LTFR BATTLE THREAD

PLEASE ONLY POST ON THIS THREAD IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE 5 MEMBERS ENTERED IN THIS CLUB.

Michael
Moira
Zahra
Andrea
Larry

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The prompts must be used in order from 1-10, then repeating the cycle until time runs out. You cannot skip any numbers. MUST BE 1 TO 10.

The same member can only post up to 2 times in a row, they then must await a second person to post before they can reply.

I will post the prompts in the morning, along with the word GO.

Closing time is Friday 8pm. (UK time)

Good luck and enjoy.

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Your prompts are:

1. A formed poem

2. 26-28 syllables

3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

4. Use a song title for the poem's title.

5. Category must be nature

6. Free choice of any poem at all

7. 8-10 lines

8. Must include a body part in your poem/title

9. Must include a time or date

10. This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Go

#1 formed poem

Born to Win (Triolet)
It's almost four, I cannot sleep
I was born to write, born to win
My private thoughts are mine to keep
It's almost four, I cannot sleep
The reaper's reaped what reapers reap
To dream of rest would be a sin
It's almost four, I cannot sleep
I was born to write, born to win

2. 26-28 syllables

Rainbow masquerade
filters the midnight sky
with fluorescent crickets
as early dawn approaches-

Rise and shine....

3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

I've been laced with
intoxicating kisses
upon sultry nights,
as withering leaves
devour a breezy
muse tween lover's.

4. Use a song title for the poem's title.
Little Talks

Our little talks were like a flowing river
I the receiver, you my dear the giver
So close to my endless emotion,
yet separated by miles of ocean
As each drop of rain eventually returns
After rising toward the sacred light that burns
in life's journey we have taken walks
but I really have missed our little talks

5 . Nature

The mountains are calling
how can I turn a deaf ear
for on their heights
I discover the lay of the land
and the stark reality
of how small is a man

6. Free choice of any poem at all

Just the thought of your kiss
brings to me so much bliss.
looking deeply within your eyes
is as awesome as a sunrise

7. 8-10 lines

Arms Wide open

With my arms wide open
I welcome any stranger
ignoring all omen
looking past danger
I want to share a hug
to all the down and out
apathy gives a shrug
while love tends to shout

9. Must include a time or date

Winter kisses

Snow falling heavily
Couples holding hands
Kissing underneath the mistletoe
It's the perfect time
For love to bloom

10.This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Poet's Wisdom
Memoirs of souls
Where kept in numerous scrolls,
Passed down from one generation
to the next,
Penned in different types of text,

Wisdom weaved in ink
So children would rethink
Of future mistakes
& avoid a lot of stakes,

Poets bleed
With that they planted seeds
For the world could see
So no one would have to be
"Me"

#1 formed poem double Ottava Rima

Maple Tree

There once was a tree that evolved a small wing
or that is what the atheist would have us believe.
Random adaptation making such a thing
but it is just too hard for me to perceive.
The fall must have anticipated the spring
and knew the awesome task the seed must achieve
to fly far from the parent to fertile earth
to find needed space for intended rebirth

Creation goes on I've come to understand
the creator just rested on the seventh day
in every leaf that falls I see a hand
not exactly in precisely the same way
a single insect will think and consciously land
but by intelligence infinitely great
each living thing develops divinely traits
Creation, it goes on , who knows what awaits

2. 26-28 syllables

Beauty

Comes in all forms
From living art to dead art
But not all see
The hidden beauty within
That bleed to make it so

3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

Delightful Dishes

I hope you're lucky, best of wishes
I need your love, need your kisses
Craving delightful dishes
the ones my lonely heart misses.

4. Use a song title for the poem's title.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

You are a bridge over a raging river
I have faith You will always deliver
like structures I trust to get me across
safely without cost to me, or a loss
on every road You stand where there's a gap
all that is required is to follow Your map

2-5- Category must be nature

The willows cascade
Through the minds of the sick
Glittery is the light that shines
Through the eyes of nature

Mother Nature gives hope
To all within her grasp
Grass grown & animals roam
Liberty is the heart of her

Hope opens it's arms out
For the one that feeds the cubs
Tigers linger playfully underneath the sun
& humanity tears it apart for stores...

1-8 (Skipped above) body part

More than once
my erotic nature
has gotten me
into such trouble
that only my feet
was able to save
my stupid ass.

2 - 6 Free choice

There are those who say that only a poet
truly lives his life to the fullest
but I say that we who spend our time
composing rhyme and meter
or fastening the perfect expression
for what happened "just now"
sometimes miss out on what is going on
right before our crossed eyes.

