FRAGMENTS OF POETRY'S POEMS AND SCORES #4

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* CONTEST STARTS 00:00 3 OCT PNQ TIME

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FOP'S TEAM LIST AND SCORES: 2384 (includes 1280 bonus points from HH)
The Queen: 8+8+8+8+9+7+8+8+8+8+8+9+7+8+
7+7+8+8+7+8+7+9+7+8+8+7
Mera Luna: 9+9+9+8+9+8+8+8+8+9+8+10+9+9+
8+9+9+8+8+10+9+8
Beautiful Chaos: 7+8+7+8+8+8+7+8+8+8+7+3+7+8+
7+8+8+7+7+7+8+8+8+7+8+7
Liquid Grace: 2+8+8 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Melissa xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
slighte: 10+9+9+9+9+9+8+9+8+10+10+9+9+8+10
+9+9+9+8+7+7+8+8+9+8+7+6
Captain Lonesome xxxxxxxxxxxx
Colm: 9+9+8+8+3+8+9+8+8+8+8+9+9+8+8+9+9+9
+8+8+7
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

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 FOUR 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!!

Wild Card- Round 6- Lap 24. (Grandmothers)

She doesn't last forever.
You all fail,
To realize,
That the wise,
Will be gone,
At the blink,
Of an eye.

She who raised,
The ones who,
Raised you,
Will crumple up,
Like paper,
When it comes,
To the end,
Of her,
Life time.

So please oh,
Please don't,
Take the old,
For granted.
Grandmothers,
Will soon be,
Gone before,
You even know,
They are.

Lap 24 - Round 7 - Insect

Lady beetles
are just pessimistic
flying mushrooms,
for their legs
just like their dots,
are multiplied
by blackness
and they're much
fatter, and less
delicious

Lap 24 - round 8 - acrostic

Love isn't a cheap lipstick smile that's
erased by the sight of a moneyless man -
thousands of cancerous butterflies
heap beneath your skin
as you scratch up your body, realising that
love gnaws further through the soul.

Lap 24- Round 9- Superhero OR mythological creatures OR celebrities

Fairy dust sprinkles,
The drops of rain,
Adding a sparkle,
To the muddy puddles.

Wings sprout on the sun,
Pink and blue intertwine,
As it sets into the,
Land of the Fairies.

Sweet and innocent smiles,
Flutter in the late evening wind.

Lap 24 - Round - 10 - Cooking

Who needs a cooking pot
and over-sized spoons
when microwaves
and instant noodles exist.

A modern lady doesn't.

Lap 24 - round 11 - nature

Starfishes tan
at the bottom of the sea,
waiting for their blurry sky
to blacken - as if a swarm
of locusts has eaten the clouds -
so they may synchronize
with their siblings
up above.

Lap 24- Round 12- Seven lines

I swear I saw your face again.
When I woke up in the morning,
My pillow case was drenched in tears.
The last time I saw you I was stronger,
But my fragile heart can't take anymore.
Lick up the last bit of happiness I have,
Won't you?

Lap 24 - Round 13 - Magic

I am the woman
you should fear

my tarot cards
narrate your future

and your dreams
of deaths divine

I hold your world
on the palm of my hand

I am the Gypsy Queen

Lap 25 - round 1 - grandmothers

I haven't seen my grandmother
in three years now, and I wonder
whether she remembers me.
Her memory isn't much
a walking stick anymore:
it fails to keep her
on the paths of clarity.

Sometimes she plucks a flower
and calls it Queen of the Night,
for she knows that I was born
in the presence of the moon,
but she forgot that I don't bloom
in her presence anymore.

Lap 25 Round 2 17 syllables

Precious Poet
Hand me a pen or a pencil,
So I can show you,
What I'm made of.

Lap 25 - Round 3 - aabba

Candy coated night
under the majestic light
Feed my hunger and desire
though I would settle for a sire
for this freeway is such a fright

Lap 25 - round 4 - free

You once gave me a ring
that could unlock
the gates to my soul
the way an iris does.
Its orb swirled
in red hues,
like when passion
and anger collide -
suffering
from mood swings
as your face revealed a smile
that looks like a giftwrap
of petals and fangs.

Lap 24 round 5 include the word squirrel

If I could climb up,
To get what I wanted.
And travel when I found,
Something better,
Like a squirrel,
Then I'd actually be,
...happy.

Lap 25 - Round - 6 Wild Card

And the moon
winked me goodnight
heaving in gulps
of lightning..

upon the starless
and charcoal
black
night sky,
serenading

the midnight atumn rain

Lap 25 - round 7 - insect

If I take the blades of a grasshopper
and the horn of a rhino beetle,
I'd create the perfect
heartbreaker-assasinator.
Such innocence glancing at him
with those onyx pits,
as he tries to catch
the insect that doesn't
quite look familiar,
trying to set it free
into the open world.
Well, he is free,
free to drill holes
in those perfect lips
and slice off
the fingers
that burnt
at my glowering cheeks
just yesterday.

