Eight-Word Poems

[mazHur]

fly ,my dove,
above the clouds
keep dry!

[white camellia]

I loved this, WC.


Don't make snowballs
unless
you can run fast ;)

You know, the birds are really cute - they often make big and sudden noises on my windows!



Ride the snowball we
made and run faster!

[CdnReader]

arrival under grey clouds
rain hovers
spirits undaunted

[mazHur]

There's something
on my mind
is it you?

[qimissung]

arrival under grey clouds
rain hovers
spirits undaunted

rain hovers
preparing to sing
its' soothing
lullaby

[alakungfu]

destructive tendencies
sluice and surrender
shadowy crepe dreams

[CdnReader]

pale grey rain

creates mazes


through the sunshine

[mazHur]

ultimately
it stops raining
mazes transform
into flowers.

[Silven]

No peace,
No lease!
get out!
release.

[mazHur]

chaos won't end
peace won't prevail
until death.

[alakungfu]

rush hour traffic
blocking the western
access ramp

[alakungfu]

rush hour traffic
blocking the western
access ramp



Sorry, I didn't think it posted the first time.

[mazHur]

access ramp
protected by silken tuft
prevents jams

[qimissung]

traffic jam
strawberry jam
prefer the latter

[ampoule]

Clawless cat
kneads my stomach
like a pillow

[mazHur]

clawless crayfish
crawls on the creek
constantly crying.

[CdnReader]

i feel him
here,
there,
and
all around

[mazHur]

i feel him
here,
there,
and
all around

what the heck
are you waiting
for then?

[CdnReader]

unpack!
organize!
shop!
study!
no time for love

:(

[mazHur]

No time for love?
Why were you born?

[dramageek]

I was born that
I might bring change

[mazHur]

Sure? have we changed
from apes to humans?

:)

[qimissung]

what the heck
are you waiting
for then?:lol:

love all around,
feel it,
can't find it!

[mazHur]

love all around,
feel it,
can't find it!

how sad!
You definitely need
a boost up.;)

[qimissung]

I flit
I float
a red balloon
flying

[alakungfu]

I'd leave Casanova
if I found my Romeo

[mazHur]

I gotta go
my Juliet
mustn't keep waiting!

[dramageek]

Sure? have we changed
from apes to humans?

:)

love changes the world, if you let it.

[mazHur]

love changes the world, if you let it

Who wrote,
'Love's Labor Lost',
Love's Labor Gained'?:)

[rtc143]

color of the sunset
catches my colored eye

death is upon us
Look! its over there

[Uncle Lar]

"I wonder, where
is the right Thing now?"

(Uncle Lar)

[mazHur]

"I wonder, where
is the right Thing now?"

(Uncle Lar)

For you
to go right
wake all night!

[CdnReader]

Wind and cold rain
Blow my love away

[mazHur]

Wind and cold rain
Blow my love away

remember someone
you hotly love
to stay warm :)

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Members,
A stormy night,

I am out,My Umbrella?

[alakungfu]

What facts
disturb the hotizon
of our awareness?

[firefangled]

mornings
the shy thief
moon
encounters
pale sun

[alakungfu]

The archer's arrow
ricochets
to stay time's onslaught

[Uncle Lar]

How does one raise
a new child today?

[alakungfu]

Review

risk is the new nonchalance,
and adrenalin, risk

[paperleaves]

picturesque America
ghosts, gasoline, and cigarettes
dancing together

[alakungfu]

facade
of a viscous
shifting
about face

[Cellar Door]

universe waits
the world holds its breath--

anticipation

[Uncle Lar]

"Open the doors of perception
and see more."

(Uncle Lar)

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"When the doors of perception are cleansed,
man will see things as they truly are, infinite."

(William Blake)

[wilbur lim]

The building collapses
With screams and heinously
Everywhere.

[kiz_paws]

love allows me
the comfort of
being myself

[mazHur]

love allows me
the comfort of
being myself

being myself
without you
hardly makes
me, Me!;)

[kiz_paws]

I.
It takes many snowflakes
to make a snowball

II.
So join a cause
that you believe in

[mazHur]

1.
true,
one sparrow
does'nt make spring'
flock together!

