FOP #2

Foppers, please see below the NEW prompts.
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NEW PROMPTS:
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PLEASE ONLY POST ON THIS THREAD IF YOU ARE PART OF THIS GROUP.

Prompts will be added tomorrow morning, and then edited each morning with a new set!

Remember, there are no rules on consecutive posting; members can post as many poems as they can, but double posts by another member for the same prompt, will not be counted.

ALL POEMS MUST BE NEWLY WRITTEN, AND MUST FOLLOW THE ORDER OF THE PROMPTS.

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PROMPTS:

PROMPTS:

1. Include a type of transport(car, train, etc) and mention the weather.

2. Must have 3 verses (at least 3 lines each)

3. Must mention royalty in some way (crown, heir, king, prince etc)

4. include the words, "first time" or, base the poem on the idea of a first time at something.

5. Wild Card

6. Formed Poem

7. Must mention a piece of clothing

8. Category: love

17.1 One animal and one number

You had me, a prey,
Between your tiger teeth
and two forepaws
Without even asking me
For a last request

17.2 Wild Card

You were a ship wrecked
by bad weather, sea storms
and sirens.

You were a sailor
greeting the sea
with open arms

You went down, down,
down

-like one does when
they fall inlove-

Breathless and offering
your life.

17.3 Life

Let me dream my way out,
out of this trafic jam, away

from the merciless sun
and the children this city
grows just around every
rounded corner

I can not promise you the purity
of all that's white

even as I sit in my sunday best
in my air conditioned and air purified
office thats two stories high

yet tweenty thousand feet higher
than their shattered lives
and way lower than
my dreams

Eastern man its so like you
to care about the innocence
of the body

but tell me,
what about the innocence
of the soul?

17. 4 Include club name

This is to the girl
You fell In love with a week
Before your 18th birthday

Matt brown hair,
Blush-kissed cheeks
And eye glasses too big
It made her eyes even

Bigger.

This is for the girl, the same
girl, you saw 10 years later,
at the club; short bleached hair
Dancing above straight
Shoulders, sun kissed
Cheeks and contacts lenses,
now.

This is for the girl
That you never told
How you wished for her
As you blew every single damned one
Of your 18 candles that night.

17.5 Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

Sayonara, she said, like a melody
igniting the wanderlust inside of you.
Restlessly, you denied her fading footsteps,
emitted a shy laugh from within your suit,
never letting go of her perfume.

17.6 Alcohol or Drugs

Beer bottles are litterd around the street
but the stilletoes seem not to be bothered
by the broken shards lying like broken hearts
as they are lost in the neon light
and cigarette smoke, arms chained
to one another like bff's, until
they find each other
in each other's bf's beds.

17.7 10-13 lines

ten or thirteen lines, I see,
don't think I'll even produce
more than three, or I could if I hit
enter
enter
aaaand, enter
but what good would that do,
a poem becomes a riddly-diddly-doo
and no one will understand
what gibberish I'm spilling.

17.8 Must include a metaphor or simile

I would love to write
more letters to you,
but the doves are dying
and I'm curling up like a grenade.

If, more cinematic, I would
love to apply lipstick
and sign my words with a kiss,

but this is me, full of headache
and imagery that's killing
the hopeless romantic
inside of me.

18.1 Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

Like a phoenix, he catches flame
but not reborn, not beautiful.
Soars through the skies
and dyes rooftops
a scorching red.

The family tries to save him
from his own flames, but he
angers at the sight of out buckets
and wavers our pleas
right out the window.

18.2 Wild Card

If I will ever marry, I will never marry
a timebomb, ready to bury its shards
inside of me, any second, from every corner.

I will not marry a man who's head
is full of ash, leaving trails
as he spits accusations at us.

18.3 category : Life

I lost my wife, sympathize.

Well, I lost my wife, and my job.
You sympathize.

Well, I lost my wife, and my job,
and my legs. Now sympathize.

And we point fingers at each other
for taking life for granted,
we point fingers at the brokenness
of our hearts, dismissing the shards
that hang from other bodies.

18.4 Must include the words of a club name on this site.

Beyond the dark, the moon is half-eaten,
the other half reflected in your teacup.
There's a crack at the edge, from when
you moved out of your parents' house
and gathered charity like a lost traveller.
The nomad in you felt at peace
by the window, with no one beside you,
no one to mourn with, or for.

18.5 form
There was a young girl called Mad
who decide she wanted to be bad
so she took her best doll
out for a stroll
then chucked it at her Dad

18.6 alcohol or drugs

Brewed with much love
Emitting a warm glow
Exiting through vomit
Reducing me to tears

18.7 10-13 lines

A gift from the angels
Brought to me by fate
I look at you and smile
Grateful to be your dad
Always trying your best
In everything you do
Loving and kind

My heart is bursting for you
You are such a little princess

Gifted from above
I believe in angels
Realization of real love
Lucky lucky Dad

18.8. Must include a metaphor or similie

The candle now lit
burns slowly flickering
in the gentle breeze
that lingers passed me
I watch that flame dance
and imagine another time
before electricity
As the wax rolls down
like lava leaving a volcano
I know life is short
than we would ever want it to be.

