Official DUP NaPo/GloPoWrimo Competition
Anonymous
snuff vi
2 ov 30
[iii]
doll eyes floated in the teacup
winking from scalding peppermint when they surfaced
with a sickening plop;
i licked your irises, swallowed the dilation that devours the cosmos at dawn,
never sated, either ov us ~
... i could suck the accent from your tongue, chew words from
the thick muscle until it falls limp into my mouth
and still hunger, still crave to taste the worlds in your sockets ...
[ii]
i hold hummingbirds captive in the terrarium ov my lungs
feel them flutter anxiously, waiting on a dark call that does not come;
they peck_ furious to breathe your notes, to inhale
the seduction ov your timbre
momentarily quelled by the ripples dancing from where you first
dripped like honey from a razor blade into the center ov my being
[i]
gentle swirls ov counter intuition lap at the gravestones ov my hips,
i let the corpses sleep for tonight...
everyone has skeletons in their cunt
... they don't deserve to rattle their bones in the perfumed aether
& the gyration ov nicotine stained smoke slithering from
the glimmer ov shattered souls;
there is weight in the air,
heady with things unsaid & confessions made in momentary fear
tho they can wait for tomorrow's tomorrow
2 ov 30
[iii]
doll eyes floated in the teacup
winking from scalding peppermint when they surfaced
with a sickening plop;
i licked your irises, swallowed the dilation that devours the cosmos at dawn,
never sated, either ov us ~
... i could suck the accent from your tongue, chew words from
the thick muscle until it falls limp into my mouth
and still hunger, still crave to taste the worlds in your sockets ...
[ii]
i hold hummingbirds captive in the terrarium ov my lungs
feel them flutter anxiously, waiting on a dark call that does not come;
they peck_ furious to breathe your notes, to inhale
the seduction ov your timbre
momentarily quelled by the ripples dancing from where you first
dripped like honey from a razor blade into the center ov my being
[i]
gentle swirls ov counter intuition lap at the gravestones ov my hips,
i let the corpses sleep for tonight...
everyone has skeletons in their cunt
... they don't deserve to rattle their bones in the perfumed aether
& the gyration ov nicotine stained smoke slithering from
the glimmer ov shattered souls;
there is weight in the air,
heady with things unsaid & confessions made in momentary fear
tho they can wait for tomorrow's tomorrow
rowantree
Forum Posts: 217
Thought Provoker
7
Joined 5th Aug 2015Forum Posts: 217
1/30
day collar
These days, I keep on feeling,
over and again,
your middle finger and thumb almost meeting
around my lithe little neck,
that palm upon me, that collar, like lightest armor! -
my windows, I mean eyes, singing you an honest song.
ting, says the leash,
sound that nibbles my ear on its way in...
and the chains, clink, of course I am here
at your heel, your skin - what on earth was I doing
before I met metal's wink?
In my own day, now,
my own breathing,
the day collar holds me
and in its perfect position,
learns my heartbeats
just like you.
My own windchime of a laugh
born under the collar
fell out on the sheets,
fine enough to surprise me;
now, it replays
and I hope you are listening, too,
to the notes you set free.
day collar
These days, I keep on feeling,
over and again,
your middle finger and thumb almost meeting
around my lithe little neck,
that palm upon me, that collar, like lightest armor! -
my windows, I mean eyes, singing you an honest song.
ting, says the leash,
sound that nibbles my ear on its way in...
and the chains, clink, of course I am here
at your heel, your skin - what on earth was I doing
before I met metal's wink?
In my own day, now,
my own breathing,
the day collar holds me
and in its perfect position,
learns my heartbeats
just like you.
My own windchime of a laugh
born under the collar
fell out on the sheets,
fine enough to surprise me;
now, it replays
and I hope you are listening, too,
to the notes you set free.