2.
Nano-particles
combine
to make
a bigger
cosmic entity.

[mazHur]

flowers bloom
bulbuls sing
stars twinkle
for YOU!

we miss you
get well soon
Canadian Reader!

[kiz_paws]

Nano-particles
combine
to make
a bigger
cosmic entity.Loved it, Maz! :)

Cold landscapes
barren fields
but you found me. :)

[Epistemophile]

this one's called 'a comedy in five acts':

"i love you"
"i love you"

the end

[white camellia]

Words are not
enough for your
eroding absence.

[Epistemophile]

Don't chase the shadows
That are chasing sparrows

[white camellia]

Nay, the mere resemblance
shadows bear
gave comfort.

[Epistemophile]

shadows beget shadows
endlessly
thoughts upon thoughts
thoughtlessly

[white camellia]

Caught shadows melt
in a cup of coffee

[Epistemophile]

WC, you're witty!


molten shadows freezing fast
fairytales from the past

[white camellia]

You are witty and imaginative.



My brother mailed me
the wizard of oz.

[kiz_paws]

You spoke

I noticed
You winked

I melted

[alakungfu]

Margin of Error Defined

latitude
of creative dimension
inverse derivative theoritically assigned

[firefangled]

which searches
for which
the night and day

[mazHur]

Life expends
itself like days
followed by nights.

[alakungfu]

Marked

column of wrung or mitigated circumstances blot the moon

[Epistemophile]

God once said
something
presently i forget it.

[amanda_isabel]

you will wait and surrender until you recall.

[alakungfu]

I've riches
commandeered,
but wealth will elude me

[qimissung]

wealth, my betrothed;
I am a lover scorned

[kiz_paws]

You can't be caught
if you don't jump :nod:

[alakungfu]

The End of Fable

Chester landed out of reach
on all fours.

[Babyguile]

On my pedestal:
Reason for life?
Art? Murder.

[mazHur]

Life?
Strict Elemental arrangement.
Death?
Disarrangement of Elements.

[Dark Muse]

Golden blue
burn the skies
with setting sun

[white camellia]

Thought the setting sun,
days of youth, nevermore

[Dark Muse]

A raven flies
bearing dead souls
through darkness

[mazHur]

Lets not talk
of Minos,
his spirit roams.

[Dark Muse]

Light of flame flickers
within a dancers eye

[kiz_paws]

A beautiful thought
wrapped up
in your smile :)

[Dark Muse]

Sweetly sing
Nightingale
songs of
love and woe

[firefangled]

Behold the Sweet
and ragged
soul of peaches

[Dark Muse]

Languid
beneath the trees
a cool Autumn
breeze

[alakungfu]

rife protection
in complements,
the pursuit of preys

[Dark Muse]

Waiting
forever
within the space
of a day

[the appletree]

Remember one thing:
tears are hilarious
in retrospect.

[alakungfu]

class slated for tomorrow
knows more
better off

[ampoule]

The trifle
stands ready
for the spoon
yum

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Members,
There were only 'if's and 'but's,
Like Life.

[alakungfu]

The sherry
waits poised
on the tongue
numb

[Dark Muse]

Cherry blossoms
like the stroke
of a brush

[firefangled]

Amontillado
her sweet fingers
caress my waiting tongue

[alakungfu]

Striking Paranoia

reason for seeing
incentive to stop
rexclusive preclusivity

[Dark Muse]

Sweetness,
upon thy lips;
forbidden the
poisioned kiss

[RG57]

Time
Is no more
No less
Than time

[alakungfu]

lipstick
on the chairman's glass
half past late

[firefangled]

backwards runs
watch my dear,
late am I

[Dark Muse]

What was
that ruby
drop
falling
from ether

[kiz_paws]

Waiting
forever
within the space
of a day
I love this one, well done, Muse! :thumbs_up

[PrinceMyshkin]

Sweetness,
upon thy lips;
forbidden the
poisioned kiss

Dark, I was late getting to read this and I want you to know that I admire it a lot! In addition to the thought I like the half-rhyme of lips and kiss.

[alakungfu]

How spent
the figure
of endless
troubled
years?

