Poetry Game

I'm not sure if this is the best place to do this but ok...this is how the game works. The first person, me, will write a topic. the next person has to write a poem, any type, about that topic and then writes a topic for the next person. It works really well and you never know what you will come up with. ready...

edit: if someone fails to leave a topic, just create a new one.
topic: watching the news

Well I wrote this earlier. Does it count. *ps if you like it please review by reading it in my poem list*

I am like them

Do you see that child
Sleeping underneath the bench?
Do you feel that laughter
Dying within his young throat?

You might not even know
Who he is, but I assure you.
That even though he may
Not exist to you, I am like him.

Every morning when I turn on
The news and I have time to watch.
I listen as another mother is
Begging for someone to find her child.

Another teenage runaway thinking
She could find her own place.
You might not even know who
They are, but I am like them.

There was another clipping
In the middle of the newspaper.
It didn’t make front page but
That doesn’t mean it wasn't there.

Between the black and white words
And that tiny school photo.
Yet another child being killed
At the hands of a predator.

They’re getting younger just
About every single day that goes by.

Did you taste that piece of cake
That you had for desert last night?
I would think it must have been
Good but I can’t put that away.

I don’t know how I could forget
About that baby who is neglected.
And the younger siblings who just
Want something to eat.

They may not exist to you
But I assure you, I am like them.

While somebody is being taken
Into another stranger’s car,
I wonder what made me so special
To not have been grabbed that way.

And I sometimes feel restricted just
As she must feel when she’s alone.
I promise you that somebody
Might be calling for you to help them.

Another person being bullied
In between classes and at home.
You may not know who they are
But I assure you, you are like them.

Topic: Haunted

ooo nice, it doesnt matter if its from before

here is mine,

there are ghosts
surrounding me
not the shady specters
but my history

everywhere i go
and every thing i do
i see my loser self
from oh so long ago

ill tell you this
im haunted by my past
people ignoring
and talking behind my back

but im above all that
for i always try
to do what is right
to leave my past
behind

hmm just made that up. could use some tweaking
anyway

topic: late night snacks

anyone???

Grandfather clock

Grounding of bones,
Ears twingle in fright,
Dare I venture the stairs?
A dark, cold night,

Wrapped in my sheets,
Warmth seeping from fear,
Crunching of a rib cage,
An image of a sneer,

Dragged from the domain,
Hammering heart beat,
Steps creeping trecherous,
Stranger's midnight treat,

Reaching for the banister,
My shaky, clammy hands,
Petrified of the next scene,
But it's what curiosity demands,

Creep to the doorway,
Fear of slipping ridge,
To see my father leeming over,
The humming of the fridge.....

ok my turn, Bird Cage.

i remember my freedom,
the days i used to sing,
now that is forced,
and no feeling is there in.

i remeber the happy days,
when i could soar in the sky,
but now i can barely move,
and my only wish is to die.

i used to have a family,
was sorounded by my friends,
but now they look at me from afar,
behind the branch that bends.

i used to sing and fly and play,
as happily can be,
but then i was captured by you,
never again to be free.

all the things that i do now are to keep me alive,
all the things that you see have no emotion no part,
you don't care for me and just see me in a cursed cage,
to you i am nothing more than a heart filled with many darts.

so while you see my,
a human in a birds caged,
you know that you have my heart,
and break it with your rage.

right i dont no where that came from but now its my turn right....
erm.... right the next subject shall be tiger with a broken heart. a bit of a challenge....lets see what you come up with.

She wanders in the jungle,
she's suddently alone,
The rage builds inside her,
what to do is unknown.

Nobody saw it coming,
those damn hunters shots,
And their stupid uniforms,
dark green with light spots.

Now her family is gone,
she wanders alone in the woods,
She lies down to rest,
and thinks about how man took "theirs" goods

so what's the next topic?

how about chocolate milk

um chocolate milk.....

