M&MS BATTLE THREAD

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Potp
Narph
Adreamer
Jenni
Temps
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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. 34-36 syllables

3. Include "a flower" or "the sun" either by the words, or through metaphor.

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

5. Category must be Life/Society

6. Free choice of any poem at all

7. 5-7 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: senyru

heartbeats growing fast
hands intertwine, breaths linger
but it's just a dream

2) 34 - 36 syllables

Go away
there's nothing here.
Go away
save yourself, dear.

Nobody wants you
now.
You know it's true,
hun.

Go away
don't come back.
Go away
before I crack.

3).

I ran aside the sun,
hope- my constant companion,
as I warmed my bitter thoughts
and thought not about the end,
but about the anticipation
of a new world.

4).

Counting Stars.

How futile it seems,
to love who we don't know,
to pray for what doesn't plague us,
to dream under pregnant twilight skies.
Yet there is glory in finding meaning
in what time has often neglected.
So, let us hold each other, and count
not only the stars in our eyes,
by the stars we cannot see.

5)

We view the world in blacks,
grays, and whites while you're
the one who noticed color as
you look back.

We only drink the words
that others say to us
and somehow you managed
to become each of them.

How does that work,
how were you so special?
So beautiful, so wise?

We wanted to learn
from you and truly live
and it's a shame you're gone
we merely wish to see
the world through
your bright eyes.

Colors, emotions,
they make all the
difference.

6)

As I write this, there is a black rose
sitting on the dresser across the room
from me. Rain is lightly drizzling
from the rooftop. Words are just stringing
themselves along a bland page
that more than likely will never be
read again. But I want it to be read,
I want more people like you to find this
and realize just how perfect your life is -
even when things are not perfect.

I want it to be completely
understood. I want it to be

life changing.

7.)

Precious gold, you hold
a sweet mammoth,
a ribbed scepter in your summer hands.
Your tongue swivels, seeking
the delicate yellow skin.
Teeth mark territory, wet kernels
popping like daisies in your mouth.

8.)

Last night I painted my fingers red,
a slick shellack candying
ancestral claws.
The alcohol sunk deep,
the skin turned brittle
stiffened in the wake
of thickening gloss.

9).

9:17 pm, and my heart is sinking
into an ocean I cannot measure,
waters murky and faith too dark
to bring back safely.
I do not know how the world
sleeps tonight, but I pray,
with my lonely reflection,
that they too can hope for sunset...
for the promise of rising and not
drowning in our doubts.

10)

make a wish
hold it tight
close your eyes
just for tonight.

The world is dark
right now, hun
that's okay
soon returns the sun.

1.)
(Inverse Haiku)

Orange lover on my lips,
whispers of sunlight
linger in your fragrant drops.

2.)

The computer burnt a hole
as it sat, whirring in my lap.
It fell through my legs,
my charred edges puffed
with pride and sent a note:
To reddit, with love.

3)

My poor wilted rose,
innocent darling,
what happened here?

Your smile once
outshone the sun,
love was all you knew.

Stringbean,
don't go down
that path.

Don't follow in
her footsteps,
you're so much
better than that.

My poor wilted rose,
innocent darling,
what happened her?

4.)

Yellow Submarine

How bleak it must be,
beneath a limitless ebb and sway
to be a yellow capsule
filled with beetles gnawing
at your upgraded cabinetry.

5).

We are the herded ones,
salivating for direction,
thirsting for peaceful waters.
We follow any signs
that direct us toward a positive,
yet we fail to realize, that the
negatives in life
give us the willpower
to do more than just

survive.

6).

The pearls on her bracelet narrate a love story,
as the girl is fawned over by haughty dignitaries
who perceive her value as a genuine price of beauty.
But she, is a princess within, without a crown
or royal gait to grace into. She found the pearls
resting at shore, spit up by an aggrieved tide
that wanted to know love comes in more forms
than gems.

7)

Dreaming of the past
is all I have to keep me
from fearing what's
to come. Today, though,
shame is all I see.

8)

Eyes flutter shut
like butterfly wings
in the early sunrise

I know you're gone
but dreams of you
come so swiftly
that id rather live there

than to wake
another day.

Fingertips trace
the outline of what
was once your
silhouette

and somehow
even though it's all
over, you're still here

loving me

every step
of the way.

9).

