FRAGMENTS OF POETRY'S POEMS AND SCORES #2

Lap 11~Round 6~Wild card (Free Verse)

I don't wish
to lay stagnant
and forgotten

Like some lost wonder
of the world

While I breathe
I will burn
Love
The fuel to the fire

Lap 11 Round 7 - Cats

When I was six
I found Max sleeping
on the sidewalk.
I thought 'that's
a funny place to

sleep,

Maxey' and tried
to wake him.
Then Mum brought me
back inside.

Lap 11 - Round 8 - aabab

The tissues are beside the lynx spray
on my locker, in disarray
scattered on untidy stacks of books
that at nobody ever looks,
as I drift sleepily off, away.

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lap 11 - round 9 - PnQ member

There's a desk in my room
where I used to draw his face
in charcoal, and ended up
smudging the paper
in a black hole;
there's a mirror I've stared
enough at, to know
that I can't step into
another world ...

And when I cleanse all of this,
wringing out the cloth
in an attempt to wring out
my thoughts

I see her

in soap bubbles,
in my water-wrinkled hands,
in the corners of the cloth.

She's everywhere, reminding me
of hardships that dissolve
in water, like the dirt that I swept
off my alarm clock.

She's become the face
staring back at me, when I draw
and the woman in the mirror
I wish to be.

She's Myryn, the mother
that's with me
when I cleanse
my memories.

Lap 11 Round 10 - Alliterative

When the trumpets trill
and violins vibrato,
flutes float above me.
Shostakovich's Second Symphony -
the captivating catch and climax -
berates me from breath.
The overwhelming orchestra
plays final chord and closure.
I'm clapping, crying
sitting silently,
holding breath as they bow.

Lap 11- Round 11 - Five lines

Hey now hey, hear what I say
don't let this marathon ruin your brains
tonight, imma take you to a party
we gonna drink 'em pinacoladas
oh yeah, sassy senoritas!

Lap 11 - round 12 - halloween

It's halloween
and it's raining
into our pumpkin baskets,
candies go with the flow
down the street
and off the hills,
and there's a river of toddlers
meandering behind those goodies.

Lap 11 Round 13 - Toilet

Bravery isn't a sky jump
or telling a bully
to stop.
Bravery isn't
having your sister hit you,
or falling off your bike
and bleeding.
It's not a telling off
from Mum, nor telling
your crush
you like them. Bravery
is dropping your ring
down the toilet
and going in after it.

Lap 12 - Round 1 - 21 syllables

Touch a rock
As she comes
though her eyelids
couldn't shield
the waterfalls

in her iris.

Lap 12 - round 2 - tanka

Red fortune lanterns
lean against glancing windows
for Moon Festival -
a white rabbit is curled up
in the sky, jaded by shine

Lap 12 - Round 3 - Water

If I could swim
one thousand oceans
a whole life would have
passed me by.

By then, it would be
long enough
to forget you. For
the colour of your eyes
will be the ocean,
the smell of your skin -
the ocean, and your voice
will be overhead gulls
and falling waves. And I
will be buried at sea.

Lap 12 - Round 4 -

Unknown to some
like apparitions,
seen and gone,
wearing their wounds
like stars,
were the soldiers
of the damned.

Lap 12 - round 5 - microscope

My little sister asked me today
why the moon is so small
and far away.
She wants to steal it
from that endless sky
and eat it, so her tummy
shines with silver delight.

When I told her
that the sea would anger
when she steals
their only source of light
that doesn't sink its burning tiara
into its body

she became so red and furious
I thought she was the bloody ocean itself

So I took a fistful of spinach
and put it under the microscope
for her to see

pointing at the white circles
and telling her that
the moon is in everything
that lives.

Now she's grown up
healthy and content
for eating so much moons
and spinach these years.

Lap 12 - Round 6 - Cats

Pt II.

But I climbed out the window
to crawl to the pavement.
Max the kitten was
still
there. Still, silent.
I scratched Maxey's belly
for the last time,
my hand sticky
from fur stuck
to blood. "Maxey,"
I asked, "have you
been painting
with red?"
I didn't know that Max
was dead.

LAp 12 - Round 7 - Cats

I have a tiny tawny tabby
Who likes to alternate
Between scratching
Uphill and downhill

She loves double-wides
But mostly my fridge-sized,
computer rack

Lap 12 - round 8 - aabab rhyme scheme

I have books scattered everywhere
full of vampires and kelpies ready to ensnare
The pages are alive, I tell you because I know
how monsters grab the corners of covers, and rise into the air
with hungry eyes shot blood-red, it's a barbecue you'll undergo

Lap 12 - Round 9 - PnQ Member

Somehow, when Luna
calls me a vampire
I can only giggle.
And when she writes
her shining words
I can only smile
and breathe, for
I know I know one
who can pull beauty
out of nowhere and
put it on the page
in front of me.