Thetravelingfairy
Forum Posts: 286
Fire of Insight
15
Joined 12th July 2017 Forum Posts: 286
1/30
Mirage
clear as day, I see you
across a broken yellow line
you are just beyond the horizon
but to me, a foot away
running through this desert land
ocotillos just a blur
catching up to you
is like chasing the moon
I needed you today
you were supposed to stay
now you’ve left me in the dust
I didn’t think it would be this way
maybe if I closed my eyes
let the night finally fall
you wouldn’t be so far
you’d want to come after all
here at last, I stand alone
where you once saw me
you are a mirage
because you’ve disappeared
Unique words: 78
Mirage
clear as day, I see you
across a broken yellow line
you are just beyond the horizon
but to me, a foot away
running through this desert land
ocotillos just a blur
catching up to you
is like chasing the moon
I needed you today
you were supposed to stay
now you’ve left me in the dust
I didn’t think it would be this way
maybe if I closed my eyes
let the night finally fall
you wouldn’t be so far
you’d want to come after all
here at last, I stand alone
where you once saw me
you are a mirage
because you’ve disappeared
Unique words: 78
Amorous_tryst
Forum Posts: 945
Dangerous Mind
16
Joined 12th June 2017Forum Posts: 945
April's Fool
2/30
Ode to 'NaPoGloProWriMo
What I'll write from now 'til May
I hope will be myself
for I have grown far much too weary
to remain upon this shelf
it's my plan to use this time.
to clear out some debris
in hopes that ridding most of it
will help to set me free
Objective 1
I sit in wonder of these poems
composed by those who can
create such beauty with their ink
while mine all seem so bland
it's jealousy and envy
those cur-sed human traits
ones I know if left unchecked
will bring a wret-ched fate
chase these demons from my thoughts
by taking pen in hand
release this misery welcomed not
to dwell within my land
#NaPoWriMo2019
words, 118 unique. 97
2/30
Ode to 'NaPoGloProWriMo
What I'll write from now 'til May
I hope will be myself
for I have grown far much too weary
to remain upon this shelf
it's my plan to use this time.
to clear out some debris
in hopes that ridding most of it
will help to set me free
Objective 1
I sit in wonder of these poems
composed by those who can
create such beauty with their ink
while mine all seem so bland
it's jealousy and envy
those cur-sed human traits
ones I know if left unchecked
will bring a wret-ched fate
chase these demons from my thoughts
by taking pen in hand
release this misery welcomed not
to dwell within my land
#NaPoWriMo2019
words, 118 unique. 97
rosegold
Forum Posts: 58
Thought Provoker
3
Joined 12th July 2017Forum Posts: 58
1/30
unique words: 65
bruised brain
my brain-
it must be speckled
with bruises and holes
scattered deep and wide
across it's soft
vulnerable surface
chipped edges
lining fragile veins
dents and valleys
marks and scars
full of broken, damaged parts
it's sure been knocked around
beaten up inside my head
it's been abused
but it's still alive
still bleeding
and still
fighting
if I could see its shape
outlined on a screen
I wonder
how disfigured would it be?
unique words: 65
bruised brain
my brain-
it must be speckled
with bruises and holes
scattered deep and wide
across it's soft
vulnerable surface
chipped edges
lining fragile veins
dents and valleys
marks and scars
full of broken, damaged parts
it's sure been knocked around
beaten up inside my head
it's been abused
but it's still alive
still bleeding
and still
fighting
if I could see its shape
outlined on a screen
I wonder
how disfigured would it be?
yelluw_always
Haley Quaquaversal
Forum Posts: 141
Haley Quaquaversal
Fire of Insight
5
Joined 24th Dec 2018Forum Posts: 141
Lakeside 2/30
I ring them into the digits
made for pressing eyes, for touch
avows to mold an
earthside
vision, in how I parse the effect
and cause of what makes the turtle
abandon its log, the
clouded
water plops a three-
dimensional sound of murk
straight above as its
shell
is blanketed of depths, can’t help think
the water is what I breathe, as
movement is everything
there.
And the sky high-
lights the ascension of what is
thrown up, displaced,
air-
grains rushes in those spaces like sand
collapses back into his foot
prints. He writes a
mangrove,
their fractal roots jag the foil
of the lake font. Replacement
as color, as a sunset
ginghams
pink with teeth- the angular
vexes of a horizon, these billowed
lips I can read in any
direction.
