Group Poem

Category: Writers Block

Post 1 by HauntedReverie (doing the bad mango) on Tuesday, 24-Jul-2007 19:55:23

Here's my idea, and we can see how it goes.
We each put in a random word, and set the deadline for say, this time next week. We each submit a random off the wall word, and by deadline, anyone who wants to participate creates a poem, using all the random words submitted to the board.
I'll put up one I've done at camp this summer.
So, let me know whatcha think. Just something to cure boredom.
and I know, if I can make a poem out of a list containing, "Psycadellic scandelicious blofish," lol, it can't be that hard.
So, word submission deadline is Tuesday night if you want to join in.
oh, we started with another poet's line, but *shrugs. can't be bothered wit hthat here.

Made of fire
(7-10-07)

We are people made of fire
sonia sanchez

We are all insignificant,
like a rotting potato, or an old rusty cadillac.
We are all chalk drawings on a blackboard,
scandalicious blofish in a psycadellic halucination.

We are a roaring beast out of control,
we are destinies which can't be shaped,
we are the abandon of a summer night,
we are the worry in a young girl's eyes.

We are a soldier's bloodstained pants,
once blue fabric colored a sickening browning red.
We are a victim's fearful face that knows death is approaching.
We are an invective scene.

Don't you cry dear child, dear child
for innocence is always alluding our fumbeling fingers.
Don't you weep sweet mother, sweet mother,
for flames purify the earth and make way for new birth.

Look through an old photo album and see,
the silent still stories written in faces and histories.
Those of our future, our present and past,
those that are fleeting, and those that will last,
strangers or friends, they're all the same.

We are all random words strewn across a creased up paper,
we are all autumn leaves left to lie upon the wind.
We are all falling raindrops, falling teardrops left to rise,
to continue a cycle of life and death, a never ending play.

word List:
potato, insignificant, cadillac, chalk, blackboard, scandelicious, psycadellic, blowfish, pants, knows, blue, invective, eyes, soldier.

so, there it is.

Post 2 by moyzey (i'm posting? huh?) on Thursday, 02-Aug-2007 10:23:22

I like this idea, reckon it could be hilarious

Post 3 by ~*Dark_Light*~ (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 03-Aug-2007 12:04:10

Agreed, I too like this idea.

word to add to the list: whirlwind