FOP#5

1. Formed with free

I hope that I never have
to write a haiku again. This formula
of forms has run dry.

One last time, or if
I get to post another round,
one more haiku left.

2. Stationary

The globe of the earth sat
atop the school library, promising
the world on its axis, charting culture
with lines of latitude, longditude and
its equator circumfrence.

3. Crime

Spiderman perches,
webbed vigilantie busy
policing city crime.

4. Poverty

The poverty of her womb was the
catalyst for nature's way to reward
an unwanted pregnancy with a loving
mother.

5.Rhyme

Help, somebody call 911,
even though its almost done,
a crazier forum you will not find,
everybody here has lost their mind!

6. Sad

I only hope that the silence on
your tongue is not the checkered
flag of the dream I had dared to dream.

7. Furniture

The sofa lay as inviting as
a bed to two lovers, with little
blood left in their head.

8. This site

The perks, inaccuracies, every bit
make me hate it and love it
at the same, confessional
time.

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

My phone is on silent
I need to try and think
I am fed up with writing
pieces that stink

competitive edge
alludes to writing nonsense
to win no trophy

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

a pen is for poets
fabulous scribbles on parchment
I have a pencil
and an old envelope

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

Is a crime of passion
still in fashion
I never hear anymore
of screwing someone to death
on the floor

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

Every time I leave the house
I am homeless
it is a miracle
the locks aren't changed

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

It is time
to write about cats
to rhyme with rats
this is how low
I have sunk

6. Category : sad

I weep whilst the rocket
fires your way
knowing retaliation
is coming back
a peace envoy
doesn't win any prizes
with me

7. Include a piece of furniture

Hello again my chair
I am going to stare
at the wooden frame
and those curved legs
and wonder what
those stains are?

8. Write a poem about this site!!

we are all scatty
at least a bit batty
so much drivel
written in a hurry
but I musn't worry
I am not the only one

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

In this ode
I will hide
an acrostic

Why you ask
Hell its prompt one again
You cant see me

something John Cena would say

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

A pen is not mightier
than your shiny sword
because you can lop off my head
with your blade
the best I could muster
is to poke you in the eye

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

There is a prison
called a contest
where for four hours
I have been failing this test
to write poetry that is the best

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

To have nought
is not too bad
if you have love
so just be glad
you have children

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

just one rhyme you say?
did you know by the way
that your prompts have made me sway
to chuck in rhyme, most of the day

6. Category : sad

Sometimes it hits us
A scene of great sadness
Destroys remaining joy

7. Include a piece of furniture

Its my bloody chair
I haven't seen you in a while
you think I don't care
but now I have parked my arse
again on your pad
you can stop the relentless
creaking, proving you are sad.

8. Write a poem about this site!!

When is the last time
that members on line needed two pages
I am on here every day
and haven't seen it for ages

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

Another minute
crept like a caterpillar,
quiet, and sneaky

making me wonder
when the clock will strike eleven
and bloom like a butterfly:
the announcement of an end.

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

I thought to be romantic
and folded paper planes
to fly to your window,
but it got stuck in your
underwear, that hung outside,
patriotic, proud of its home.

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

This country hasn't known guillotines
for at least a handful of years - or so I hope,
(history has never been up my alley),

these days I want to learn again
from past mistakes, and find my fingers
chopped, one by one, by axes
as sharp as a guillotine,
scolding me for being an ignorant
first-world child.

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

Barefooted, he ran
through the market -

teenagers point,
adults think him crazy,

but what would they do
if their daughter was grabbed

to be sold,
unable to pay the rent?

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

I vent as much as I can
but the words elude me as I fan
more stardust ino my imagination.

6. Category : sad

Sometime, somewhere,
a heart is burnt.

You can place incense
atop a mountain,

but don't apologize,
ever.

7. Include a piece of furniture

I peek from behind my curtains
and see the neighbour, sleeping
in his chair. This is the time for me
to turn on the radio, and dance.

8. Write a poem about this site!!

The previous poem is a lie.

I don't dance.

But this site, this site
is a brewing ground of lies,
or do we just brand it fiction?

1.

I'll return to the palm
of my land, someday,
And you'll be home.

Wait for me, with birds flying south
And history rising like trees from their soils
I have left my roots, like a song, on your balcony
Their pains, their poems, their wars.

Wait, we still have before us endless,
endless roads.

--

2.

She was cream coloured
stationery, tucked in
the safety of his pocket,
moments before
being fed to the fire.

---

3.

You held a gun to every
poem I've ever written,
and still I'm left with nothing
but words as my prison.

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4.

You're on the 5 o'clock news
with concrete for a home, bed
and pillow, yet still you talk
about your homeland and not
your home.

----

5.

Remember me, when words dawn
across your tired, tired forehead
When poetry is lost from your voice
and every book is well, well read
and on your desk unfinished poems,
on your conscious words left unsaid
and the song of an empty bed,
an empty bed.

----

6.

She died, every night,
for seven years under
his body and never said
a single prayer.

----

7.

Your oak tree desk
is one artistic piece
of corpse.

----

8.

We are quite a bunch
of imaginary named
people of who and what
we'd like to be most.

1. Formed with free

The raindrops are constant
but get drowned out by the intermittant
thunder from above.

Storm clouds rumble
and electrify themselves
in a terrible showing
of strength.

But in the end, the wind dies down
and all is right with the skies again.

2. Stationary

I wrote my first poem in the dim
light of a nokia colour phone, as I
waited for a text message recprication
that never came. I turned the light
to a battered pencil and scribbled
history on a disused envelop corner.

