INDEPENDANT TEAM #1

3.

Are we ever going to
stop hating and
begin to love?

If I was to die tomorrow
there would be a smile
on my face so that the
soul who gazed upon
my eyes were share
love instead of fear
or hatred.

4.

I heard the voice of the moon
call to me in a whisper as
angels scattered like pigeons
in a tree, there was a mystical
imaginative feeling that revealed
a pure nature that only I could feel.

5.

Acrostic

Joyously his name brings a smile,
Impulsively I giggle as he looks
My way.

6.

I'm getting angry
when I write of this
subject because it
brings horrible memories
to the surface.

There is nothing I despise
more than the drink of
vodka.

7.

It is getting close
for me to retire my
pen and get some
work done around
the house.

I have forgotten my
husbands coffee again
and surly he is getting
jealous of how I would
rather write than converse
with him....

8.

I felt nothing less than awful,
like a piece of moldy trash
left by the side of road.

Nothing can change the smell,
I spewed garbage the day
you verbally abused me
for the last time.

1. Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

Soaring above a roof, two doves
Spreading peace and trust
To the entire neighborhood.

2. Wild Card

When the fight started,
She hid in between two cars
cowering away from the crowd

always running

Always

But not today.

Today, she walked into the crowd
with firm steps and a forehead held high
Until she reached the metro

Today, she almost took the bus

to heaven.

3. category : Life

Life was a bottle of wine in our hands.
We drink it. We drank it.
Until their was not even a drop

left...

Just the bottle and nothing else.

4. Must include the words of a club name on this site. Yes, you can use the same club twice

Fire, if you stay with me,
I'll rise like a Phoenix rising,
from the ashes to the sun.
I'll be renew. I'll be young again,
or so I was told.

5. Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

Title: To The Ocean

Just another day that I wait in here at bay
Never knowing if your waters will come today
yet here I wait like a boat stationed in the shoreline
for waves to ebb me from this coastline

straight into the Ocean.

6. Alcohol or Drugs

Alcohol, or Drugs?
I pick none!
If I wanted to get drunk
or high
all I need is to write!

and off
I go...

7. 10-13 lines

Saffie, Saffie, why oh why?
Ten to thirteen lines? Really?
Can it not just be five?
Pretty, please? Okay, you win.
Ten to thirteen lines isn't hard
I'll just write them in one go.
May be not. . . I'll take a break.
I'll eat my lunch. I'll watch TV.
I'll come back and see THE CLUB
Write a gazillion poems more.

8. Must include a metaphor or similie

like a tie around my neck,
loosening slowly is how I feel today.
Somehow relaxed, even though,
I have a lot of numbers that doesn't add.
My calculator or my mind is malfunctioning
it needs new batteries, there is no doubt.

1. Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

At the zoo, a tiger in a cage
roaring like a kitten
Meowing and mauling in fear
While from outside the cage
One hyena watched it,
Laughing and laughing hysterically.

The tiger was me

And the hyena, was YOU.

2. Wild Card

My hair is what I am not, a rebel.
It rebels against the weather,
about whatever, or everything
it just rebels.

It surely complements me.

3._

It's a just a mess, a mess, my mom complains.
why can't you have it organize, cleaned?
I tried. I tried. I cleaned it. I organized it.
But it's always the same.
All I have it's clean clothes. No dirty clothes.
I left them in a chair. I tried to put them away.
I tried. I tried.
But It's so hard to find time to organized my mess.
I just accumulate them. I piled them up.
one by one, one after the other,
I'm sorry, I cannot find time to organized myself.

I'm such a mess.

4. Must include the words of a club name on this site. Yes, you can use the same club twice

FOP against The CLUB
who could write faster?
Who could write more?
Would it be FOP or THE CLUB?

I say none!

5. Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

Loop Poem

let me be
be what I want to be
be but myself
myself to the entire world
world that would see me
me for whom I am.

6. Alcohol or Drugs

Drugs hand in hand
distributed by man
in the corners
or the streets
drugging the world

with fake fantasies.

7. 10-13 lines

I lost the thrive to grow like a tree
Instead, I want to grow not like a tree
but like a baby being nurture by her mother,
by an environment with fresh air
unpolluted with crimes and rich with love
So I can grow and developed healthy
So I can grow and help my own race
So I can be someone in someone's life
So I can give to humanity more than just a shade
more than just a shade to rest.

8. Must include a metaphor or similie

She was thunder, striking like lighting
everyone feared her, except the sky.
Though, she felt attracted to metal,
Heavy metal,
the type that scratched ears with its screams,
and made her feel powerful from within.

1._

I watched from the garage,
How it rained. It poured cats and dogs.
They fell on the street like raindrops,
and then they liquified into the sewer.

But no one believed me.

2. Wild Card

I dream of an ocean
where dipping my toes
are mixed with giggles,
sand in my hair,
and getting back the
memory that I miss so much.

That was a happy night on the beach,
only next time I'll be alone.

3. category : Life

I want to see your smile
instead of shrouding death-
there is not enough land
to fill with souls washed
away by greed and hate.

4. Must include the words of a club name on this site. Yes, you can use the same club twice

I've laced Fragments of Poetry
below my bed, keeping secrets
to the eyes who will never understand
the words I try and piece together.

5. Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

Acrostic

Tears have fallen
In between laughter,
Releasing
Emotions before
Dawn

6. Alcohol or Drugs

Marijuana left me limp
under a tree for hours,
my body was numb,
speaking hurt my lips
and I never want to smoke
it again, but the smell was sweet
and laughter among friends
is a sentimental moment
I will never forget.

7. 10 or 13 lines

And he said, why do you stare at mirrors
always reflecting thoughts that aren't yours,
but your subconscious?
And I said, they are my image, being distorted,
always looked through different angles,
through different perspectives,
trying to find, not the one that looks better,
but the one that shows me what truly happened.
And he said, what truly happened in what?
I replied, that's what I want to see.

8. Must include a metaphor or similie

Don't you see it?

you were the knob she twisted,
just so she could opened the door
to her new office.

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