Lap 25- round 8- Acrostic

Until I see you again
Please rest in peace
Out in the fields of love
Naive soul such as yours should confide.

Hustled to the very
End of your young life
Rested in the palm of his hands.

Granite faces
Realize what they've lost
As they lay you down
Veiled with respect and value
Enough to call you a hero.

Lap 25 - Round 9 - Mythological being

Of all the beasts
in my kingdom, cerberus
was the hardest to train.
His three heads
had three minds
that couldn't
remember my name,
let alone
how not
to maim
me. It goes
against my will,
but he now stands
with metres of chain,
and I don't exit
via the front door
anymore.

Lap 25 - round 10 - cooking

I always see pig heads on plates
with apples stuffed into their mouths,
and I wonder why their eyes are still open
as if it's alive and begging you
to eat that red, tasty ball first.
So I stole my little sister's plushy pig
and hanged it so its head would drop off,
then put it in the plastic oven
so its skin gets crunchy like kentucky chicken.

But with no money in my pockets,
I took my brother's tennis balls
and dipped them in some strawberry punch.
The oven alarmed, the pig is ready to be filled
and when I came back thirty minutes later
the pig was still there, staring at me
just like the pictures,

Little Luna has succeeded.

Lap 25- Round 11- Nature

I watched as the drops of rain,
Traveled down the clear car window.
It trickled and slid as lights whizzed by,
And I just watched.

I wished my soul was as pure,
As the freezing midnight winds.
They blow and whisper in the trees,
And I just wished.

I hoped my smile was as beautiful,
Like the leaves that are carried,
By the soft breeze hushed in the summer,
And I just hoped.

Lap 25 - Round 12 - Seven Lines

Learning to knit, I kept
dropping
stitches, or gaining them. I whined,
and told my mother to do it. She did,
and only when I had my brand new woolen
stitched up teddy bear did I decide that
I liked knitting.

Lap 25 - round 13 - magic

Blackberries and iPhones

If I was granted magic
I'd destroy all
that pings and rings,
for I am tired
of these machines
at the size
of a palm,
pretending to be
a wizard box
to chain yourself
with your friends

Lap 26- Round 1- Grandmothers

Gathers herself up just to get groceries.
Raises her voice above her high school sweet heart.
Always swears under her breath but denies it.
Mumbles for all of us to have fun.
Makes every event a magical one.
Yearns for a mother who cares for her responsibilities.

Lap 26 - Round 2 - 17 Syllables

Opening curtains, and waterfalls
of grey light drown
me
and my room.

Lap 26 - round 3 - aabba

PnQ has become my human-size tissue
and this contest is a lifetime's biggest issue
hippy happy sixty minutes are no fun
when all of your members are on the run
and thus, this shall be the downfall of virtue

Lap 26- Round 4- Free Verse

Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
I sat near the apple tree,
Tearing apart delicate flowers.
Mother is singing in the kitchen,
Her lilting voice floats to the front yard.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
I was listening to the sound,
Of the apples hitting the green ground.
It must be very angry,
Because no one enjoys being hit,
With ripe apples.

Lap 26 - Round 5 - Squirrel

In New Zealand, we
don't have exotic things
like pop tarts, raccoons
or squirrels. All we have
is marmite, kiwis,
and sheep. There are
some nice trees here,
I suppose, but there
is no Mordor, and really
not a lot else.

Lap 26 - round 6 - wild card

How many English dictionaries would I need
to blow you away with my wordy winds?
I know I have enough mythological books
with winged ladies, who will shorten your head

Lap 26- round 7- Insect

Flies and gnats, probably live life,
just too annoy, people who lack hygiene, and
those who carry food. sometimes I wish,
that i had a mini insect swatter,
too kill every little gnat and fly,
that strives to annoy.

Lap 26 - Round 8 - Acrostic

Tiny tree, what will you be? How
Round is your trunk? How
Eerie will you shadow be in Winter?
Engage with me, tree, I am eager to know.

Lap 26 - round 9 - Superhero OR mythological being OR movie star

I only remember this lady from Avatar
as a goddess of the bluest ocean,
running about with sea-winged dragons
as she travelled another world through his eyes

Lap 26- round 10- cooking

Bake my heart like bread,
and roast my soul like beef.
Cook me till I'm dead.

Lap 26 - Round 11 - Nature

When it snows,
I am a soft snow leopard,
and I am home
everywhere. The city
is my prowl. I am king
of the earth
when it snows. The people,
the animals, they part
the streets
for me. My paws
sink
into each bound,
while hurricanes erupt
onto my face.

Lap 26 - round 12 - seven lines

You wore the wind like a wedding ring
and tried to billow beyond crackles.
Were you an oarsman to steer direction
or the voyager who's lost his compass?
Ashore was where the sails becalmed,
so wept did the tempest in my palm,
as the lighthouse flares further into the sky.