[Dark Muse]

Thank you Kiz and Prince

Stillness settles
over the mind
unmoving
in time

[alakungfu]

virtual reticence
revives the ken
in random pride

[Dark Muse]

Burst of color
in honeyed light
sky afire

[alakungfu]

sense the vaccuum invading,
fulsome quiet
falls away

[Dark Muse]

Translucent threads
illuminated
in decent
of Salome's
dance

[symphony]

I can't see histories
in black and whites

[wagravity]

JUICE

Grape,
Cranberry,
Apple,
Orange,
I WANT SOME JUICE!!!!

[Pendragon]

live
die
wonder
why
reaper
appears
life
withers

[alakungfu]

deliver the offal news
in deliberate restitution chic

[Dark Muse]

Death come sweetly
steal me
with a kiss

[JBI]

The drip of rain
on the window pains

[JBI]

Quite night:
wind howls;
alone; silence;
hissing fear.

8 is too many, 5 would be more of a challenge.

[alakungfu]

poverty speaks,
misery scowls,
guilt reeks,
owls
haunt

[alakungfu]

an Amoral
person
will sell
their own smile

a Beautiful
person
will shelf
their own dream

an inexorable
Messenger
will live
their own account

[Dark Muse]

I have lost my soul
among ocean
waves

[alakungfu]

live
and let heed
the starving staid souls

[Pendragon]

Did you die?
You've been gone
so long...

[alakungfu]

teacup on a saucer
nativity on a dais

[Dark Muse]

Scented breath
stirs the air
tingling my flesh

[alakungfu]

Knock Out

left alone,
nothing
but rambling
ambsace
and whim

[Dark Muse]

What more
can I do
but wait
still

[Dark Muse]

She sold
truth
in a cup
of lies

[Silas Thorne]

Your lies angrify me
Blood chokes me bitterly

;)

[Dark Muse]

Bitter is the drink
which I must swallow

[Silas Thorne]

Blood-drenched and battered
clutching cruel flames for comfort

[blp]

It's still too early
to have lunch, girly

[blp]

Tea poured
like a slow leak in reality

[Dark Muse]

Death
a sweet song
lulls one
to sleep

[alakungfu]

Resolve


Might darkness forlorn smite true
Sense of purpose

[mazHur]

I Died
In My dream;
Woke Up
A L I V E!

[Dark Muse]

The taste of life
like soil
from Earth

[Silas Thorne]

What price this blood?
What price this land?

[Dark Muse]

Lethe let me forget
E V E R Y T H I N G
I ever knew

[Silas Thorne]

Fly
on the wings of a murderous
dove.

Halt there, citizen!
Your carbon-copy smile
stings me.

[alakungfu]

Lift your lips
Soft satin wings
Reach mine

[qimissung]

when wings that fly collide,
must we die?

[Silas Thorne]

there where we move
and touch
are monsters

[LadyW]

Catch some tears,
From his lashes.
And sleep.

[JacobF]

cute dumb eyes
slender tail wagging
ribs exposed

[JacobF]

when wings that fly collide,
must we die?

I love this.

[Silas Thorne]

my parched throat sings out
for an icecream

[Dark Muse]

Such bitter
tears we
cry over
our lies

[mazHur]

Only Love
Can Make
Your Lives
Eternally Smile.

[alakungfu]

fear of love
fear of brine
not tears

[Dark Muse]

We dance
upon graves
every day
and night

[alakungfu]

Sear these lips shut
that wisdom abandon them

that words' ways no longer
escape at will

warranted
or not at all
thick
but hollow.

[qimissung]

Thank you JacobF.

[qimissung]

I hold my breath,
lest you lose yours.

[Dark Muse]

They wore
flowers
and we watched
they danced

[alakungfu]

1.
When Caesar was chagrined
marked force never held.

2.
Whichever way,
have I already followed him willingly.

[qimissung]

Divide your food-
that way we conquer hunger

[alakungfu]

Silver Medal Stake

Salisbury steak
sizzled in refrain
an acquired taste

[Silas Thorne]

Where the page breaks
you can put words.

