MOONLIGHT MUSES' POEMS AND SCORES #2

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* CONTEST STARTS 00:00 3 OCT PNQ TIME

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MM'S TEAM LIST AND SCORES: 1278 (190 bonus points from HHs)
Melpomene: 9+8+8+8+8+8+7+8+9+9+8+8+9+8
Lu: 9+7+8+7+10+9+9+8+8+8+8+8+7+9+8+8+7+8+
9+7+7
Courageous Dreamer: 8+8+7+8+7+8+8+8+8+6+9+8+8+9+8+7+8+6+7
Britt: 7+7+8+8+7+6+7+8+7+6+7+8+8+6+9+7+
8+7+8+8+8+7+7+7+0+7+7
Yaki: 8+7+7+7+7+7+8+7+7+8+7+7+8+9+7+7+9+8+7
+7
Nevi Versals: 7+8+8+7+9+9+6
Narphangu: 9+8+8+8+7+9+8+8+9+9+9+9+9+0+9+9+8+7
RunningWithTheWind [MaryAnne]: 0
AJ: 8+7+9+7+7+7+6+8+8+7+6+9+8+8
Chelsey: 3+7+7

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).

Lap 10
Round 1
21 Syllables

You'll often find her
with an apron tied around
her pencil waist, smudged with
a nights' work.

Lap 10
Round 2
Tanka

She spreads 'tween fingers
like Australian wildfire
print-making 'pon skin.
Sometimes more pain than pleasure.
She is creativity.

Lap 10
Round 3
Water..

Free Like water,
I crave to be.

the way its so infinite,
either in a river or
in the ocean..

so the sun could take me within
his arms..and placed me
in the clouds..

and as soon as,
me and my siblings
get too much too handle..

we fall back to earth,
and they call us

Rain

Lap 10

Round 4 Free verse

You always say you'll take
two big marshmallows,
and request a handful of small ones
yet you never drink the cocoa
I never force upon you.
But once I ask for your opinion,
you shove away the mug
as though it's full of poison.
Maybe one day, your taste buds
will decide to make smarter choices.

Lap 10
Round 5
Microscope

I looked at the heart
with a microscope eye,
pored over the tenuous
planes of heaving muscle,
and sat studying the pull
and push, the squeezing
rhythm that keeps
a body in motion.
I saw no moment, no pause,
no skipping candied heels
flung high above the head,
nor a crackling line
dividing atriums.
Vena cava stayed vena cava,
no names inscribed, oceans
crossed or territory marked.
Just the rhythmic stumblings
unperturbed and plodding
the same mystified beat
as everyone else.

Lap 10
Round 6
Wild Card - 21 Syllables

she smacked her lips together,
for creamy peanut butter
stuck like velcro
to her teeth.

Lap 10
Round 7
Cats

Simba

I found you
shaking beneath
the old elm tree,
your fur a matted tangle
of burrs and twigs.
A beautiful blend
of orange and white swirled
through your tail
and your eyes reflected
the sun in the most amazing
collage of hues.

You snarled and growled
and for a quick moment
your eyes lifted in
hesitation, as if to say,
please love me.

Lap 10
Round 8
aabab rhyme scheme

Get into the groove
what do you have to prove?
I'll just sing this song
and do a little move
you'll jump in before too long.

Lap 10
Round 9
PnQ Member
----

Yaki,

Somedays like a fortune teller
I read your poems as palmistry,

a heart line - wounded,
growing daisies
that were too lazy
to lift her chin

and yet...

..she'd still
find beauty in the
stragest of places.

With May,
you spoke to me -
a pen of inspiration.

Writing of
an artists sacrafices
while knitting my
pencil a jumper and

it was then I realized,
our thoughts were two
plums 'pon an apricot tree.

Lap 10
Round 10

Allteritative verse

pim and pam
were picking pumpkins
in a pretty purple garden
the sun set came sooner
than soon was
so pim and pam
ditched daisies
to do dirty dutties in the dark..

Lap 10
Round 11
Five Lines

I watch as excitement tingles within,
my stomach twisted like a pretzel -
hungry for a win against the snakes
and a clinch in the division,
we're in beast mode!

Lap 10
Round 12
Halloween

I spy yellow horns of corn...
nibbled specks of candy
torn from stocks
unheard of, mystery
farms, oh, if my arms
could just detect
corny locations I'd
locomotive and select
as many kernels as I
chose, and all the
tricksters treating whose
misleading costumes
begged for corn
would be met with
most haughty scorn,
for I, not they would be
the lord, the goddess of
the candy corn.

Oops.

Lap 10
Round 13
Toilet

Pizza, pizza, me oh my
now that I've eaten you
I feel I shall die

stomach gurgling,
knees growing weak
my future on the thrown
is growing quite bleak

oh Lord please help me
I'm feeling some pain
open up dear ole potty
here comes the rain

Lap 11
Round 1
21 Syllables

Hellhounds circle lips
like savage confessions -
Lost within a heart
of rusting scarabs.