Lap 12 - Round 8 - aabab

Cynnie is the sunlight that brightens up my day
I dont care if she's moody, imma love her anyway
But dear, she reminds me of a witch elf that snare
I have to stick my butt of my monitor, she would say
For this marathon had got her into a wide flare

Lap 12 - round 11 - five lines

I sat beside you while your eyes peered at the maths,
a cup of coffee, longing to feel your fingers
behind my ear again, or perhaps your lips upon mine.
But I am merely a black hole that sucks the calculations
of love, even when I offer to be your cup of tea

Lap 12 - Round 12 - Halloween

Last year the goblins came
and knocked on the door.
As did
the cotton skeletons,
the toilet paper mummies,
and the face-painted witches.
I held out the bowl
of halloween candy, and told them
"one each." The greedy
little undeads
all
shoved their grubby
little claws in for more
and ran.
This year I'm making toffees
mixed with glue.

13. Toilet

It's Saturday night
and my fiancee is cooking for me.
At times like these I wished
I could have a toilet in each
and every room of the house,
at least he understands
the need of my tummy.

Lap 13 - round 1 - 21 syllables

High heels click clack
on the street, and
I want to pierce them
into those tanned
breakable
legs

Lap 13 - Round 2 - Tanka

I take the scissors,
holding the world in my hands.
Opening slowly,
and then close. To the floor falls
bright red hair, no longer mine.

Lap 13 - Round 3. Water

They say there's no difference
in Spa of Chaud Fontaine
but the latter tastes
so much better
because it was the first thing
you bought to me
They say there's no difference
between Spa or Chaud Fontaine
but the latter tastes
so much better
because it was the first thing
you bought for me

Lap 13 - round 4 - free verse

Magic mushrooms
grow on the landscape of my body
and peek out of my ear.
Their scent is oh so
addictive, like the tresses
of a nymph
and I will keep dreaming
and eat more
of these thick-headed
magicians.

Lap 13 - Round 5 - Microscope

Science Lab Six
is for biology. When
school's out, though,
the microscopes
have lessons of
their own. When it's
dark, they clamber out
of their cupboard,
all twenty-six of them,
and turn the music
up. Don't ask me how,
but the microscopes dance
their microscopic dance
to release the pressures
of a hard day
at work.

Lap 13 - Round 6. Wild Card- Alliterative verse

Mama Mia mimics Madonna's muscles makeup and body movements in front of a marble, mosaic-framed mirror on magenta margined, and shaped mermaid wall like a marmalade machine, milling and mashing in madness, from morning to midnight in a memorable, mesmerizing manner of mimicking.

Lap 13 - round 7 - cats

It's Sunday afternoon
and my claws are already clipped.
No one's home and the tv
only shows me how Jerry
always tortures Tom.
They never speak
but the music says it all
and sometimes I just want to
live in music, too.
The room is silent anyway,
only burps fill the air
and sometimes the sound
of scratches on the sofa.
I feel like Garfield
during a Sunday afternoon,
and wonder why I can't
jump off the roofs
like a jaguar
and become the silhouette
of super cat in the moon.

Jerry grabbed the cheese again -
just nine boring lives to go.

Lap 13 - Round 8 - aabab

We have love and time to kill,
so we drive and drive around the hills.
Then we're at the top, above all the lights
Standing on the edge, no fear still -
For in this moment, all is bright.

Lap 13 - Round 9. Pnq Member

Where's the beautiful Cleopatra gone
did she turn into another lawyer in litigant
I have to walk further to another plan
Or should I run to the cops and pass my complain
For she,s just an innocent bystander at Cairo.s breaking dawn

Lap 13 - round 10 - alliterative

Mexican monkeys
mambo merrily
and mangoes plummet
into mouths
when carnival captures
the taste of tradition.

Lap 13 - Round 11 - Five Lines

In the dream I was a spider,
guarding doorways, crawling
down backs, through hair,
and into beds. Shrink says
I want to frighten people.

Lap 13 - Round 12. Halloween

Vampires flap their wings
in despair
but they don't exist
and so they don't fly
neither will children
even when they dress
like batman

Lap 13 - round 13 - toilet

My brother must have eaten
eggs and beans
for they're all shaped
nicely into clay sculptures
and glimmer proudly
in the hall of toilet-art.

Lap 14 - Round 1 - 21 Syllables

I confess, I am not afraid
of dying, only of waking
up in Devil's Hell.

Lap 14 - Round 2. tanka

The sun sinks its mouth
into a wild ocean dream
Birds of paradise
fly into the fires of shine:
land beyond the horizon

Lap 14 - round 3 - water

There's water on the rooftops
and water cascading down the mountains,
drops that appear at the edges of petals
and drops in the cuts of your mouth

But nothing's more beautiful
than the drops of dreams
that flow from the world in your eyes
and hold on to your skin,
trying to not seperate
from your presence
but evaporating
into your world again.

Lap 14 - Round 4 - Free Verse

In my kingdom, I keep
whatever I please.
My lounge is home
to my dragon, who flies
in and out
as he pleases. My lake
finds the loch ness
and in my forest, are
gorgons, harpies, and
minotaur. In my ocean, the sirens
and chimaera play.
Cerberus guards my castle,
so I feel safe knowing
no human can enter
my world.