Here Painted Turtles
fugitive their own lake,
look, look, finery
struck and deeper than ink,
by birthright on their skin, warnings
striated bright, and paid for in past
lessons. There painted is day
navigating
a black protocol
as a fickle flood of re-
collection language
chews
deltas through. War generates
sentences on their necks
I could have
used
to diss the course of being an
empty voice-box. One webbed foot
had lifted slow at my
care-
less furrow upon the air and
roiled their raft of peace. Instinctual
flight of my hands as a
throat.
Untethered, mercy
is the water
gingerly kissing
away
hexes, kissing my curvature
ratios of a crow-thirst for shiny
lexicon, my after-
thought
abandons its relief and compels
the subject to jot backwards;
to refill the vowels of my anti-
presence.
I ring them into the digits
made for pressing eyes, for touch
avows to mold an
earthside
vision, in how I parse the effect
and cause of what makes the turtle
abandon its log, the
clouded
water plops a three-
dimensional sound of murk
straight above as its
shell
is blanketed of depths, can’t help think
the water is what I breathe, as
movement is everything
there.
And the sky high-
lights the ascension of what is
thrown up, displaced,
air-
grains rushes in those spaces like sand
collapses back into his foot
prints. He writes a
mangrove,
their fractal roots jag the foil
of the lake font. Replacement
as color, as a sunset
ginghams
pink with teeth- the angular
vexes of a horizon, these billowed
lips I can read in any
direction.
Here Painted Turtles
fugitive their own lake,
look, look, finery
struck and deeper than ink,
by birthright on their skin, warnings
striated bright, and paid for in past
lessons. There painted is day
navigating
a black protocol
as a fickle flood of re-
collection language
chews
deltas through. War generates
sentences on their necks
I could have
used
to diss the course of being an
empty voice-box. One webbed foot
had lifted slow at my
care-
less furrow upon the air and
roiled their raft of peace. Instinctual
flight of my hands as a
throat.
Untethered, mercy
is the water
gingerly kissing
away
hexes, kissing my curvature
ratios of a crow-thirst for shiny
lexicon, my after-
thought
abandons its relief and compels
the subject to jot backwards;
to refill the vowels of my anti-
presence.
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Forum Posts: 5134
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
154
Joined 9th Nov 2015 Forum Posts: 5134
2/30
A New Waste
There’s nothing and everything traditional
about myself. And even though you bring me
rare and exotic offerings to this table of myself,
of a retentive spirit with suspicions, I sniff
at your lack of knowledge of such cuisine.
I turn to race to the high country for fresh air
and a barn-sour mode of transportation
before my city insides knot. Yet in my flight
I feel the pull as my primitive hunger gets the
better of my expired wanderlust despite your
patrician ignorance. This naked nature’s girl
sick with drink in the wilderness. You know
the lay of the land I was born to, anticipating
it with wandering fingers undoing me, and
a moist mouth to a parched clime yielding.
Clearing all that came before, to lay a new
waste, sending invitations. The mortician.
unique words: 97
#KimAddonizio
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo 2019
A New Waste
There’s nothing and everything traditional
about myself. And even though you bring me
rare and exotic offerings to this table of myself,
of a retentive spirit with suspicions, I sniff
at your lack of knowledge of such cuisine.
I turn to race to the high country for fresh air
and a barn-sour mode of transportation
before my city insides knot. Yet in my flight
I feel the pull as my primitive hunger gets the
better of my expired wanderlust despite your
patrician ignorance. This naked nature’s girl
sick with drink in the wilderness. You know
the lay of the land I was born to, anticipating
it with wandering fingers undoing me, and
a moist mouth to a parched clime yielding.
Clearing all that came before, to lay a new
waste, sending invitations. The mortician.
unique words: 97
#KimAddonizio
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo 2019
thepositivelydark
Forum Posts: 134
Fire of Insight
4
Joined 28th Aug 2013Forum Posts: 134
2/30
and I
Would anyone look for me,
He asked.
Not really, not tonight.
Stuck in a room somewhere -
Like a child about to be scolded,
I looked back at him -
Staring me down.
Air thick with something and I still can't think straight,
"Spill,"
He told me,
And I do.
