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

[jajdude]

Thanks. Been away a few days. Just returned to China (from Canada, long flight) to start a new job.

Not sure how to post a picture. Guess I can find out.

[Dark Muse]

There are two different ways you can post a picture. If you find a picture you like online you can right click on the picture, and this box should pop up that says properties are the bottom, and if you click on that, it will give the URL address for the picture, and copy that, than in your comment box in lit net click on the insert image icon and past the web address for the picture into the box that will pop up and than click ok.

Or if you want to use a picture saved on your computer, to post it on lit not scroll down to where it says manage attachments click on that, and than click on browse choose the image in your saved files on your computer, and than click upload.

[jajdude]

[jajdude]

Well the picture turned out ok, bigger than I knew. But there you have it. Thanks.

..perhaps could make it smaller? or just use "zoom" ;;;

[YesNo]

Jim waits for her. The overpass
Lets walkers cross the busy street.
He met her once in someone's class.
This is the last time they might meet.

The cars are busy down below
And keep his mind off other things
Like did he love her. Watch them go.
He knows before his cell phone rings.

She's sorry she won't meet him there.
Hey, that's OK. He understands.
Flights scatter people everywhere:
One takes off, another lands.

From up above their lives pass by
As fast as cars. No time to waste,
But even so Jim wonders why
There's any need for any haste.

[autolycus]

they come, they go:
ages since Ford
and Edison
the hallowed mass
of light and gas
has made the glow
across the board
now seen in heaven

they sell, they trade
the Daimler-Benz
and Toyota
Japanese pride
and Detroit ride
see what was made
we left our tents
and wandered far

they growl, they gleam
range the concrete
prowl asphalt roads
chariots of fire
steel and sapphire
the city's dream
of wheels on street
now overloads

[Pendragon]

It's an endless black ribbon
Full of lights in the night
As people speed by
In their tiny capsules so busy
Whom do they pass
Do they even notice
Humanity passing by with inches to spare
Long hard road leading from nowhere to nothing
With all of eternity somewhere in between

[moonbird]

yellow paint
cutting through the black
the black street
like a sword
or a lightning bolt
fearless

it keeps them away,
they can not pass
its invisible barrier,
the cars
the cars with their horns
with their tires
screaming at me
waiting
in ambush
to strike in silence
in darkness
when i am alone
all alone

but they are not here
not here
i am safe here
safe
here
the clear-cut path
straight and unwavering
through the minefield
to safety
i am safe
here
safe here
on the crosswalk

[Dark Muse]

Neon Heaven

I want to become lost
within your electrolytes
vanishing beneath your neon gaze
upon these halcyon nights.

Give me a taste of your acid
trip so my reality might
start to blur just around
the edges, watching
chemical blues and electrode
red bleeding through.

And I feel the strobes
pulse like a heart beat
dancing in the middle
of the road where the air
is bitter cold infused
with your gasoline
hot as the dragon's breath.

But sleepless
in the sultry air
there is no reason left to care
so sweep me away,
watching my face
a ghost in the glass
make me a hologram
and I will disappear
in a single flash of light.

[The Comedian]

Here's mine:

Glow Sticks

Little linear lights and
Elongated echos
Along the avenue . . .

Accelerated autos:
Shall I compare ya'all to a sunbeam?

All your lights 'r threads and
We retreat behind them.

[mazHur]

Motion
Life
Machines
Science
Marvels
Night
Darkness
Flash
Flood Lights
Flooding streets
Noise
Pollution
Speed
Anxiety
A mad race
Up street
Down Street
No soul around
Heart beats lost
In moving encapsuled rush
Of various types of Steel and Polymer vestibules
Life seems to rest
Yet move
On wheels!

[jajdude]

Hi

Shall I judge now?

5 days or so is enough idle time right?
oo.
Excellent entries everybody. I'm too lazy to do commentary.

The last one, by mazhur, I thought, captured the pic well.

So, next pic.

edit:

DarkMuse and YesNo, enjoyed your writing too.

[moonbird]

Congrats mazhur

[jajdude]

I like this: "Give me a taste of your acid"

[mazHur]

Thanks, jajdude.

I too like this beautiful line"Give me a taste of your acid"

Here is the next picture..