Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Write a poem

This challenge involves two steps: 1.) Post a list of five of your favorite words (stay G-rated here, people). 2.) Write a poem that incorporates the previous poster's five favorite words. I'll start the comments with five of my favorite words and then someone awesome can incorporate them into a poem and keep the cycle going...
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8 comments:

  1. Sara GahanMarch 9, 2010 at 7:54 AM

    subscribe
    engender
    lovely
    gumption
    hyperbole

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  2. Chadarryl ClayMay 25, 2010 at 6:15 AM

    Strength and Pride

    Brought over by boats we were sold as slaves.
    Chained to the very land where freedom rang.
    We worked for little on endless hot days.
    There is no comparison to our pain.
    Many decades passed and freedom arrived.
    Excitement was heard throughout the nation.
    Yet still we were ridiculed and chastised.
    It was a civil rights violation.
    A movement sparked from the hearts of people,
    Changing the course of American life.
    It took a while to be treated equal,
    But by the grace of God we got it right.
    So many of my people fought and died,
    But left a legacy of strength and pride.

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  3. Simone BusbyMay 26, 2010 at 7:12 AM

    fetish
    hope
    stupid
    heart
    liberation

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  4. Parker and MarikoMay 27, 2010 at 6:03 AM

    parkour
    what
    sycophant
    debacle
    Parkiko

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  5. Parker and MarikoMay 27, 2010 at 6:16 AM

    Parkiko frollics
    Parkiko romps
    Parkiko cloaks ouselves in Harry's gift
    From Descarte's Rule of Signs.
    The signs and the confusion
    Destroy the parkour synergy.
    What sycophant can make a
    Fool so easily of herself?
    The beginning of the debacle
    Commences and the
    tomfoolery ends.

    Down to business. Triple backhand spring into the Bermuda Triangle. Stick it and be in it to win it. BRING IT ON- BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING

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  6. SamMay 27, 2010 at 6:17 AM

    feign
    classy
    chaos
    existence
    monster

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  7. Raewyn DuvallMay 27, 2010 at 6:22 AM

    deign, render, conspire, frisky, lyre

    He feigned a classy chaos,
    the existence of a monster,
    the terror, it fed,
    the rumor, it spread,
    and nothing could quell the disaster.

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  8. Allison HeadMay 27, 2010 at 6:23 AM

    PAPER PLANES
    It seems
    We never have time for
    Dreams or the littler things.

    Because we're off writing down
    All the things we never did or
    Tried,
    And fold them up and pray
    They'd fly like paper planes
    In the sky.

    Maybe in time
    The words will jump from the page
    In between the imprisoning lines
    And scream ever so loudly
    The things I've been too afraid to say
    All my life.

    There is not enough time to lie with you
    In the deadened grey and listen,
    To tell each other what we've meant to say
    About our aspirations, our fears, our
    Fierce, Passionate Dreams.

    My eyes are screaming and so are my ears
    Of words that my mouth will not release,
    My dreams growing wide and explosively wild,
    Bursting into a specrum of
    Visible sounds and musical light.

    It seems
    I have no time
    For dreams.
    And dreams
    Were the littler things
    That had been forgotten
    Until they were out of my
    Reach.

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