Japanese Tanka game

Everywhere you go
Its sweet scent follows, intrudes.
Numberless outlets
Advertise this sugared drug
So bad for you, yet so good!!

Topic: Being bored at a funeral

Look at his old tie
Hasn't done a knot since school
Tapping his foot now,
Tell him later in the pub
To pay attention at mine

Topic: superheroes

Average at first look,
'Till a dash into a booth
Reveals an alter ego;
Fantasic expression of
Man's viewed mediocrity.

computers

I know this smart guy,
He thinks, and hums to himself,
Chimes, winks, tells stories,
Pretty much all day long, then
Sleeps; 'till you push his buttons.

Next topic: favorite shoes

My favourite shoes
Are those that frequently lie
On your bedroom floor
So good of them to unveil
These beautiful latticed feet

Topic: Misunderstanding your feelings

I know I love you;
My stomach is turning and,
I have a fever.
Unless, of course, it's typhoid,
It's so hard to tell sometimes.


Perspective

Your thoughts live in me
Converge with mine. Mind tunnel
Walls, meeting your light
At the end of my darkness.
Diversity unifies.

Hypochondria

The shades are drawn taut.
A silence of dark unease;
The mental battle.
Certain death is upon me,
And yet here I still remain.

Holding your breath underwater

Bubbles bleed upwards,
I keep count: ninety-one, ninety-two ...
The record is close;
Bursting gasping and coughing,
From the pool; alas too soon. :bawling:


Next topic: Babysitting

Could always do this.
Opening my eyes was hard.
Lying on the floor
Blind world of stifled movement
Alone. A kind of freedom.

Topic: distorted glass in a window pane

She grew up learning
To read Jane feverishly
By it's prism-light;
Warped Zinnias, water-stained.
Rain river dips, hesitates.

next topic: not taking the serious seriously

I laughed at my pain
Fractured glass, littered carpet
Sliver hit my arm
Sliced a thoroughfare through flesh
I laughed at the lack of blood.

Topic: An Unusual Kind of Salad

Chocolate flakes on
Lettuce, tomato, basil;
Add a french dressing;
Not to everybody's taste,
Not really to mine either!


Next topic: Babysitting (seeing as it got skipped last time)

Heavy as a frown
Time squeezes by grudgingly;
Paid to brave chaos,
And wipe noses of other
People’s Pride and Joys.

Next topic:
dandelions

Skyscrapers, yellow
Helicopter blades static
On the helipad
Bending in the wind. Natures
Heliocentric structures.

Topic: Cooking with red chillies

It burns my mind's eye,
more than it scorches my tongue.
Still, I am tempted,
now, to take another bite
of red chillies in the pan.

Next topic: walking the dog

I twist the leash tight,
Around my hand; this mongrel beast,
Pulls so forcefully.
Still, who am I to keep him,
From a pedigree in heat.


Next topic: Hayfever.

Nose and eyes battle
With vital fertility;
A days undoing,
An unraveled mood drowning
Midstream of Spore River.
:D

Next topic: Salt Peanuts

Bird puffs his round cheeks
Dark suit, dark shades, smoke filled room,
Dizzy nods his head
Horned rimmed glasses slide.
Salt peanuts they chant.

Next topic: Central Park

Stuck on Imagine,
I'm traveling slow this time;
Taken in by false
Calm, fake castles; stillness of
Morning still finds its way here.

gnats on a bike ride

Sun had just risen
today was filled with promise
I mounted my bike
the promising day was void
I did not know gnats could kill.





Next topic:Robbing an ice cream store.

He moves for the mint
I motion with the barrel
'The red one' I say
His hands tremble with the scoop
I just hope it's strawberry

Next topic: Elvis

"Hey baby", he says,
His hips gyrating beneath,
neon bright lamé;
But he's not really the King,
Just some Presley pretender.


Next topic: A weird looking cat.

Butterscotch, ragged
Treasure, has lost some stuffing,
One side's whisker-less;
He's a vessel of secrets,
Beloved keeper of dreams.

Next topic:
daydreams

I wander in the
Silence of occupation
With a mind to meet
The joys only it can bring;
Alone all is acquired.

Next topic:
A divided self

I climbed in the box,
He said it wouldn't hurt me,
As he sawed through me;
But now I am in two halves,
And can't find clothes to fit me!


Next topic: Temptation

Allured by the news
that you were rendered double,
and no neck tie serves,
though socks and mittins fit,
undesirous, minus took.

next;
ulcers

Ha. At any rate
Nature's morality
is arbitrary
Or otherwise why this gut
punishment for egg and chips?

Next: war and id

Suppressed desires
Transfigured in agony;
"Mother, mother, come,"
Cries a paralyzed victim
Lost in the trenches.

Parenthood

Blind fancies crumble,
With awakened amazement,
I leave behind the
Chimeras of guesswork, and
Watch the unfolding of hope.

Next topic:
Spring

Warm air brings life in
Sprouting flowers and birdsongs;
A jesting feeling
Pervades my deep encrusted
Aura of wintry weather.

Constellations

Holes punched in darkness;
Forming heroes, gods, kings, queens,
And animal shapes;
Shooting stars dart between you,
But your gaze never varies.

Next topic: Archimedes

Of Phidias' house,
possibly related to
king of Syracuse,
this is someone Euclid would
call superior in youth.

We need you to post a new subject Mililalil XXIV

Sorry!

Horrible oversight

sun corruscated
on a rolling, glaucous sea
He gazed at it all day,
forgot his medication
and died swallowing his tongue

Next: disco boots

Beneath the flood light,
shimmering as magma live,
on the shining floor -
each is lifted in its turn
until the crowd is breathless.

Dante's peak

Desert paused, timeless,
Unblemished and expectant;
Ghosts holding silence
Harvest salt from the flats to
Fuel spectral dreams of verdure.

Next topic:

Space

One walks through it, steps
Into it, without knowing
Where it begins or
Where you come to its closure.
Sometimes it just ends.

Next subject: Cleopatra

Oh! What a needle!
To stitch such a vast country
Together for so long;
But caesars and generals
Curdle the asses milk bath.


Next topic: Furniture polish.