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Tomasque

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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #270 on: April 17, 2021, 01:34:44 am »
Prompt: Sunset
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #271 on: April 17, 2021, 11:39:04 am »
Screw the Sunset!
My life will never end!
Many more to met!
And gardens to tend.

EDIT: God that's awful.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #272 on: April 18, 2021, 12:41:39 am »
Blood in the west; death of the day.
Stygian crest pierces luminous girth.
Clinging atop, draining away,
Drop after drop, through the pores of the earth.
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The quantum cannonball hits you in the face and misses!
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #273 on: April 18, 2021, 12:47:51 am »
Quote from: EuchreJack on April 17, 2021, 11:39:04 am
Screw the Sunset!
My life will never end!
Many more to met!
And gardens to tend.

EDIT: God that's awful.
Didn't think I'd see you here.  :)

Don't worry. Everyone's first poem is awful.
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The quantum cannonball hits you in the face and misses!
Quote from: ATHATH on August 10, 2015, 08:21:35 pm
Money!
GENERATION grisha5: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #274 on: April 18, 2021, 11:56:26 am »
Quote from: Tomasque on April 18, 2021, 12:47:51 am
Quote from: EuchreJack on April 17, 2021, 11:39:04 am
Screw the Sunset!
My life will never end!
Many more to met!
And gardens to tend.

EDIT: God that's awful.
Didn't think I'd see you here.  :)

Don't worry. Everyone's first poem is awful.

...but it's not my first poem.  Still, it's been about two decades since I've fiddled with poetry.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #275 on: April 18, 2021, 11:57:44 am »
Prompt: Trees
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #276 on: April 18, 2021, 11:40:52 pm »
Winter Hike
Our path winds around through the forest,
with nary a sound in the trees.
But try as they might to ignore us,
I hear one take flight when I sneeze.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #277 on: April 19, 2021, 08:01:30 am »
My dad, hair umbral, fashions for its home a corner
Of our garden. Sun throws greenness
On leaves, its fingers start to yawn beneath
The earth.

My dad, hair edging grey, cocks eye to
Catch what shade its cage of arms provides.
He shows teeth, places sun-tanned hand
On bark.

My dad, beard patched and thatched by silver
Sits among the roots, boots discarded,
Knowing uppermost branches bend beneath
The snow.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #278 on: April 19, 2021, 10:34:43 pm »
Welcome back, Dwarfy. How have you been?


The Estate

In the shadows of the wood,
land I thought I understood,
world of my childhood,
lurks a secret darkness
long sequestered
in that carcass where it festered
on the beautiful and good.

Walk the roads I've walked before,
Through the underbrush explore,
Scour for it shore-to-shore,
till it's been uprooted
- long, uncoiled -
from polluted earth it soiled,
stripped away to plague no more.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #279 on: April 20, 2021, 08:44:01 pm »
Prompt: Archery
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #280 on: April 20, 2021, 08:44:32 pm »
It's quite the thrill!
I scarcely glance away
and three have struck.

The speed - the skill!
But, jealous, you just say
"It's only luck."

Think what you will;
I've seen them forge their way
when they were stuck.

While you are still
content to simply stay
beneath the muck.
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The quantum cannonball hits you in the face and misses!
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Money!
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #281 on: April 21, 2021, 07:12:10 am »
Quote from: Tomasque on April 19, 2021, 10:34:43 pm
Welcome back, Dwarfy. How have you been?

Incredibly busy with my doctorate! Which is why I've not been engaging much with this. But I've been enjoying reading everyone's poems.
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #282 on: April 21, 2021, 03:43:21 pm »
The soldier looks up
The weather is clear
A sound from the air
Shield arm too slow

Death from Afar
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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #283 on: April 21, 2021, 07:50:26 pm »
Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on April 21, 2021, 07:12:10 am
Incredibly busy with my doctorate! Which is why I've not been engaging much with this. But I've been enjoying reading everyone's poems.
What are you studying?
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The quantum cannonball hits you in the face and misses!
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Money!
GENERATION grisha5: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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Re: Poetry Prompts
« Reply #284 on: April 22, 2021, 10:25:13 pm »
Prompt: Dinner
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Quote from: martinuzz on August 04, 2015, 03:23:59 pm
The quantum cannonball hits you in the face and misses!
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Money!
GENERATION grisha5: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
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