Just a little bit above the sound of song playing-
I say the sordid,
I say the harsh -
The sprinkle
Of gentle mercies,
The scratched up melodies with it.
And by midnight,
He spills his.
By this moonlight,
Nothing was pretty.
Clothed,
And barer than I have ever
Ever been.
And it hangs around, the way
Everybody wants to jump in the sympathy,
Until they see the reality of it -
The filth of it, the ugly of it.
(The reality of me -
The filth of me -
The ugly of me.)
But he was familiar with it, too
So when the words faded, and throats raw,
We just sat in the silence
And kept our judgements away from the lightening room.
His deep dark chuckle silences everything.
By dawn, we fell asleep.
179 words, 113 unique
#NaPoWriMo2019
and I
Would anyone look for me,
He asked.
Not really, not tonight.
Stuck in a room somewhere -
Like a child about to be scolded,
I looked back at him -
Staring me down.
Air thick with something and I still can't think straight,
"Spill,"
He told me,
And I do.
Just a little bit above the sound of song playing-
I say the sordid,
I say the harsh -
The sprinkle
Of gentle mercies,
The scratched up melodies with it.
And by midnight,
He spills his.
By this moonlight,
Nothing was pretty.
Clothed,
And barer than I have ever
Ever been.
And it hangs around, the way
Everybody wants to jump in the sympathy,
Until they see the reality of it -
The filth of it, the ugly of it.
(The reality of me -
The filth of me -
The ugly of me.)
But he was familiar with it, too
So when the words faded, and throats raw,
We just sat in the silence
And kept our judgements away from the lightening room.
His deep dark chuckle silences everything.
By dawn, we fell asleep.
179 words, 113 unique
#NaPoWriMo2019
Anonymous
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JusTim_
Forum Posts: 171
Tyrant of Words
26
Joined 22nd Jan 2017Forum Posts: 171
2/30
Day Two
It's day two
but really day four hundred ninety two
where my first thought is of you
where my eyes open
and picture your blues
still floating in my dream
desperately I scroll
thru every last page
every scene
still scrambling in my brain
not knowing where we left off
so I begin again
knocking on your door
lost on a road unkown
only hoping to find my way
you offer up a place to stay
and I oblige
your fire simmers against the chill
as our steam it gently sways
and we talk into the night
no questions, no answers, no right
you choose the perfect song
and we dance, and we dance
and we dance
entwined we drift away
Day Two
It's day two
but really day four hundred ninety two
where my first thought is of you
where my eyes open
and picture your blues
still floating in my dream
desperately I scroll
thru every last page
every scene
still scrambling in my brain
not knowing where we left off
so I begin again
knocking on your door
lost on a road unkown
only hoping to find my way
you offer up a place to stay
and I oblige
your fire simmers against the chill
as our steam it gently sways
and we talk into the night
no questions, no answers, no right
you choose the perfect song
and we dance, and we dance
and we dance
entwined we drift away
Anonymous
<< post removed >>
DaisyGrace
Forum Posts: 1392
Dangerous Mind
18
Joined 29th Mar 2017Forum Posts: 1392
2/30
Believers
“Now I’m a believer!
Not a trace
of doubt in
my mind”
rang out from the
backseat.
Little boy voices
mixing with
grownup.
Still unashamed
of their parents’
dancing and
singing
and loving.
Only the occasional
“why are you kissing?!”
As you and I
kissed across the
middle console.
This random,
spontaneous decision
to eat greasy
fried chicken and
mashed potatoes
was probably one of the
best decisions of
the last two months.
A call to
“have the boys ready
at 5:20-ish and we’ll
leave.”
So many smiles
and laughs and
big family
memories
that I want
frozen into time.
Time for them to
stay little,
not big,
for all eternity.
“Not a trace
of doubt in
my mind.”
*******
Quotes at the start and end are from I’m a Believer by Neil Diamond, by way of smash mouth and the Shrek sound track.
Believers
“Now I’m a believer!
Not a trace
of doubt in
my mind”
rang out from the
backseat.
Little boy voices
mixing with
grownup.
Still unashamed
of their parents’
dancing and
singing
and loving.
Only the occasional
“why are you kissing?!”