Lap 11
Round 2
Tanka

Sometimes I try to
believe that simplicity
will give birth to a
perfectly shaped heartfelt poem
but metaphors ruin the lines

Lap 11
Round 3
Water

I sat 'neath a tree
as I sunk my teeth into
my watermelons'
light syrup sweetness -

quenching my thirst
in the warm July sun.

Lap 11
Round 4
Free Verse

Shoulder me
along your back
and carry sighs
inside your pack
of wandering thoughts
I told to you
the hills are wide
and full of stones
but hold my weight
I'll carry yours
inside my heart
where desperate
pleas will cradle
all your tears.

.

Lap 11
Round 5
Include the word "microscope"

Lying beneath the moonlight
your hand in mine,
kissing your tender lips
as sweet as cherry wine

The stars a cozy blanket,
the grass an island of our own
the moon keeping secrets
as he sits upon his thrown

Time is hushed silent
as romance burns so bright
making love on our island
beneath a starry moonlight night

We don't need a microscope
to see our hearts belong
together

Lap 11
Round 6
Wild Card -Alliteration.

Beer bottles bloomed
breathing bitter scents
of a breathless night before
where boys broke boomboxes
with blaring beats.

Lap 11
Round 7
Cats

Perhaps,because I named
you after the muse of death..
and she thought,
she might as well come and get you

or maybe because I trusted that,
you had already be-friended the pups..

eitherways banshee,
I wish you were still here.

Lap 11
Round 8
Aabab Rhyme

I stare you in the eyes,
and then realize I'm not all that wise,
for I cannot through a rhyme together for this round,
you should know by now you are all of which I despise -
looks as though words were found.

Lap 11
Round 9
PnQ Member

Late night chats
coated in flour,
fingers pressing keys,
pressing dough...
baked poems,
I remember,
yours was the first
I loved.

Lap 11
Round 10
Alliterative verse

Wandering winds wildly whip
while wildflowers wither beneath
harsh winds, when tornado weather arrives

Lap 11
Round 11
5 lines

He once begged me
to conjure myself hope -
as though I a magican
could be as manipulative
as an illusionist.

Lap 11
Round 12
Halloween

She was telling everyone
she wanted to dress
as a beauty queen
for halloween..

and she did,
she did look stunning too..
I admit..
But deep inside,
she too knew..
that the 'B' on her
forehead..

was the 'b'
of bitch.

Lap 11
Round 13
Toilet

You may call him your best friend
for taking care of your problems -
yet he can be a pain your ass
if he swallows your cellphone whole -
or wait, maybe you're the dumb ass
for taking it to the potty with you,
now he's you're worst enemy.

Your scoreboard updated.

You still have 3 personal HH remaining.

ALRIGHTY. FIRST HAPPY HOUR DEAL 1 BEGIN NOW!
CHARRRGEEE MMs!!!!

Lap 12
Round 1
21 Syllables

Fake satyrs make
my day crazy, but hey I'm lazy and
I love their assonances.

Lap 12
Round 2
Tanka

He is no sunshine
nor a rainbow of colors
yet he forever
gives me such sweet happiness
with a sincere simple smile

Lap 12
Round 3
Water

Sometimes I wish
to peer through the eyes
of a yellow tang -
I'd marry a starfish
and show opposites attract
for we'd be yin & yang
only canary and colbalt.

I'd nestle myself on
the tentacle of an octopus
and ride the waves,
bubbles brushing scales
as I ignored sharks
charming teeth while
plucking my star
seaweed and coral.

Lap 12
Round 4
Free verse

Free verse

Every night after work,
I walk home in the dark..

I enjoy it,
the way my thoughts
align along with the
clouds in the sky..

there is something
so beautiful,
in the breeze
at this hour..

I feel pure,
and serene...

I find myself
constantly..
in twenty-minute-old
walk.

but,
some people
can't control their animals.

and he grabbed my leg,
as if I was the most delicious meal ever..

no,
he didn't pierce my flesh.
the owner was there.

but,
It will never be the same..
my peaceful night-walk
has turned into fear.

.

Lap 12
Round 5
Using the word 'microscope'

Through a microscope
I see the future in sight -
though a mere speckle,
it glistens like glitter
for I'm nothing less of an
optimistic dreamer.

Lap 12
Round 6
Wildcard (Tanka)

I'm really having
trouble posting tankas now.
Abby, Abby, why?!
My head hurts a lot more than
if a sledgehammer hit it.

Lap 12
Round 7
Cats

Tiny little creatures
that hold such mystery
in their eyes

just when you think
they are going to nestle
upon your lap
they pounce ...

capturing a fly
in their paws,
then scurrying off
with lunch

Lap 12
Round 8
aabab

I could smell the bushland burn,
With morning I was peering into an urn,
The radio spoke of a mere suntan
yet a koala was cherry within my fern
-was this the arsonist plan?

Lap 12
Round 9

PnQ member

Mel

Allow me to be cliche,
to stand in line with all those
who have written about her...

add me to the list,
of those who tried
using metaphors
and symbolism
except,
that I won't do that...

I'm not here to praise
her verses,
not to compliment
her eyes...

why get difficult
and describe her
as the meaning of the
word pulchritudinous...

when she is a simplistic beauty
that is content
with being called
'Beautiful'