[alakungfu]

Treasurehunter

true trusty trysting traveller
tricked, tried, tripped, trimmed

[alakungfu]

Sorry, posted twice by accident.

[blp]

Mel Gibson
pitched a picture
script from scripture

[blp]

Whether in love
or out,
we have fallen?

[alakungfu]

Tryst or tempest
Twists the answer.
Trust lies.

[mazHur]

What
Appears
True
May
Have
Been
False
Once.

[firefangled]

how long
will you wait
for your echo

[kiz_paws]

Mel Gibson
pitched a picture
script from scripture
:thumbs_up Hot damn, thats good! :nod:

If you fall down
learn
from the mistakes

[LauraS]

Unabashed jubiliation
Unrestrained exultation
Bodhiharta wags his tail

[Il Penseroso]

pupil of sun
blinking, wedged between
thought rocks

[alakungfu]

Shades of Maroon

ashes of violets
discovering
salts of the earth

[mazHur]

Farewell!
Dear Canadian Reader
To Your Eternal Journey!

[Dori]

(A few words I jotted down last year came to mind---exactly eight too! How lucky...)

Frozen Willows

There stood ice sheathed behemoths---
Nature's wintry chimes.

[alakungfu]

Twilight

silhouette
shrouding the sheltered
shrivelled season of shade

[Dark Muse]

I bite my tongue
to taste the
blood

[mmaria]

Eyes of sparkling love
lips of foaming verses

[Dori]

Inspired by the blue cheese I just ate:

_____________________________________

Heartbroken, she collapsed---
Like crumbling blue cheese.

[Il Penseroso]

Black boned
and string ligamented
marionetters play alone

[mazHur]

Do me a favor
kiss my thirsty lips,

[alakungfu]

reclusive and raunchy
caustic candidates
wrote rave reviews

[Dark Muse]

I live and die
in the same
breath

[kevinthediltz]

The weight of the earth
on one shoulder.

[mazHur]

live in the moment
count not your moments

[Eugenie]

so afraid
yet longing
for a great adventure.

[alakungfu]

Life of Hart Core Knocks

constant crown of reference
found in due study

[Eugenie]

roughened hands
kneading the bread.
Life sustained.

[mazHur]

Give Me Something
never mind
your poisoned
Kiss.

[kevinthediltz]

All these things
mean nothing
next to you

[a_little_wisp]

Sip the tea
Of life -
Don't chug.
Savor.

[alakungfu]

Suffice it to think
a little off key.

[kiz_paws]

Sip the tea
Of life -
Don't chug.
Savor.That is really sweet, I like it!

Actually, I like all the little poems that have been popping in here! Good job, everyone. :nod:

[kevinthediltz]

Looking towards the heavens
but leading into hell

[Silas Thorne]

Damn last night's curry hellburn!
Where's the toilet?

[Eugenie]

Whispering,
friend or foe?
My heart is trembling.

[mazHur]

strong guts
Mexicans, Indians
Dandi cut chillies
Okay!

[alakungfu]

Frame of Credence

obsolete gods
peeking at my
obsessive little deeds

[mazHur]

If Deeds Mattered
Fate Wouldn't Bring
Us Sufferings

[alakungfu]

Sufferings, striplings
Enclosed by the strength
Of regrouping

[mazHur]

sufferings grow
and grow until
their feeling vanishes.

[Dark Muse]

We speak
low whispers
on long winter
nights

[Eugenie]

hot tears, mine
cold heart, yours
the end.

[Dark Muse]

I smell the rain
on a Sunday
afteroon

[alakungfu]

Vent not your wisps
Upon my unruly head..

[Monamy]

Telling you
about me
never felt so Hard

[jekan blazer]

arctic foxes are beatiful...
and so is ladyw!

[Monamy]

Freedom,
Sanity,
...Void?
Together, it is Evil!

[alakungfu]

Cleft of angels,
cleft of angels,
posed surrender!

[qimissung]

you choosing the
wrong road-
stardust turning rust

[mazHur]

What is better?
A woman
Or a Houri?

[Dark Muse]

Heathen souls
dance naked
pure and without
sin

[alakungfu]

grim review
craft of angels
or
malicious occupation

[mazHur]

clad in
celestial light
houris sparkle
with virginity.