Delicious, brown, creamy and rich
down my throat it flys
i'd love to drink more of it
but it goes straight to my theighs

next topic:
forced love

y did u do this to me?
do i look fool to u?
i never wanted forced love
do i need to tell u too???

u made fun of me
and took me 4 granted.
u uprooted our relationship
which i had planted.....

u gave me the pain
i never supposed to bear
u made me alone in this world
and not even bothered to hear...

how mean u r, how cruel u r
its shame on me that i loved u
its like expecting from a stone
that he will love u too....

now u go to hell
and let me live my life my way
u will be the biggest mistake of my life
and i wont forget it in anyway...

hmmm next is earthquake

the hard firm ground shivers beneath me
i shake from head to toe
is it so hard for you to see
that is earthquake is scaring me

i look to see you turn about
and and run as i watch
you leave me behind all alone
you go on with your life
while i die

topic- pencils

up in the attic
what do i see
dust and webs
all over the place

boxes and boxes
full of great memories
pictures and scrapbooks
of vacations

a smiling one-year-old
a bubbly- three year old
a jump rope with a child of seven
12 and on the way
to the movies alone

13 and 14 filled with smiles
16 with her first boyfriend
17 a pouty preadult
and alone on prom night

18 brings senior year
with prom again
this with a love
finally tearful graduation

now she gone off
to college alone
away from home
but she remains

in the attic
of an empty home
mother father gone
siblings in college

her shadow calls
for her to come home
and light the rooms
that are always unlit.

next topic- bright red flowers in the snow

the snow is cold beneath pine trees
and colder still the earth below
yet still the blood red flowers bloom
and lie here scattered in the snow

like drops of blood on pure white skin
these perfumed petals do lie
the vines shedding these decorations
as they will until winter's chill does die

next topic: finding a long lost beloved toy

looking looking
forever looking
for a childhood toy
a baby's lover

under the bed
down in the basement
or up in the attic
looking looking
forever looking

next: pizza pie

anybody

toppings of crust
flavour I lust
meat galour
give me give me more
for it i will die
give me my pizza pie

Isolation

stuck in a crowd
with nothing to say
im all alone baby
at the end of the day

my friends are around me
with lots of love
but i dont feel it
not one teeny bit

family says it love me
but doesnt ever listen
why should care
if they dont let me share

stuck in a crowd
with nothing to say
im all alone baby
at the end of the day

ick...
anyway
Topic: stars

I look up at the sky
and there looking back at me
billions and billions of them
stuck in the big bluish black thing

I made a wish on one
i wished for world peace
but now i wish i hadn't cause
now everyones dead...deceased

lol...bosses daughter

Her smile if perfection,
As everyone knows she is something special,
All the guys idolize her,
As everyone wishes she was more open about herself,
She sneaks around,
If her daddy only knew what her and I do in our spare time,
My job would be at stack,
Because I slept with my bosses daughter....

ok stupid i know but eh its all i could come up with

Gay ppl

its been up all day no-ones posted...ill give it a shot

I was walking down the street,
and i walked past a night club.
As i walked through the door
i was greeted with a man hug.

I thought the guy was intoxicated
so i just chukled and pushed him away.
I wanted to get drunk aswell
to help deal with the stress of today.

I went to the bar for a quick drink
before i went out to dance.
I saw the most beautiful women
did i even have a chance?

What happen next you wouldn't beleive!!!
THis girl had her tongue
down this other girls throat!!!
Oh,tonight was going to be fun.

i made my way to the dance floor
feeling a little buzz
Someone grabbed my butt
but i didnt know who it was.

I started dancing with a girl
who quickly pushed away
she was replaced with a man
then i quickly ran away.

I was confused for a moment
then i finaly understood
Once i figured it out
i was out of there for good.

I was scared for life
there was too much man love
I will never forget the day
i walked into a gay club

hmmm...dream vacation

Dream Vaca

so im from cali-for-nia
where can i go
my blonde hair shimmers in the sun
and my tan never goes away

Who cares about school
when you look this good
i model in teh mornings
and play in the sea all day

what place does not have the sun
or the lovely sandy beach
hawaii and florida are my second homes
how about oklansas or maybe texardo

obviously wash DC is out
cause its near the sea
every day is a vaca
for me; Im from cali-for-nia

....

next topic: being in debt (i had to watch like 3 episodes of oprah about debt. *sigh*)

too hard... well how about "tears" which seems to be a common topic for everyone on this site.

whats the next topic?

Topic: reading