As you and I
kissed across the
middle console.
This random,
spontaneous decision
to eat greasy
fried chicken and
mashed potatoes
was probably one of the
best decisions of
the last two months.
A call to
“have the boys ready
at 5:20-ish and we’ll
leave.”
So many smiles
and laughs and
big family
memories
that I want
frozen into time.
Time for them to
stay little,
not big,
for all eternity.
“Not a trace
of doubt in
my mind.”
*******
Quotes at the start and end are from I’m a Believer by Neil Diamond, by way of smash mouth and the Shrek sound track.
Anonymous
2 of 30
art in the dark
who knows the story
now shrouded in darkened cavern walls
a tale all but eclipsed
so deeply hidden light cannot follow
where these strangers left their message
in an ancient long ago
millennia in concealment
unnoticed they waited
voices silent
yet speaking volumes to the human condition
using the most basic & simple of connections
touch
hand to hand
crossing time & evolution of life
what once was known
now only a memory
merely assumed
but never lived by us in truth
existing only in history
forever whispered in halls of painted stone
buried within the dust & shadows
of a long forgotten survival
when mere life was a daily battle
and only the strongest would remain
who were these souls
placing palm to rock & leaving their permanent mark
did they know how long it would last
or the questions it would arouse
curiosity
a sense of reaching back
tip to tip
and connecting with those of the past
the art of speaking
without words
a caress in the darkness
assurance
we are never alone
give me your hand
you are heard
Hepcat61
geoff cat
Forum Posts: 1028
geoff cat
Dangerous Mind
33
Joined 27th Nov 2015Forum Posts: 1028
2/30
Morning's Rise – Day Two
Fast running feet on mountain loam,
With baying dog that runs behind,
A wood that tastes like wind and roam,
Like sunlit pools and melon rind.
In brothers’ yelps and screams descend,
Fast running feet on mountain loam.
We raid the dumps, attacks pretend,
For Playboy mags and Styrofoam.
With sun low bent and calls for home,
Through sandstone spires and redneck roads,
Fast running feet on mountain loam,
With hopes of stew and pie “ah ha-mode.”
We wash – “make sure behind your ears”
With snapping towels, and mustache foam,
We pray in rhymes, “sweet dreams” appear,
Fast running feet on mountain loam.
Words: 109
Unique Words: 75
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo 2019
Morning's Rise – Day Two
Fast running feet on mountain loam,
With baying dog that runs behind,
A wood that tastes like wind and roam,
Like sunlit pools and melon rind.
In brothers’ yelps and screams descend,
Fast running feet on mountain loam.
We raid the dumps, attacks pretend,
For Playboy mags and Styrofoam.
With sun low bent and calls for home,
Through sandstone spires and redneck roads,
Fast running feet on mountain loam,
With hopes of stew and pie “ah ha-mode.”
We wash – “make sure behind your ears”
With snapping towels, and mustache foam,
We pray in rhymes, “sweet dreams” appear,
Fast running feet on mountain loam.
Words: 109
Unique Words: 75
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo 2019
The Game of Tag
(Two of 30 -- NaPo/GloPoWriMo 2019)
If I should look
one day
and unable
to find myself,
Slap me,
Please. I promise
to like it,
the pain.
I will ever be
with You only
biding my time.
Soaring and floating
how is it different?
amidst the starlit
universe, I try to wipe
tears from Your eyes
assurance of memories
encouraging no more
no more tears
for it has always been
and been my course
to wait for You
if I got here first.
My love,
I can’t wait to show
You the universe.
_______________________
#NaPoWriMo2019
102 words
73 unique
(Two of 30 -- NaPo/GloPoWriMo 2019)
If I should look
one day
and unable
to find myself,
Slap me,
Please. I promise
to like it,
the pain.
I will ever be
with You only
biding my time.
Soaring and floating
how is it different?
amidst the starlit
universe, I try to wipe
tears from Your eyes
assurance of memories
encouraging no more
no more tears
for it has always been
and been my course
to wait for You
if I got here first.
My love,
I can’t wait to show
You the universe.
_______________________
#NaPoWriMo2019
102 words
73 unique