19.1 Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

As I lay on my back
spread eagled on the grass
that was desperately trying to take the strain
of this rigid frame
I felt twenty thousand blades
all down turned
gasping for sunlight
patience wearing thin.

19.2. Wild Card

juggling is hard
these balls all flying around
landing on my toes.

19.3 category : Life

life delivers joy
cradling a piece of me
daughters being scamps

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

Free spirits love life
non conforming peace keepers
hiding from your war

19.5 Form

Truth flies in the face of deceit
Rupturing any hope of decency
Ugly men commit sins against humanity
To honour a book from long ago
Hate breeds hate, love is dying

19.6 alcohol or drugs

You strap up your arm again
track marks upon track marks
like a farrowed field
this shot takes you away
from this awful place
to a new existence
found amongst your dreams
but you leave us all behind
watching you fall into disrepair
waiting for the day
we drop you in the hole.

19.7 10-13 lines

In this sodden trench
rats around my feet
holding my gun closely
my chance for freedom
Waiting nervously for the siren
to clamber over the top
crawl across dead comrades
who died in this bloodiest of wars
It may have been long ago
but we should never forget.

19.8. Must include a metaphor or similie

Dreaming in petals
dancing majestically
falling like snow
all over me

The smell evades my senses
my eyelids no longer heavy
am I really dreaming
or has death come for me.

20.1

Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

Why are you being a pig
she asked me twice in succession
she thinks I don't give a fig
care more for my possessions
I am not good at being open
a closed tome is how I move
I guess she was kinda hoping
that I had more to prove.

20.2 Wild Card

A chain smoker has
lungs of mud
breath of graves
and eyes so yellow
they are cat like
why give up on life
to light up one
then another
is it such a drag
when there is so much
fresh air to breath.

20.3 life

We point to the stars
hoping life's journey ends there
a place where we can meet
those who have departed
do we spend to long
yearning for an afterlife
when time is not on our side.

20.4 club name

The club of one is still burning
this furnace at the back of my mind
I sometimes hear it calling me
those times when I am alone
but with friends I can avoid
falling back into despair
a dose of medication always helps
to keep dark thoughts invading
there was a time that dwelling
was second only to moping
my reflection a mocking image
pointing fingers in my ears
but with love I trudge a new path
where my children play.

20.5 Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

We must never forget
About those that have falling
Relishing a life at home

I often look back
Searching for reasons

Why innocent men should die
Ripped away from this earth
Ordinary young men and women
Never again seeing home
God loves a performance.

20.6 alcohol or drugs

Rum is yum
in a truffle
but cause's a ruckuss
when in your glass
tossing shots like hand grenades
passed your burnt tonsils
shouting at your kids
when you are the invalid
a hopeless carcass
ruining my dreams.

20.7 10-13 lines

Maybe it was my fault
Allowing you to have that name
Dad should have said no
I lost that battle again
So now we have this nutcase
Only time will tell
Nobody is crazier

I love this mad little girl
She has me round her finger

Mum finds it funny
A thousand times I have tried
Dad loses this round today.

20.8. Must include a metaphor or similie

Ants go about their work
scurry like busy commuters
destination already known
orders from their queen
what if one ant refuses
and sits down for tea
stealing my lost morsels
feasting under the fridge.

21.1

Must mention ONE animal AND ONE NUMBER.

twelve alligators
rigid as bones in water
waiting for a meal

21.2 Wild Card

Daily bursts of joy
Answering my call
Delivering me a reason

21.3 category : Life

There must be evil
if we desire good
an answer to why
life can be so feeble
for every bomb
there is love
for every war
there is sacrifice
for every death
there is birth
I live my life
in the middle.

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

What is it to FOP
do FOPPERS bounce
surely they will trounce
those other clubs
There is a contest
where only the best
will write the most
and then will toast
fragments of poetry.

21.5. Formed poem (excluding haiku/senryu)

You
belong
to my heart
I share this love
knowing you love me
as much as I do you
fate had brought us together
if that phone call was never made
our eyes would not have found each other
our children's life only a distant dream
.

21.6 alcohol or drugs

Do you not know you are a dope
smoking weed
whilst trying to breath
your head is in a spin
your pupils the size of wheels
yet you think that you are cool
let me warn you now
pot rots brain cells
which means you are on a minus.

21.7 10-13 lines

Journeys through childhood
Are hard alone
Kindly hearts help
Especially those at home

I know you are afraid
Screaming inside your head

Just remember we love you
Our special little boy
You will never be alone.