Picture Poetry Contest (...continued...)

Sometimes love is soon forgotten
Here today, tomorrow gone
They made certain theirs got noticed
Love forever carved in stone

a certain beauty
stands beside
him
he who noticed
her before him
desire
most of her entire
and she who saw with him
the kind
requires all of his
attire
in dreams they shire
in days they pier
and forthuitely
together they tide

Our love will live on forever
We know our mortal Fate is dust
Sculpted in stone together
Love's survival shall be must.

Hold me tightly in your arms
While we stand together and muse
Let's delight in double harness
Two bodies in One Soul fuse.

shoeless kings
and jeweless queens
ancient egyptian royals
standing firm
united as one
powerful and loyal

Thank you for your contributions!

Dark Muse The gods watching them in the second to the last stanza and the "stolen" moment in the last stanza were what I remember most.

Pendragon Stone helps us recall their love thousands of years later. Nice presentation in only a few lines.

cacian The first five lines marked by the "beside him" and "before him" sounded very nice to me.

mazHur The dust of our bodies, stability of stone, and the eternity of love are well combined here.

Melanie I liked the "shoeless", "jeweless", "powerful" and "loyal" adjectives. I hope to read more of your poetry.

You all deserve to win. However, I have to pick one. So, the winner is Dark Muse!

Congratulations!

Thank you very much, I will have the new pic up soon

Ok here is your next photo

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandatory...tank-email.jpg

Congratulations Dark Muse! I liked "beneath the ancient skies" that began and ended your poem. Nice touch.

Thank you

The Maul

I left the food court fully fed
feeling a bit like the walking dead
Then sought the way down when I saw
Sharks infesting the escalator pond
So I wandered to the elevator
(I'm no fool !)
But when the doors opened (ding!) before me
I fled helter-skelter from a fiery demon
beckoning me in
Surely the stairwell will be safe
to make my escape, but NO!
slithering everywhere were creepy-crawly snakes
snapping at all who dared to come near
So now I reside at Bed, Bath, and Beyond
and every day feed the sharks at the
escalator pond
Get my exercise racing demons on their way to
the elevators... and hope them snakes
get eaten by concourse alligators

1/25/2013

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Loud noises, huge heights,
No wrongs burn to rights,
The basement's high flood,
The sharks smell the blood.
They wait for us there.
Their teeth slice and tear
Sharper than knives
Extinguishing lives.

Only two entries so far?

I am setting the deadline at Feb 15th

There's water in my basement
I cannot drain it all
So I'm heading down to bail it out
Why do I hear the theme from Jaws?

This one was hard, I really thought each of these was great but I had to pick one winner

YesNo: Loved your use of rhyme in this one. And I thought this line in particular was great "No wrongs burn to rights." Some really good imagery, I really enjoyed this one.

Pendragon: The last line was great, and made me laugh out loud. I enjoyed the playfulness of this one, with the surprise at the end, offering a suspenseful cliffhanger of an ending to the poem.

And the winner is......

tailor STATELY: This was great I loved everything about it. First of all the double meaning in the name was a nice touch, and the reference to the walking dead did earn you bonus points. I really liked the creativity of it, and the mix of darkness with humor. Some really great lines.

congratulations tailor STATELY!!