[breathtest]

meteor strikes
we all become
cave men again

[qimissung]

lovely summer, take
my hand
dance with me

[mazHur]

Let us dance
and swing
with the music!

[qimissung]

your fingers trail
a tenderness
that I
inhale

[alakungfu]

my spirit stumbles
in your implausible
spoken arena

[alakungfu]

a
stenciled
cloud of thought
lines
my world

[mazHur]

My lips
are sealed
I talk
in panto.

[alakungfu]

Hedonistic nymphs
Bear my glee!
Play on
Sylph!

[alexar]

Cloudy morning.
A little breeze troubles the leaves.

[miyako73]

from now to eternity
is many slow afternoons.

[alakungfu]

Cloudy morning.
A little breeze troubles the leaves.

I like that a lot.

[alexar]

hey, thanks! :)

[alakungfu]

Pseudos in the morning,
Kudos in the evening.

[miyako73]

the doorknob,
still,
rusting,
locked,
moves and opens.

[mazHur]

doorknob
got stuck
can't get in
or out!

[wron]

For given
To endure
In fit
Full silence

by
Lyn Vaus

[alexar]

why do bright things rust,
and colours fade?

[Buh4Bee]

Seasons change, the leaves fall, winter calls eternity.

[alakungfu]

leverage makes the heart
grow fonder
like snowflakes


Wry Luck

dream bombshell
once in a lifetime
sweet tranjectory

[alakungfu]

calculated love
exonerated luck
in manner of fretting

[alakungfu]

Film
Throwing out stars
And their legacy too

[JacobF]

your foolproof canoe
sinks
over forests and fumes

[alakungfu]

series of eight -word poems and haiku:


Millenium Annual


- Seasons of Youth


Aurora's Highlights

contrived accents
in Being accrued
recall doubt shed


Scrambling Mystery

periwinkles laugh
winking cues in the moonlight
of Hel's wand's defeat


- Seasons of Age


Timeless Fall of Icarus

tumble through clouds
discarded mount collapsing
hard bed


Time Less Fall

Pandora's credit
believing age-worn adage
a bird in the hand

[Indy]

The horror, you're dead yet my love lives.

[Indy]

Tears dew,
Morning grass;
Remnants of sorrows past.

[PoemsEulogy]

Pink glitter
Falls over giggles,
And blushing cheeks.

[Dark Muse]

Dead
I am the one
Underneath
the gun

[Abs]

Four years
- not seasons -
passed,
still I hated.

[Dark Muse]

Where my roses
may fall
in scented
rains

[mazHur]

Where
The Petals
Fall
There
My Eyelids
Wait.

[Dark Muse]

Eyelids flutter
gentle butterfly wings
under rose powder

[alakungfu]

A

sense

of

humour

is

an

admission

of…

[PoemsEulogy]

Love and hate
Trade places
So very swiftly.

[alakungfu]

like they were caught
in an elevator door

[balehead]

Never realising the change
until the end begins

[Modigliani]

like a shade
he wanders Paris by night

[alakungfu]

Remember,

a little calculation

goes a long way


A little rough calculation

evens out a pace


A little distance

smoothes a wist

Prohibition Day


And, a long story

pays out in claims

[Modigliani]

like a shade
he wanders Paris by night

She beckons him
a memory from a dream

[Dark Muse]

Her eyes
penetrate
the depths
of my soul

[Modigliani]

like a shade
he wanders Paris by night

She beckons him
a memory from a dream

shrouds of cigarette smoke
follow in his wake

[Modigliani]

like a shade he wanders
Paris by night

She beckons him
a memory from a dream

shrouds of cigarette smoke
follow in his wake

blue the coils
like the mantle of disquiet

[DanielBenoit]

As ambiguous a smile as the Mona Lisa

[Silas Thorne]

The rain, fingers trailing over skin.
Cover me.

[AdoreroDio]

"do not forget me"
she whispered...
long forgotten.

[AdoreroDio]

Hail King...
Head off!...
Anarchy!
A brief history.

[AdoreroDio]

Sunday
arguments resolved
beautiful dresses
then Monday comes