Obsession
Overwhelmed by the scent of you,
breathless within your presence,
senseless when your fingers brush my skin,
enshrined within your eyes,
suspended between sanity and ecstasy,
surrendering myself to you,
inhale your essence,
only you command my attention,
nothing will keep me from you.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Periodic Table
People studying
Everyting in existence
Raw material
In all you touch or eat
On everything you see
Dictating your genome
Indicating,
Coding
This is
All there is and all there ever will
Be, of
Life and everything in
Existence.
Nice work, everyone! I told you those were fun. We'll let the contest ride until Monday the 10th, then announce a winner.
Gain from gold
or gain from mist,
did them rise from Nothing?
Thanks for your contribution, Axolotl, and welcome back!
about an idea that
resonance finds jad
talent expresses it glad
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it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Endearment,
To tell a lie is to cheat,
no trust we are incomplete,
the love is at a defeat,
a criteria we must not meet,
From the moment we met,
you I will never forget,
you I will never regret,
You I will never upset,
you I will never test,
you I will never jest,
You I will never reject,
My love for you is clear,
my heart I hold you dear,
I always want you near,
In my arms I never fear,
It was a summers day,
I sore you walk by my way,
You looked and said ''hey'',
I thought no way,
can this be true,
out of the blue,
instantly I knew,
I wanted you.
She's So...
She doesn't really know me
In that timeless sense assured
Least of all my poetry
Life's ripostes singly endured
Yet love survives like a tree
5/9/2015
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Examining my flaws and virtues
X-raying my existence
In search for redemption or
Some such assistance.
Through others I grasp for me
Externally validating my soul
Now to look inward and see
To what phantoms I lost control.
Ignorance can sometimes be bliss
Although intelligence is best;
Lies and comfortable illusion
Can put your mind at rest.
Restricted by time and space
It is but a hopeless dance.
Searching for hope or meaning
In this, life's hall of mirrors:
Such is our game of chance.
Okay, Joe wins. Congratulations, Joe, and take it away!
Thanks, Pompey Bum.Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
For the next form, let's go for terza rima.
Your poem has to be in three-line stanzas (tercets) with the rhyming scheme pattern of A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C and so on.
According to the Wikipedia link, you need to end it " with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet".
To make the contest interesting, let's set a minimum of three tercets. So a minimal poem satisfying these requirements will have the rhyming scheme
A-B-A,B-C-B,C-D-C,D
or
A-B-A,B-C-B,C-D-C,D-D
Of course, feel free to go beyond the minimum number of tercets.
Deadline: two weeks from today.
Enjoy
Meditation on Terza Rima
Remember old Dante?
His work in poetry
really upped the ante.
No matter how hard you try,
you will not do it as well
in English, barely a far cry.
As anyone to you will tell -
if they studied Italian by
a candlelight - there are, well,
More rhymes in it than
there are flies in a bar
or cinemas in Cannes,
Allowing you to go far
further and more naturally
into the depths of lunar
Exploration, searching each valley
Of the mind in the darkened alley.
A great (meta) submission to get us started. Thanks, North Star.
As the poem insinuates, English is not as amenable to terza rima as Italian, but that's the fun of this challenge
Lost Tomorrows
My love stood on the edge of light,
within my heart burns his fire,
it is my warmth thorough the night.
Old memories turn to ash on the pyre,
in shadows his fingers perform the crane dance,
we spoke the silent language of desire.
He was an offer for another chance,
on the brink of a lost tomorrow
I swayed within a trance.
He played the music of my sorrow
like a Siren's song it called me home,
his melody I now borrow.
Together over treacherous ground we roam
I write words of life and love in my tome.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Dark thoughts by April’s chilly winds are sown
Though Spring is bright and mostly pleasant here.
The cruelty of humans is well known.
Though I am safely sheltered, many fear,
Which makes me wonder why I’m singled out
At least for now. My worries disappear.
Why test the strength of what it’s all about?
The Gods seem capable to do their will.
So brighten up. It’s Spring. Turn off that pout.
Don’t let those dark delusions have their fill
And waste fresh moments best enjoyed when still.
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