Running Poetry Thread

[Duckherder]

(staying with coffee haiku theme)

Non-dairy creamer
What the **** is it made of?
Nasty chemicals?

What is fat free half and half?
It would be only 'half'
Neither half full or half empty

 

[Tom Bomb]

Prosodeep

Ifnah,

Thenope,

Thereforestalled.

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[Volker Kirstein]

ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (2013)

Makenzie’s running laps
Round and round the central division
Every once in a while a collision
As she baps
Into a wall
She even took a fall
But with every lap
She gives my palm a tap
She’s up to twenty seven
Her steps are getting leaden
Her breath is coming in gasps
Until at last
She’s run herself out
Maybe now she’ll take a nap

 

[Discount Bassy]

Dark Limerick Entry:

My Wendy, now buff and big titted.
It's been many a year since I hit it.
We met in a bar
and had fun in her car.
She left me when I was committed.

Haiku Entry:

Today, a bad day.
Shameful past. Hopeless future.
Day like all others.

 

[Tom Bomb]

There once was a lady from Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu …

I give up.
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[Discount Bassy]

Feeling inspired...here's another one:

Silent truth: immune to desire.
Speak one word: I am a liar.
My intentions protest.
I stare at your breasts.
I think my pants are on fire.

 

[Volker Kirstein]

--- END OF WEEK 2 ---​

Cogratulations to Week 1 winner @S-Bigbottom with "Mother's Milk"!
Results: Poetry Thread Week 1 - Poll Results

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Titles in quotes were submitted untitled, so I assigned them titles. Don't like it? Title your own damned poem.

I don't care if you submit multiple works in a given week.

I don't care if you vote multple times.

I don't care if you vote for yourself.

Entries:

• Poetical sidesteps - @Tom Bomb
• "fat free" - @Duckherder
• Prosodeep - @Tom Bomb
• ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING - moi
• "Lemerick & Haiku" - @Discount Bassy
• "there once was a lady" - @Tom Bomb
• "silent truth" - @Discount Bassy

Offsite Poll Week 2
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[Volker Kirstein]

Brothels​

 

[pie_man_25]

Poetry thread - a haiku

I write poetry
But not very well at all
None of it is good

 

[Skeezix]

German brothels... the higher up you go, the cheaper (and uglier) they get.

 

[Discount Bassy]

A party to go to: disaster!
Young crowd and the walls closing faster.
A half-baked crock
to scatter the flock...
My ashen hue now alabaster.

 

[Discount Bassy]

A self-deprecating rap entry (mainly because I haven't seen one here yet) from my unwritten, unrecorded and unpublished, multi-paraffin wax-cylinder recording: "The Completely Avoidable Fiasco of Appearing to Be Wise":

Not a lover. Not a fighter.
Just a rhyme reciter.
Dollar Menu guru
and a wanna-be writer.

I've got a pellet gun,
Shooting at the sublime
in a dumpster full of wishes
and I'm traveling time.

Kung-Fu haiku.
A born obfusticator.
A brother from another mother.
Undercover percolator.

I get played like Monopoly pieces.
Baltic Ave. slumlord
Trading tens for Reese's.
I wonder if that little dog drops silver feces?

Cornerstone bone:
the rock that can't be split.
I'm spreading menace, intrigue
and some mysterious, deep poopie.

Mind like a shredder.
Making paper mache.
My metaphorical pinatas:
knocked to hell with one hit.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Haiku Entry:

Good things can be small.
Great haikus shine like diamonds.
This one, not so much.

 

[Tom Bomb]

 

[Discount Bassy]

 

[Tom Bomb]

Poor pup.
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[Discount Bassy]

A shadow in darkness.
Lost in joy. Closer each breath.
Blindness is no cure.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Unacknowledged facts.
Quiet, unwitnessed trees fall.
Truth entanglement.

 

[Discount Bassy]

Trying to lose wait?
Exercise futility!
Results are uncertain...

 

[Discount Bassy]

Crisis burns brightly.
Reason obscured by shadows.
Flaws shine like diamonds.