LTFR BATTLE THREAD

8-9. Must include a time or date

"It must be 5 o'clock somewhere"
she said, raising her glass with a smile
but the smile seemed weak
and the drink too strong
for so early in the day.

8-10. This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Once I rode to a coffee plantation
in the back of a fruit truck standing
amid watermelons, such elation
when fruit they were handing

Poem 80

9-1-A formed poem

MoriaBella (Acoustic)

Multiple personality
Organized to be "mother, wife,&foe"
Ready to guard or attack anything
Instictly guarded like a rose
Arising from Death to be an angel

Beware her lure
Exactly like a vixen mermaid
Lovely vioice
Lethal reasoning
A warning has been told

9-2-26-28 syllables
Regrettably yours

This letter had been penned
With ink that dripped from
a blade
said how sorry that person was,
Signed

Regrettably yours

9-3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

I found a stash of kisses
hidden behind my desk
filled with endless
hugs and quiet moments
alone-

This chocolate is divine....

9-4. Use a song title for the poem's title.

You are my Sunshine

Days are filled with darkness
clouds shall never depart,
the light within my soul
has been shadowed
by the memory of you.

9 - 5 nature

Evolutionary note

Vertebrates typically
have four limbs
because it provides
the greatest stability
for the least
use of resources

9-6 free choice

She picks up litter in the park
because she believes it right;
her son serves as a marine
says her welcome home banner.

She volunteers her time
to run the neighborhood
website and newsletter
donating her router space.

Her mother-in-law lives
in a specially built add-on;
her yard and garden glow
With year round blooms.

She puts up a sign
for a candidate of a color
not accepted in this red state;
for that she is damned.

When I see this intolerance
against one so worthy
I am shamed and so
I put up his sign as well.

9-7*8-10 lines

Mother

Why do you have to be so cold?
I'm your child regardless that you
didn't birth me
You raised me for 20 some years
Yet you can't call me "daughter"?
What is wrong with either of us?
Is it that I wasn't a boy?
Was it that you were so cold since born?
I don't know why I ponder this
For I know that it will always hurt like a
Silent blow

9-8-Must include a body part in your poem/title

Eyes that bleed in suffering
In cold realization that life is pain
Can't trust no more
Not even one's heart,

Mother you make me want to pick up a knife
Dig into my flesh once again
I've been sober for a year
Why do you have to evoke this suffering?

I've been used by you
O but you're so proud to show case me
"Good daughter doesn't party
Works and is polite
Stays by my side like a good child"
I hate being your lap dog
But in the end I thought you were better
No matter how many wounds you
Have inflicted on me through the years

9-9. Must include a time or date

I was born August 26 1955
a wonderful time to be alive
in the US of A
Every single day

9-10. This poem must rhyme at least once throughout.

Coming to the end of the relay race
Need about ten more for second place
With not much in common with Peppy La pew
Does it stink that bad to be number two?

10-1-A formed poem

Friends (Acrostic)

Forever loyal
Remaining there even after the scars are gone,
In trusting them I find light
Ending the darkness within,
Dreaming of a new home
Sacrificing the past for a new one

10-2*26-28 syllables

Smile

Queen why so down?
Smile bright for the war
has already been done,
The soldiers are home
No need to mope,
Just smile for the ones that
need hope

10-3. Include "a bridge(s)" or "a kiss(es)" either by the words, or through metaphor.

Crossing Bridges

Guardian Angel Crossing Bridge was in my mind
the most inspirational painting I could find
to remind me of the protection of a celestial being
with all the other things I sensed without seeing.

10-4. Use a song title for the poem's title.Dust

Nothing left of yesterday,
but memories of what we shared
The times you looked my way
as if you really ever cared.
The wrinkles they've found you
and covered your sad face.
To your nature you were true
until you had fallen from grace
As light has turned to dark
seems joy has turned to sorrow
dust has settled on its mark
I hope it rains tomorrow.

10-5-Category must be nature

Mate

The sun is married to the moon
Together they create an eclipse
Showing their love,
All things have one special mate
None can say they didn't have one,

Nature will always show the beauty
With it it comes in darkness and light
But put together only the beauty wins
With knowledge is the hope
To see what nature has always been

10-6-Free choice of any poem at all

Big Beautiful Women

I'm not a stick
who's a size 4,
I'm a woman with a lot of curves
& not ashamed one bit,
You may not see me gorgeous
Then again you're not married to me,

I wear heels like them skinny women
Sure I might break them
But I wear them too,
I make my money just like you
It doesn't matter that she has "beauty"
Since I'm the one with brains,
Daddy always said "Women with curves are always the best"
Since mommy was a big beautiful woman
I'm not ashamed one bit

10-7. 8-10 lines

Have you heard the word?

Of all the words I have heard
in all passion that's been stirred
while my soul freed liked a bird
Love is the one somehow blurred
Of all the expressions inferred
to honor feelings to which I referred
in the many events that have occurred
I will seek to understand it undeterred

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

Pulling My Leg

In logical fallacy the question begs
why do we seem to be always pulling legs
The truth is narrow, the path is straight.
Must the way of deception become our fate.

10-9-Must include a time or date

May 22,2013 was the day she took her life
Shattered our "perfect lives"
Made the Ice Queen cry,

Her daughters looked at me with sorrow
I couldn't help but wonder
If I should've been the one dead
They didn't need me
They needed mommy who loved
For I couldn't love even if it was to save
my life....

May 22,2014 I still mourned
I was a year sober
But I couldn't move on
Her spirit was trapped by my side....

July 4,2014 the day of independence
I set her free
I still miss the wife that made me smile
But now it's time to move on...

10-10

Alpha to Omega(Triolet)
I want to end with a strong finish
The alpha and omega so to speak
So that the quality will not diminish
I want to end with a strong finish
but my fresh approach is wearing thinnish
I never bothered to learn Latin nor Greek
I want to end with a strong finish
The alpha and omega so to speak

Poem 100
A strong finish indeed!