2-9- Must include a time or date

Christmas

Season of joy
Day of rebirth,
Celebrating God
& his son
Seeing miracles appear
With the love of the Heavenly Father
That's what Christmas is all about

2 - 7 skipped just now !!!!!! 8-10 lines

Poets are no good at math
such as counting lines
but please forgive us these
minor transgressions
and we'll make then up in time

These interstitial poems out of order,
I hope, will allow the total count
to be used in our favor - I have no sorter!

2 - 8 Body part [next is 2 - 10]

Eye is not the beholder,
merely the recorder
passing along data
for the brain to re-order
from alpha to zeta
though times - errata

2-10- This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Unique Hearts

Unique hearts used to be full
But now it's dull
The queen dead
Now a second in command
Commands the remains
Stunning the kingdom
Now tatters lays of royalty

Poem 20

3 - 1. A formed poem

Alone - senryu
I am quite unlike
anyone else I have known;
I'm ok with that.

3 - 2. 26-28 syllables

Michael Nalley has
hidden store of genius;
only displayed
whenever he writes
from his seat of wisdom.

3-3.-Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

Ghost Kisses I give
To the air since you're gone
Walking underneath the moon
It's a miracle I don't trip down
many bridges
Since I don't see the now
but rather the past...

3-4- Use a song title for the poem's title.

Slow Me Down

From the anger
Seething in my veins,
From the revenge itching
to come out
The mistakes that cover the inner
sanctum
Fulling me with poison
Slow me down please

6. Free choice of any poem at all

Wind beneath my wings

The wind beneath my wings is the air I breathe
to see it destroyed would surely make me seethe.
Balance is important to each and every soul
To preserve our environment is such a worthy goal

Skipped poem

3-5-Category must be nature

Butterflies fly around
Innocent are they
Like fairy-tales told as a child
Beautiful if molded right
That's the cure
For true beauty

3-7*8-10 lines

Fake people

Fake nails;fake people
All the same
Shinny and pretty but not real
Deceiving people with beauty or talent
But their essence are like garbage
Good for absolutely nothing,
Except self harm for the victim
And gloating for themselves
Don't be deceived by a pretty face
Look beyond the surface

8. Must include a body part in your poem/title
Poetic Feet (Triolet)

It's time for us to stand on our own two feet
yet we all need a helping hand, now and then.
If our better half is gone we're not complete
It's time for us to stand on our own two feet
yet the number of our toes just add up to ten
It's time for us to stand on our own two feet
yet we all need a helping hand now and then

9. Must include a time or date

Happy Birthday Dad

July 24 1915 is a birthdate
I will soon most likely celebrate.
Though my father has crossed over
his remains rest under clover.
His memories live on in me
here at a town in Tennessee.

3 - 10. This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Who thinks the hi-jinks
of the lynx causes the minks
to lose care, slip from their lair
and so to dare, lose their very air?

4 - 1. Formed

What a Trip (Acrostic)

What the joker queen
has given to the club
and thence to all of us
that hears her chortled glee:

a new lease on shaky grounds

through fresh breath
reeling in dance and song
inspiring conversations
preposterous but charming

2. 26-28 syllables

Day Dreaming

I'm dreaming this afternoon
that you will be here so soon
to help us all save the day
with poems we can relay

3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.Judas Kiss

Have you ever thought of this?
You could betray with a kiss,
if silver is your only goal,
you may sell your immortal soul.

4. Use a song title for the poem's title.

You're all that I need

You have settled the ache
upon sorrowful bones,
patched cracks with cemented
words, designed to soothe
a broken bird.

I fly with wings of enchanted
feathers, for the spirit of our love
has set me free....

5. Category must be nature

Whispers of Dawn

Fernlings prance upon a dewy meadow,
for dawn encumbers blessings made
upon midnight's whisper.

Silence becomes
past tense to a raging, bullish,

thunderstorm....

4-6 Free Choice

It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

I'm sure it will stop soon
the holes not that big;
and besides, the bullet
went all the way through,
so you won't have to go
digging for it in my guts.

4 - 7 8-10 lines

It's 4 in the morning the oldest cliche
I know yet sleep evades me.

I reach over to an empty space
where you should be
wondering whether
you're asleep or also lying
wakeful, missing that fulsome
comfort you get from me
when you are gone.

NOTE 4-8 is next

4-8. Must include a body part in your poem/title

To Ear or not to Ear

Listen to the depths
of my silence.
I have yet to shower
your hearing and devilish
eyes with my words
and endless eye rolling.