I feel disoriented.
What day is it?
Why does my fish slink
away from aquarium light
and perform the jitterbug
at a hallucinatory hour?

[12:51 AM]

Blink, blink.
squint, squint
spectacles resting
on wood for hours.

And I can't remember
the last time I curled
up in bed without awaking to
sweats and cramped legs...

But I must finish tonight;
these words are thoughts
that haven't been killed off
yet.

10.

Sleep.

Sweet lullaby -
saying goodbye,
a long deep sigh.

Edit.

1). Tanka

No longer do you
petrify my rationale-
I riot against
desires inherently
evil in goal and mission.

2. 34-36 syllables

Catharsis -
A beautiful release of
emotion and passion.
Stripping me bare to the bone
of vulnerability.
Naked poetry.
Creation.

3).

Whenever thoughts drift to you,
I am greeted with a purity I am still
miles away from.
Your sincerity is foreign to my eyes
that spin around in merry-go-rounds of lies.
You are Easter lilies, for you always loved
praising with mighty trumpet blasts,
opening sweetness with outstretched arms.

4)

Little Plastic Castles (a song by Ani DeFranco)

There you go again
'round the corner,
back to sleep,
up before the sun

and I'm just a blur.

Only know my name
when you've had
six too many drinks
and your memory's
a bit more foggy.

There you go again,
'round the corner,
back to sleep,
up before the sun

and I'm just a blur.

5).

We seek each other like battleships
reconciling the conquests mapped out,
realizing we can speak above water
without submerging into solitude.

We mourn each other like seagulls
croaking and struggling to fly again,
for we know our life's journey ends
and will sing once more with all humanity.

6).

Lord, I beg for
summer rain to
wash the blood
off of their streets,
rinse terror from
childrens' eyes,
and shower the
country with
forgiveness.

But they still
want to spew hate,
erupt like volcanoes
and send death as
missiles...

Lord, the innocents
can only be saved by
your touch.
Please, rain down
love and let it heal
the wounded ones.

7)

I need to feel like
I'm falling.

To hear your story
in your own words
with your hypnotic voice.

Let me fall
please

8)

A mother sings a child a lullaby
you keep her from crying again,
I've got wiring lose in my head
cause I can't see the love in that.

Somewhere a father is playing
catch with his son, teaching him
the ropes and you are there too
keeping them together a while longer.

You always had a heart of gold,
so unique and untouched by the
darkness that can be the world,
take my hand and show me your way.

9).

I could never forget
December 9, 2012
when angels held you
tears alleviating pain.

I am so thankful
our last words were
"I love you" and that
our hearts connected
one last time.

And I am certain
you celebrated Christ's birth
with our Creator Himself...

10).

What are we
but places others
fail to see,
when we are travelers
and outsiders must pay a
small fee
to enter a wearied mind
and deconstruct what they find.

1)

the sun rose early today,
birds sang freely, roses danced,
and asked about you

2)

mom,

I borrowed your monkey sweatshirt
the one that smells like smoke,
with holes in the sleeve and
more memories than anything else.

Don't get mad,
it just reminds me of you

3).

I cared for you like
a flower, petals torn
by fierce winds.
And you never heard
my words of love,
simply being cradled
was enough during
through the onset of spring,
to the beginning
of fall.

4).

Never Say Never by: The Fray

We need to reinforce
what drives us,
refining our vocabulary
to include and surround
ideas that grant us
opportunities,
and never leave us
cornered.

5)

The sun will rise -
The moonlight will fade -
I am ready to run -
and forget their lies -
let's leave the world behind -
Follow that butterfly -
Just have fun -
who knows what we'll find -
I'll be yours -
And you'll be mine -
We'll laugh and love -
so step away from the doors -
off we go -
to see this place -
all its beauty -
or simply watch the show -

6)

There's a list of names from
all the people I never loved
that I keep tucked beneath
my mattress. Nothing hurts
anymore other than that
one thing you called me.

The one thing that was
so simple, so common,
the only word you ever used
just for me.

Words just aren't
the same

anymore

7.)

Don't you dare
try to stick your mysogyny
into my moment.
Don't you see,
I'm squeezing green avocados?
Trying to find one just hard enough
to chuck at you.

8)

Run in the rain
like we did when
we were young.

Stand in the puddles
letting your toes
wash themselves
of hatred in the
pure tears of
angels telling stories

of summers long gone
and rivers over flown.