3. Crime.

The only time
I do crime
is when I won't get caught,
cos cleaning grime
and prison slime
is not what I had sought.

4. Poverty

The polish couldn't save the brown
shoes from showing their bruises,
and suit was patched at the elbows.
All the interview panel needed to know
was said before he opened his mouth
to speak.

5. Rhyme

The abab scheme
is sure to haunt my dreams.
Along with all the other worthless
pieces of junk I prostitute myself
to write.

6. Sad

I will whoop with delight when
eleven comes, put my feet up
and have some tea: But in the morning
I will miss the next set of prompts
that never were.

7. Furniture

My cat, in her younger days, jumped
onto the dinner table once, but scampered
when the roar I roared sent her
reeling as if sore.

8. This site

Countdown begins, back
to weekly contest threads and
happy birthdays in 10, 9, 8...

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

Please, shut me up,
lick my lips like an envelope,
end my sorrow with bubblegum
and toothpaste - I don't mind,
sorrow has touched my body
enough times tonight,

be gentle, and wild,
like a dormant lion ...

we're alone tonight.

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

Tears blur the envelope
and I'm already starting to forget
which country it originated from,
as my memory's kidnapped
by alcohol, but tomorrow morning
I'll solve the puzzle again.

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

He cut off contact, as if
I was a war criminal, whilst all I did
was protect myself - readied the canons
to attack his Trojan Horse,
dusted of the dungeons
to lock up his heart.

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

Every object in my room ...
from the porcelain seashell
to the dirty socks beneath my bed
once had a home.

Sold, as if not worthy of a pricetag,
as if, but refugees ... now
they are but passengers
in someone else's home.

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

One, two, three, four,
please let me pour some more
of this gibberish - whilst I'm sweating
from the laptop heat, counting
till the clock screams defeat.

6. Category : sad

The saddest thing of all,
is seeing a once familiar face
go down, on your message list,
and drown further, because
you were to proud to say

hello

7. Include a piece of furniture

If my furniture
was made of bamboo -
that table in the corner, for example -
I'd probably act like a pandabear all day
and nibble, wondering if this is how it feels
to be close to my roots.

8. Write a poem about this site!!

August 8th - 2014,
a tragic day in the wastelands
of PnQ ... words have suffered,
falcons peck at remains
of metaphors, and the poets
are sleeping on fruitless grounds.

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

This is the last time
I hide a form in free verse
it is one or the other
I cant think of anything worse

children like to rhyme
as we age we love to vent
poetry suffers

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

Pen writes emotions
yet has difficulty with tone
punctuation shows the way
and expresses my mood

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

Jail is a hotel
for prisoners who
have no cares
unless they face parole

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

To be skint
or out of home
is the lowest of the low
unless you lose a loved one
that you would trade your house for

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

how can I rhyme
at this bloody time
I have written more
crap in a day
than ever before

6. Category : sad

The sky is crying
my daughter said
with sadness in her eyes
no it is raining
I pointed out
as I kissed her goodbye

7. Include a piece of furniture

My chair is in hiding
fed up of the constant
streams of pretend poems
describing its past
and its present

8. Write a poem about this site!!

It is almost time
to shut the door
this speed poetry over
I cant do anymore!!

1. Formed poem - but must be placed inside a free style poem. So write a normal poem, but add in a form somewhere throughout the poem.

almost done, so
you, yea you, please,
eat some yoghurt

and sleep, for I make no sense now
(who would eat yoghurt in the middle of the night?)
wondering if I can still write a whole round
in 3 minutes, before TC strikes again

2. Include an item of stationery, pencil, paper etc.

One pencil in my bed,
two pieces of paper on my cushion
and you - nowhere to be found.

3. Include a crime, or mention prison, or both!

He's a bandit who stole more
than gold, more than hearts,
and less than thought.

He was just another one
bypassing in my life,
hoping for a miracle.

4. Mention homelessness, or poverty.

Let me be
homeless for once,
feel pity for the pigeons
and peck at bread
as if it were gold.

5. Must include at least one rhyme.

Let me rhyme time with rhyme again
because that's the only word inside of my mind
as only two minutes are left
and I don't want to be dead yet.

6. Category : sad

Sorrow is an anchor,
permanently dragging from your heart
and pulling you further into sea
until veins are torn apart.

7. Include a piece of furniture

This chair is a little bit too small
for my ass and my fingers
a little bit too slow
for a poem

8. Write a poem about this site!!

PnQ, farewell, my dear,
I won't come back until
tomorrow

Formed with free

I cannot format

poems here the way I would
like and
so am

free to ex-
per-
i-ment
in whatever way I want.

I think I've earned it.
I think we all left some part
of ourselves in here.

2. Stationary

The card you made me
with glitter and jewels is worn from
the amount of times I have kissed it
goodnight.

3. Crime

The worst crime is sitting by and
watching thousands die. I wish
there was something I could do.
I wish my teaching hands could cover
the world.

4. Poverty

The smell alerted me to the presence
of the homeless man, sleeping in
his own filth, long before
I spotted him.

5. Rhyme

Its here, the time that
I break out bat and cat
because every rhyme counts,
if even an ounce.

6. Sad

I wish you were here to blow out
the candle I lit for you in the hollow
cavern of my heart.

7. Furniture

The chair will thank me when I
free myself from its grasp, and allow it
to work on ridding itself of the groove made
by 2 years of pizza.

8. The site

PnQ I love you so, don't ever change
and, drunk as this may sound, I
wish The Club happiness too!

(Those pesky pirates!)

STOP! TIME UP