green ground, laid he
with eyes like deep wells, of adoring tears
flowing fast down his then sullen cheeks.

Another night that I made my way through

...without him

Lap 2, Round 5 - Use the word 'microscope'

Case Study #12

I live in
disease. We

are

more than carbon and
chemicals,
but

you

are merely protons,
chromatins and
a lack
of white blood cells.

If I could
put you under
the microscope,
cross-examine
your faults,
I could
pinpoint the
disease of
you.

The doctors could
tell me
how to part
myself from

you.

I live in
disease, and
you are the cause.

Lap 2, Round 6. Wild Card. (Five Lines.)

Gone in my life, but here in my heart.

Swallowing the pain,
trying to forget your melodious
voice echos in my fragile mind,
hating that your gone
but your warmth still lingers.

Lap 2~Round 7~Cats

Morning Rituals

Russian blue
Why do you mew?
Your food is full
Water too

Had I a snake
I'd not be awake
Sexily silent
Where sleep is at stake

Lap 2
Round-8 Aabab rhyme scheme

Do You Know?

Do you know how much I trusted you?
Do you know how much I liked you?
Do you know how much I would have dared?
Do you know how much I loved you?
I fear you would never know how much I cared.

Do you know what I saw in you?
Do you know how free I felt with you?
Do you know the degree of my present pain?
Do you know what satisfaction I got from you?
I fear you would never feel the same again.

Do you know how much I want to walk with you?
Do you know how much I want to pray with you?
Do you know how much I want to hold your hand?
Do you know how much I want to be with you?
I fear you would never be able to fully understand.

Lap 2 - Round 9
Poem about another P&Q member

Leader, Scrouge

I wish I could shake his hand, vigourously,
and squeeze it tight like a clamp to
let him know I mean business.

Or be his family councillor
(he has a rather large family)
to help him remember his duties. Im sure
he could be a great man, attending
to the needs of his flock -
making changes, giving presents
with a virtual ribbon on top.

But I cannot shake the hand of a phantom.
I can only hope, as he flits in hidden dens and
amongst shadows of the European night, that he
could be Scrouge, a Prodigal Father,
and save this Tiny Tim.

Lap 2 - round 10 - alliterative piece

Papparazzi probably pee like penguins
while prancing past pop princesses
whose pictures portray peer pressure
as paper puppets perpetuated in printers

They potter around like paranoid puppies
peeking at pumped up princes
prepared to package push-up presents
as pants pulverize like a pressurized pinata

* FOP is kicking out Kiko, Lady Aureus Argentum and Dollwithafrown :)

That's fine, but you only need to kick out two members as you haven't used your Amnesty yet.

From the next lap, your wait number is reduced to 5 rounds (i.e. Colm can start Round 1).

Lap 2 Round 11 - 5 Lines

Vampire Vixen From Venus

Vampire vixen from Venus
running around plucking young folks
she'll come knockin' late at night
with her tongue darting in and out
of her slippery, sinewy mouth.

Please eliminate Dollwithafrown and Kiko.

Lap 2 - Round 12 - Halloween

This Is Halloween

Jack's got a secret
on this most frightful night,
looking for children to scare.

He's rabid and wild
and laiden with fright -
to add haunts to the midnight air.

Jack's got a smile
as he stalks through the streets,
a twisted grin that makes them scream.

He saunters down alleys,
through windows and heads,
spicing fear to the childrens' sweet dreams.

Jack's got a knife
to cut his wicked face
that laughs as kiddies squirm.

This is Jack's night,
The Halloween chase,
a long awaited feed of worm.

Jack's got a secret,
would you like to hear it..?

Scoreboard updated.

You still have 3 HH to use (apart from the general ones).

Lap 2 - Round 13 - Toilet

A Delightful Soiree

With the flick of a button
Your worries are flushed away
It funnels down the entrance
Seemingly ready for a soiree

What once was contaminated
Gleams a beautiful pearl
Toilet waits in silent patiently
For the next swirl and twirl

Lap 3~Round 1~21 Syllables

I touched you
Flesh had never felt so cold
They were right
You were not human
I must go

Lap 3
Round 2- Tanka

The Prodigal Son's Return

Shout across the plains,
blow your trumpet all the way,
kill the fattest beast,
wine and dine and drink with me,
my lost son has come back home.

Lap 3 - round 3 - water

How many bodies have you filled
to promise us a life in watercolour?

Our faces fade into a drop of desire
and we've become caverns and ripples
by the slightest wave of cerulean.

We are maidens that breathe like fountains
and you keep tossing paint and myths
across our chests, longing to shape
myriad muses that lift their gown
by the slightest wave of cerulean.

Your hands are gods above the horizon
and our waists become temples
by the slightest wave of cerulean

We are bodies of an ocean-far dream
and our lives are evermore out of reach

Lap 3 - Round 4 - Free verse

Mistress of the Moon

and there she is,
in all her beauty
with crimson lips,
kohl-rimmed eyes;
of outraging curves,
and mesmeric laugh

a white skinned goddess
of melancholia
perhaps a poet
with a slighty
heavier heart

a grotesque reflection
of naivety and nothingness
may her innocence
be a shield
like a small umbrella
in the rain

Can't Resist Your Evil. Lap 3, Round 5, Include the word microscope.

Stare into my soul,
Through my clear blue eyes,
With your torturous microscope.

Swallow me whole,
With your terrifying lies,
Specks of truth drifting like clouds.

Take me under control,
Always promising me a prize,
Promises continue to be broken..

Like my heart.

HAPPY HOUR # 2 STARTS NOW! Deal # 2

Lap 3 - Round 6 - Wild card (cats)

Leaving The Door Locked

Just because
I told you I am a cat,
does not mean I want
to chase after wool,
to whine for food

all the time, or to let
you put your hands
all over me.

I prefer a life
outside, away
from televisions,
bills, and your touch.

There is air out here, for
breathing and for butterflies.
It's filled with forests,
rain, and freedom.

Lap 3 - Round 7 - Cats

I was sure there was more to being a cat than
lazing into the afternoon hours, playing
like a kitten come evening. Looking
to be fed every 6 o'clock,
but I have observed my cat
for seven years, and now begin to realise that
the more to being a cat,
is acknowledging the beauty of being one.

Lap3~Round8~aabab rhyme

I never cried
Though I tried
It just felt wrong
Too much pride
I could not drown my heart's true song

Lap 3 - Roud 9 - PnQ Member

Beautiful Chaos

An adventurous spirit
with a frank courageous heart
many princely suitors
have vied for her hand
while none of them
could look her

in the eye.

She is the epitome
of a life well
lived,

....though, not in his eyes

Lap 3 Round 10 alliterative

My Bat Benny

I bet, if i were to babble about
bats below my bed, you would be
beside yourself in bewilderment.
But it's true, my bat is my beloved.

Bearing the title of Benny, his
blind bravados go beyond brilliant.
Benny the bat is not bad. He boards
beside my bookcase and broods
beneath my bed.

Benny is the best. We never bicker
because he never bites. His big,
black wings are beautiful, but
he is barely a bird. He is a bat.

The bat that burrows below my bed.

Lap 4 - round 11 - five lines

My memories are like stubborn children;
running away from the bathtub
and hiding between the bushes -
brushing their dirt against thorns
in an attempt to smell of blood and roses.